In the work of Les LeVeque we encounter insights born - not only the formal strategies deployed, (condensation, expansion, reversal, mirroring...) - but of the ecstatic destruction of the reified "realities" of the consciousness industries, the purveyors of the spectacle. They remind us - and even now we are in need of that reminder - that these "realities," presented as eternal as they are in fact shallow are, after all, pliable, not fixed. They are subject to investigation, they may be reconfigured as games in which we are in control, where the terrors and seductions to which they subject us in their unilateral discourse may be altered according to our will, for our pleasure and amusement, for our provocation, for increasing our understanding of the machines of consciousness that process us. They are important viewing and they are considerable achievements. They remind us that the insights and efforts of a single individual can be deployed via computational means to wreak havoc with the massively and expensively constructed tissue of lies that envelope us. And just as important: they are smart and they are fun.
--Keith Sandborn, January 15, 2010
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Titles by Les LeVeque:
2 Spellbound
4 Vertigo
Backwards Birth of a Nation
Dramatically Repeating Lawrence of Arabia 
Encoded Facial Gesture #1
flight
the free space of the commodity
a little girl dreams of a new pluralism meanwhile the old war continues
Notes from the Underground
pulse pharma phantasm
Red Green Blue Gone with the Wind
A Song from the Cultural Revolution
stammering forward backward GIANT
Strained Andromeda Strain
Stutter the Searchers
Three Songs of Lenin
Work by Les LeVeque also appears on:
Compilation: Les LeVeque Videoworks: Volume 1
Compilation: Les LeVeque Videoworks: Volume 2
Compilation: Reconstruction Trilogy: Les LeVeque
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