Category: Archive

Despite the oppressive heat of the late afternoon on the hills of Marseille, the cicadas keep on singing. The overexposed video, burnt by the bite of the sun, reveals mixtures of unreal colors that meets the distorted cicadas melody. – JMR

franetjim.free.fr

Airing throughout the High Noon program, April 19-May 10, 2015 

New York, Summer 2014

https://vimeo.com/maxgrey

Airing throughout the High Noon program, April 19-May 10, 2015 

A small video camera is slowly destroyed by focused sunlight, reenacting / interpreting one of Isaac Newton’s early investigations into the nature of light and visual perception.
Isaac Newton – in an undated letter to John Locke:

The manner was this. I looked a very little while upon ye sun in a looking glass wth my right eye & then turned my eyes into a dark corner of my chamber & winked to observe the impression made & the circles of colours wch encompassed it & how they decayed by degrees & at last vanished. in a few hours time I had brought my eys to such a pass that I could look upon no bright object with either eye but I saw ye sun before me, so that I durst neither write nor read but to recover ye use of my eyes shut myself up in my chamber made dark for three days together & used all means to divert my imagination from ye Sun. But now I have been very well for many years, tho I am apt to think that if I durst venture my eyes I could still make ye phantasm return by the power of my fansy. –TD

thomasdexter.com

Airing throughout the High Noon program, April 19-May 10, 2015 

A videogame:  Avoid the sun during the day. At night collect the burnt bodies of other creatures for food.  3D textures are made with cyanotypes, images rendered through the sun’s UV rays. – AO

aaronoldenburg.net

Airing throughout the High Noon program, April 19-May 10, 2015 

Zombie Bling

Azimuth

Fabric scrims, sunlight and snowlight commingle as a process of rhythmic cutwork and stop motion animation conjure up the well known SMPTE test card pattern. As the angle of the sun shifts the everyday color stripes are entangled into a hypnotic, ritualistic signal test that takes over the screen. The second of three chapters, Aurora, Azimuth, and Arrhythmia.

www.danacarter.com

Airing throughout the High Noon program, April 19-May 10, 2015 

Light sleeps and rises, and sleeps again along the shoreline of day. Dramatic winkings to the surprising glory of summer. – RT

www.roberttoddfilms.com

Airing throughout the High Noon program, April 19-May 10, 2015 

Luminiferous Aether is titled after the 18th-19th century hypothesis that the Earth moves through a medium of aether that propagates light. Through a combination of animation and live video, I collage electronic pigment, archival images, sourced sound, and video footage in order to make visible the illusive orgone energy psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich saw when he looked skyward.

I began this project when I saw a photograph of an FDA official modeling the use of an orgone shooter, blanket, and hat in Cabinet Magazine. The photograph, dating from 1956, accompanied Christopher Turner’s article on the cultural significance of Wilhelm Reich’s legacy. In 2012 I traveled to Orgonon, Maine searching the sky for answers to ideological questions. I followed the footsteps of Wilhelm Reich, Dusan Makavejev, Kate Bush, William Burroughs, and fellow curious travelers. So began my journey, waxing on unintended consequences, irrational beliefs, natural phenomena, and the wonder of error. – AH

amyhicks.org

Airing throughout the High Noon program, April 19-May 10, 2015 

Airing throughout the High Noon program, April 19-May 10, 2015 

jasonajudd.com

Airing throughout the High Noon program, April 19-May 10, 2015