Friday, July 12, 2024 at 6:30 pm
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New and recent videos from a few of the most exciting media artists who are part of the Hallwalls' membership. This program will run on a loop in the cinema throughout the opening of the Hallwalls Members Show.
video w/ sound, 8:12, 2017-2020
Crystal Z. Campbell
Running like water, an eclipse streams glimpses of irreversible consequence.
video w/ sound, 9:06, 2024
Debora Bernagozzi
A landscape generated through pure electronic signal and pushing it in ways that made it appear as a landscape.
video w/ sound, 2:50, 2017
Jason Bernagozzi
Emergence is a video that explores the tension between violence and intimacy at a small town pro wrestling match in Johnson City, NY. As the wrestlers engage in their dramat- ic struggle for dominance, the frame difference processing analyzes and exposes the intricate details of their movements, expressions and interactions. Paired with the song "Crying" by Roy Orbison, the artist frames the archetype of the pro wrestling match as a tension between consensual physicality and the performance of masculinity.
video w/ sound, 4:01, 2018
Annette Daniels Taylor
Written by: Frederick Douglass
Music, Vocals, Sound and Edit: Annette Daniels Taylor
Additional Camera: Haven Daniels-Taylor
video w/ sound, 8:33, 2019
Jason Bernagozzi
In a space between past and present, nostalgia and jargon, signal and image, Dialectic is an experimental single channel video that explores the conditions of encoded contradic- tion. Set in an old 1950’s gas station museum in rural Missouri, the vintage automobiles and faded mannequins are imbued with the myth of American exceptionalism. As the video moves forward, it also moves back, causing a flickering and breakdown of the video as an electronic material unable to resolve, expressing a kind of computational poetry that finds a new state in between.
video w/ sound, 10:00, 2024
Phil Hastings
video w/ sound, 8:16, 2024 Anna Chiaretta Lavatelli
A dissection of moving images from digitized personal 8mm films of Thomas Little and his brother Woodrow as they worked in the Aleutian Islands from 1955-56 for Bell Telephone. Project 572 was operated in collaboration with the US and Canadian governments to build a system of antennae known as the Distant Early Warning Line (DEWLine) so that we might have a few hours to respond to incoming weapons of mass destruction from Russia during the Cold War. These personal documents from the edges of the earth on the frigid tundra were uncovered years after the lives of the men had passed, and the resulting film searches for presence beyond the surface of the image through flattening and dissecting, while also stepping into the filmmaking instincts of a man I barely knew and his participation in a project that echoes a desperate clinging to avoid our end.
Analog + 2K color video w/ sound, 10:01, 2022
Anna Scime
Dear Deer plays with color on a leucistic canvas by imagining a new interface for genome editing wherein the material properties of video signals become stand-ins for processes targeting c-kit, mitf, EDNRB, and so forth to enable live-editing of a subject's pigmentation at the pleasure of the experimenter. Selective breeding for color, designer animals, and kindred anthropocentric attitudes inform these and other oppositional strategies to camouflage.
video w/ sound, 10:37, 2020
John Knecht
Curiosities From the Anthropocene began as a series of colored pencil drawings of souvenirs from the future. The idea for the drawings and resulting, animated video, originated with thoughts of the 18th Century “cabinets of curiosities”. These were collec- tions of cultural objects taken from people and places around the world as souvenirs from hegemonic, imperialist grabs by wealthy, European gentry to display as testimony to their cultural and military conquests. The objects drawn here are souvenirs from the future, late Anthropocene period. I am taking the viewer to a future, post-apocalyptic space where songs of destruction are mixed with contaminated eroticism in the ruins. These are not necessarily friendly cartoons.
video w/ sound, 8:00, 2021
Kalpana Subramanian
A serendipitous ritual of memory
Colliding archives of body and place
A cine-incantation to freedom and (be)longing.