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Interview with Rosa Menkman, Dutch Visualist

29 June, 2010 by


Rosa Menkman is a Dutch filmmaker and artist; Rosa is a trailblazer in the glitch video scene. Rosa experiments with video compression, feedback, glitches, and other forms of noise to create visuals unique to the realm of digital media.

Most discern visual glitches — i.e. buzzing lines on interlaced video, video lag, digital blocks, particles, and pixelation  — as a detriment to video aesthetics. Rosa, however, embraces these glitch-bits, and contrives them in her work, which is multivalent, and may be described as subversive fidelity, technicolor, synthetic yet organic, and at times, raucous.

Rosa has shown her work at Blip (Europe and US), Haip (Ljubljana 08), Cimatics (Brussels 08/09), Video Vortex (Amsterdam ’08 + Brussels ’09), Pasofest (Ankara 08), and collaborated on art projects together with Alexander Galloway, little-scale, Govcom.org, Goto80, and the internet art collective Jodi.org.

Rosa has written many words on glitch, including manifesto on glitch, which you can download in .pdf format here. In 2009, Rosa completed her master thesis on digital glitch under the supervision of Geert Lovink.

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Untitled Video Painting 02

16 November, 2009 by

Untitled Video Painting 02 from borna on Vimeo.

15 second HD video loop, no audio. 2009.

(turn of HD if you’re experiencing choppy playback).

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Petra Cortright: Footvball Faerie (2009)

11 November, 2009 by

Petra Cortright, art-gem of the net, posts a lot of videos of herself dancing, and I admire how she posted this video of herself performing a potboiler of a dance to Kraftwerk’s “The Model.”

In the silent abstract piece of video-art (above) we observe Petra as she juggles das football in das hot-pink onezee. A synthetic pink cloud hovers. This is seductive.

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That’s Hot | ’80s Video Art

11 August, 2009 by

Video art from the early ’80s – an ocean of technicolored bits + shapes.  Plenty of rainbow gradients and tracer images.  A fun ride.

Video by G.G. Aries
Edited by: G.G. Aries & Mark Allen
Music by: Larry Gibbs from California Images

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Election Collectibles by Bryan Boyce

10 August, 2009 by

Oh my gosh, we have triple pay on this.

This video is brilliant and is chocked full of perverse artifice.

Bryan Boyce, a San Francisco-based experimental filmmaker, employs astute image/audio juxtapositions by combining 2000 campaign footage of Al Gore and George W. Bush with found audio from late-night TV infomercials.  Artificial animated mouths are superimposed on both Gore and Bush — seemingly the presidential canidates sermonize a sales pitch for an overpriced election 2000 collectible light-box (which clearly is made from construction paper, adhesive metallic stars, and other dirt-cheap arts/crafts materials).

The best part of this vid is that it enables absurd audio taken from the late-night cutlery basement infomercial (you know, the katana sword dudes) and, through effective application, it sheds light on an American truth about the QVC party, it’s a super big party, where they party for profit motive during election time.  Remember the Obama commemorative plates that popped up shortly after his election win?

Election Collectibles sums up our epoch of millennial consumerism, which, of course, is rife with dirty, dirty infomercials.

Elections Collectibles is available for purchase on Peripheral Produce’s Greatest Hits compilation DVD, which also features work from Deborah Stratman, Miranda July, and Animal Charm.  View more on the release here.

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