Les LeVeque Videoworks: Volume 1

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Collection: Single Artist Compilations

Tags: Consumer culture, Image Processing, Media Analysis, Videoworks

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 highlight underlying meanings and metaphors.

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Les LeVeque the free space of the... 1995 \| 02:52 "In the free space of the commodity, I digitally took apart moving image sequences and re-animated them into an encoded montage to create a metaphor of experience where the viewer feels like a fiber optic cable has been hard-wired into their... Collection: Single Titles Tags: consumer culture, language, media analysis	Les LeVeque Encoded Facial Gesture... 1997 \| 02:00 Encoded Facial Gesture #1 is a frame-by-frame animation of two mouth gestures that have been encoded into ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchanges) to spell out a brief text by Sigmund Freud on paranoia. This title is also... Collection: Single Titles Tags: animation, language
Les LeVeque A Song from the... 1998 \| 05:00 A Song from the Cultural Revolution is a stuttering music video composed of appropriated footage of Bill Gates’s testimony before the U.S. Senate. Gates’s hand gestures have been re-edited, frame-by-frame, into ASCII (American Standard Code... Collection: Single Titles Tags: culture jamming, language, music video	Les LeVeque flight 1998 \| 07:00 flight is a frame-by-frame re-editing of an astronaut walking on the moon into a seven-minute long meditation on technological transcendence. The unstable, stuttering image depicts the astronaut's struggle to separate from his body. Comically... Collection: Single Titles Tags: humor, image processing

Les LeVeque the free space of the... 1995 \| 02:52 "In the free space of the commodity, I digitally took apart moving image sequences and re-animated them into an encoded montage to create a metaphor of experience where the viewer feels like a fiber optic cable has been hard-wired into their... Collection: Single Titles Tags: consumer culture, language, media analysis	Les LeVeque Encoded Facial Gesture... 1997 \| 02:00 Encoded Facial Gesture #1 is a frame-by-frame animation of two mouth gestures that have been encoded into ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchanges) to spell out a brief text by Sigmund Freud on paranoia. This title is also... Collection: Single Titles Tags: animation, language
Les LeVeque A Song from the... 1998 \| 05:00 A Song from the Cultural Revolution is a stuttering music video composed of appropriated footage of Bill Gates’s testimony before the U.S. Senate. Gates’s hand gestures have been re-edited, frame-by-frame, into ASCII (American Standard Code... Collection: Single Titles Tags: culture jamming, language, music video	Les LeVeque flight 1998 \| 07:00 flight is a frame-by-frame re-editing of an astronaut walking on the moon into a seven-minute long meditation on technological transcendence. The unstable, stuttering image depicts the astronaut's struggle to separate from his body. Comically... Collection: Single Titles Tags: humor, image processing

Les LeVeque Videoworks: Volume 1

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