This special box set, Jason Simon: Three Videos, includes a booklet with an in depth essay by media scholar Cynthia Chris.
"More than any other media artist, Jason Simon explores the inner reaches of American consumer culture in ways that are useful...
Collection: Single Artist Compilations Tags: consumer culture, media analysis, performance, television
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"Third Known Nest is a collection of nine short works completed approximately one per year from 1991 to 1999. Interwoven with nine quotations from some of my favorite writers, the eighteen short entries in Third Known Nest function as an intimate...
Collection: Single Artist Compilations Tags: lgbtq, literature, music
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VDB is proud to present Kent Lambert Videoworks: Volume 1. Lambert is a Chicago-based musician and media artist. His creative output primarily consists of vocal driven art-pop music and pop-inflected video art made from repurposed industrial...
Collection: New Releases, Single Artist Compilations, Compilations Tags: culture jamming, humor, multimedia, technology, videoworks
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The five videos featured here investigate video as a tool for storytelling and the construction of alternate identities. Ultimately Latham concludes that video is an unsatisfactory and cumbersome tool useful only for the creation of dislocated...
Collection: Single Artist Compilations, Early Video Art Tags: body, feminism, video history, videoworks
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The work of Dani Leventhal explores the complicated space that exists between decay and renewal, intimacy and disconnection and the sacred and mundane. The six pieces that comprise Dani Leventhal Videoworks: Volume 1 each examine these ambiguous...
Collection: Single Artist Compilations, Compilations Tags: animals, body, death and dying, diary, expedition/travel, family, jewish, lgbtq, middle east, religion/spirituality, sexuality, youth/childhood
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In Les LeVeque Videoworks: Volume 3, Les LeVeque explores time and the way in which it can be manipulated to affect the communication of emotion. In the first video, pulse pharma phantasm, LeVeque collapses 9 different pharmaceutical commercials...
Collection: Single Artist Compilations, Compilations Tags: consumer culture, film or videomaking, found footage, gender, hollywood, image processing, media analysis, politics, television, videoworks, war
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Les LeVeque’s early works, featured on this compilation, demonstrate his fascination with slowing things down in order to see them better. Found footage, often of key historical moments, are digitally re-edited, slowed down, or encoded into ASCII to...
Collection: Single Artist Compilations Tags: consumer culture, image processing, media analysis, videoworks
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Utilizing strategies of condensation and re-assemblage, these three pieces take Hollywood classics as their starting point. The re-editing process shifts and displaces old meanings until new ones are made.
Collection: Single Artist Compilations Tags: found footage, image processing, videoworks
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