2017 Projects
I Love Fun - YouTube Adventures
The Car, The Cinema
The Camera, The Book, the Phonograph
The Kiss: A History of Cinema and Aesthetic Change
VARIATIONS - preliminary movements in a work of algorithmic cinema
Feeling Zissou
PIRT @ SIGGRAPH - The First Panel
Intermission
Let's See The Trash
This Is PVPA
2017 ProjectsProjects I got going in and around Fall 2017.
I Love Fun - YouTube Adventures
The Car, The CinemaA creative mediation on the car and cinema in cinematic memory, enacted through appropriated and repurposed footage.
The Camera, The Book, the PhonographA brief mediation on the camera & the photograph, the book & printing press, and the phonograph in cinematic depiction, enacted through appropriated footage.
The Kiss: A History of Cinema and Aesthetic ChangeVideo essay reflecting on the evolution of 'the kiss' as an element of cinematic language over the course of a century.
VARIATIONS - preliminary movements in a work of algorithmic cinemaVideo source: nine 15-minute pre-shows for lectures on technology and culture, assembled from public domain materials or copyrighted materials used under fair-use exemption.Audio source: Bach's Goldberg Variations, as performed by Glenn Gould (1981 version).Process: Each variation's BPM was converted into an average shot length (in seconds). A program (written in Python) algorithmically edited the source footage thirty-one times, operating on rules derived from each variation. The resulting work is a product of three human sign-systems: the footage, informed by the curriculum of a course and the individual editors of the preshows; Goldberg Variations, doubly informed by Bach's formal structures and Gould's "constant rhythmic reference"; the algorithm, written by me, informed by algebra and early Soviet montage theory.
Feeling ZissouExperiment in trying to generate views through montage & remix: Nicki Minaj + Beyonce's "Feeling Myself" + Wes Anderson's "The A Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou."Wes Anderson fans didn't like it, and Nicki Minaj fans didn't watch it.I like it, though.
PIRT @ SIGGRAPH - The First PanelDr. Anne Balsamo and Professor Angela Ferraiolo narrate a commentary on the first panel made for the AIDS Quilt.Occurred at SIGGRAPH 2015.AIDS Quilt panel on loan from the NAMES Project Foundation (aidsquilt.org).
IntermissionOne of several theatrical projections created for Northampton High School's production of Thorton Wilder's "The Of Our Teeth".Assembled from found footage, used for the projection during intermission.
Let's See The TrashOne of 12 algorithmically edited videos prepared for location-based documentary "Let's See The Trash".IDEAS CITY Festival, The New Museum, New York, New York, Summer 2015.
This Is PVPAI supervised a student production team who generously donated their time and energy to shoot this promotional video for PVPA in South Hadley, MA, where I used to teach (and where I had some important experiences and made some very nice memories).
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