Keyword Index
Selected keyword: film
Work: America`s Finest
Artist: Hershman Leeson, Lynn
Comment: In 1830, both the camera and the colt revolver were invented. more than a half century later, in 1888 Etienne Jules Maray perfected a gun that substituted film for bullets. There has long been a...
Work: Another Day in Paradise
Artist: Vesna, Victoria
Comment: The installation "Another Day in Paradise" was composed of three preserved trees: surveillance, video and touchscreen trees. The equipment not contained in the trees themselves was hidden from view...
Work: Archeology of a Mother Tongue
Artist: Dove, Toni
Comment: A virtual reality murder mystery - part movie, part performance - was created at The Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada, in collaboration with Michael Mackenzie. It is an immersive interactive...
Work: Beyond
Artist: Beloff, Zoe
Comment: In a playful spirit of philosophical inquiry, Beyond explores the paradoxes of technology, desire and the paranormal posed since the birth of mechanical reproduction: the phonograph severing the...
Work: Brakelights
Artist: Hessels, Scott
Comment: Brakelights is a real-time computer system that senses color changes in the environment to make choices from a database of dialogue lines…a live cinema-generating machine. The program reads the color...
Work: Continuous Sound and Image Moments
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: Continuous Sound and Image Moments is a hand-drawn black-and-white animated film loop with no beginning or end. Conceived as a cinematic expansion of pictorial means, the process of making thousands...
Work: Corpocinema
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: The Corpocinema ('corporeal cinema') was an expanded cinema environment presented in a series of open-air performances in Rotterdam and Amsterdam in 1967. The basic structure was a large...
Work: Disillusion of Striptease Films
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: Striptease films were projected onto a woman doing a striptease. She struggled to remove her clothes while tightly encapsulated inside an inflatable balloon-costume. When she was naked a masked...
Work: Emergences of Continuous Forms
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: Emergences of Continuous Forms was one of a series of performances and installations in this period which explored various methods of extending the cinematic image into the space of the viewers and...
Work: Environmental Media Studies
Artist: Naimark, Michael
Comment: Environmental Media Studies explored new ways of representing landscape and place.
Moving Movie #1 (1977) was an inexpensive modest study made at MIT. I was obsessed with why movie cameras move...
Work: Genetic Seed Bank
Artist: Anker, Suzanne
Comment: Animation for artist Suzanne Anker. Video loop created from still image for video installation.
Work: Golden Gate Fly- Over
Artist: Naimark, Michael
Comment: Golden Gate Fly-over is a moviemap of the San Francisco Bay Area from the air made the Exploratorium. We used a special gyro-stabilized helicopter camera and satellite navigation to film along a...
Work: GPSFilm
Artist: Hessels, Scott
Comment: GPS Film is the first locative media narrative system to merge mobile and GPS technologies. A way to watch cinema based on the viewer’s location and movement, the original source code was released...
Work: La Morale sensitive
Artist: Boissier, Jean Louis
Comment: La Morale sensitive takes its title from a philosophical project that Rousseau never completed, concerning the process of learning and experimentation through the phenomenon of perception. In...
Work: Laberint
Artist: Allen, Rebecca
Comment: Laberint is a single-channel video based on the Platonic myth that woman and man were once one androgynous form. Live-action and computer generated characters weave between real and virtual worlds....
Work: MovieMovie
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: This expanded cinema performance was specially created for the Experimental Film Festival in Knokke-le-Zoute. It took place in the foyer of the festival building, with the audience sitting on the...
Work: One-person Touchscreen Cinema Showing 14 Interactive Movies
Artist: Hales, Chris
Comment: This collection of experimental interactive movies, made by the artist over several years, shows live-action works in which the visual metaphors for interaction are inherent in the filmic material....
Work: Paris VideoPlan
Artist: Naimark, Michael
Comment: Paris VideoPlan was commissioned by the RATP (Paris Metro) to map the Madeleine district of Paris from the point-of-view of walking down the sidewalk. It was filmed with a stop-frame 35mm camera...
Work: Pneu-Written
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: Elements of the MovieMovie (1966) were merged with a performance scenography made by John Lantham.
Work: Scottish Sorrow
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: A city counsil street light repair vehicle was completely covered in tartan printed plastic. It drove nightly through Edinburgh broadcasting traditional bagpipe music and projecting tartan patterns...
Work: Steady State
Artist: Allen, Rebecca
Comment: Steady State was commissioned by TVE (Television of Spain) for a 14 part television series titled El Arte del Video (The Art of Video). This piece and other work by Allen were featured in the...
Work: Sustainable Cinema No. 2: Lenticular Bicycle
Artist: Hessels, Scott
Comment: Lenticular Bicycle is the first sculpture in the series to use human energy. The pedal-powered movie references the ingenuity and resourcefulness of the hacked bicycles that are roughly converted for...
Work: Sustainable Cinema No. 3: Praxinoscope Windmill
Artist: Hessels, Scott
Comment: The 19th century Praxinoscope consisted of a circular beveled mirror reflecting a series of animation frames. When the device is spun, a moving image appears on the mirror. Using wind as the power...
Work: Sustainable Cinema No. 4: Shadow Play
Artist: Hessels, Scott
Comment: The silhouettes of the ancient art of Shadow Play are achieved by light penetrating a translucent screen, and this sculpture uses the rotation of the windmill as the power to generate the backlight...
Work: Televents
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: Numerous disillusionary manipulations of domestic TV sets were made for a television broadcast by the V.P.R.O. For instance, the TV screen was replaced with a white painted black balloon on which...
Work: The Moon is a Mirror
Artist: Hessels, Scott
Comment: This series of artworks contemplates the screen and its origins. My time in the villages of Southeast Asia has shown me an array of organic resources that can be formed into papers. I've researched...
Work: The Tribe
Artist: Goldberg, Ken
Comment: What can the most successful doll on the planet show us about being Jewish today? Narrated by Peter Coyote, the film mixes old school narration with a new school visual style. The Tribe weaves...
Work: What will come (Has already come)
Artist: Kentridge, William
Comment: This installation features the debut of an important new addition to the SCMA collection, “What Will Come” (2006), a major film by the South African artist William Kentridge. One of the most...
Work: Wind and Rain
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: A room was densely and completely filled with confetti that was being vigorously blown about by big fans. At one point a live elephant was brought into the room and the not realized intention...