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  Fashioned out of home movies recovered from failing hard drives, this glitch-art video makes comparisons between different forms of memory - suggesting that, while error and decay may keep us up at night, they might also be the way we put our...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: found footage, image processing, memory, technology, youth/childhood |
We have come to this place of meaning together, celebrating our un-remaindered completeness. Yet, in our wake endures a long procession of stowaways: misspoken sounds we unconsciously omit, the limitations of our alphabet, the ignored gaps of an...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: found footage, image processing, media analysis, technology |
Decidedly low-tech, this optical abstraction begins with a shot of an aluminum reflector inside a lamp; a lightbulb in the shot’s center flicks on and off. As the video plays on, nearly identical shots are superimposed, but at a steadily...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: chicago art, image processing, photography |
Strike Anywhere is a video essay that takes as its point of departure Swedish "Match King" Ivar Kreuger, whose privatization of financial crisis management strategies bears a direct relation to late-20th Century policies implemented by...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: blu-ray, consumer culture, documentary, european film/video, history, labor, marxism, politics |
tryphon: three sounds is a candid portrait of the artist Thomas H. Kapsalis (b.
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: art history, artist spaces, blu-ray, chicago art, documentary, interview, portrait, visual art |
In a form of subversive media terrorism, BLO operatives purchased talking Barbie and G.I. Joe dolls, both of which were programmed to speak crude cultural clichés. The dolls were then taken to the BLO headquarters where “corrective surgery” was...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: culture jamming, gender, humor |
A poet of the New York School in the early- and mid-’60s, Vito Acconci moved toward performance, sound, and video work at the end of the decade. His work moved in a different direction in...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: architecture, conceptual art, installation, interview, performance, poetry |
Chantal Akerman gained international recognition with her three and a half hour masterpiece, Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), which portrays a housewife’s dull existence and eventual violent action. She has...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: european film/video, feminism, film or videomaking, film theory, interview |
Laurie Anderson began as a downtown gallery artist, specializing in photography. She soon moved from creative to critical work as a writer for Art News and Art in America. She returned to the art world, making groundbreaking...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: art criticism, conceptual art, interview, music |
