Claire Jervert
Add to Cart uses the icon of a shopping cart as it appears on the “add to cart” button seen on retail sites throughout the Internet. This icon has become a universal symbol of “the purchase.” Here, the icon takes on a panoply of stock effects used in electronic billboard advertising–bright, shifting colors; pulsating lights; jittery, hyperkinetic animation effects. The forms of advertising appear, but entirely emptied of content.
Mitch Oliver
Strange phenomena ignite. Terror magnitude has arrived; its mission: fate and unimaginable circumstances.
This project is an extrapolation of the alien noise generator that signaled down to Earth. Keeping with the theory of the movie, random noise condenses down upon itself and disrupts all communications. A circuit-bent LaserDisc player generated images from select scenes of the film, which were further processed with analog feedback loops.
Rosa Menkman
02:00
2015
Single channel video released as part of the institutions of Resolution Discuputes [iRD]
hardware used: nova drone by Casper Electronics w/ custom patching
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Between a masonic pigpen and DCT
Dear DCT
You may call me an archaic old quiff
But I still believe that nothing has more aura than the invisible
So here I am, nostalgic for the secrecy and non-seeing
With my biggest fear my expiration date: when they would understand my alliances,
and my cycle over groom waters
becomes encyclopaedic
You, my dear DCT are not nice to me
Why do you mock my quest for radical freedom?
Dear Masonic Pigpen
it is a hard question: how not to be visible.
Does it mean not to reflect
or not to emit a signal?
It seems to you it just means that
She cannot own the signs.
No cypher, encryption or any form of secrecy is permanent
As the once radical enigma fell through a dumb ìhelloî
We are all bound to become informed materials
Products of semiotic de/territorialization
Progressively enriched by information.
I celebrate obfuscation
Inside a liminal space build on RLE and err
The conditions becoming readable to the OCR are flippant
[[But]]
You do not need to be a decommissioned Ourobouros
Because every time a new way of seeing is constructed,
A new prehistory will be generated —
And then we are in freespace again
Theo Shure
00:60
What actually matters? Knocking down the playground.
Why? We’re going to build anew. Why? Its exciting.
But what about this? Couldn’t this be better too?
For Commercial Break, a dozen contemporary commercials are frankenstein’d to make new propagandistic narratives for sixty-second public broadcast.
Jillian Mayer
01:15
“Hot Beach Babe Aims to Please is a seamless loop of bikini-cad Mayer walking in and out of the ocean. As soon as she enters the camera’s frame, a swarm of computer cursor arrows follow and stalk her as she moves. The pattern that the cursors assume in this video is based off eye-tracking research websites.” -JM
Dir: Lucy Pawlak
Cinematography: Joaquin Del Paso
2015
Matrix Poppin’ Bot, your very own robotic nanny , has 3 modes – Parent, Best Friend and Teacher. She has a bump sensor, built-in CCTV, as well as touch, pain and temperature sensors on her head, arms and wheels.
Here’s what some REAL PARENTS say:
“She’s so life-like they’re gunna have to invent a whole new category between animate and inanimate!”
“Poppin’ Bot banishes the ‘dull and dirty’ work of childcare.”
“My little one’s even started talking like her – it’s so cute!”
“Poppin’ bot gives me the best of both worlds, my kids are 100% happy and I can give 100% to my work.”
“No more changing nappies, no more bathing, no more dressing, no more feeding.”
Martin Murphy
Single channel video and audio
01:38
2011
Courtesy of artist and Aspect/Ratio
The video poses as a sort of commercial. It has the ingredients of popular media, bright lighting, and a familiar product, but I see it more as a reexamination of the image’s desire. Dreamer might be what the product wants; not to be consumed, but to bathe in the media influences.
Tina Willgren
Weather Alert consists of animated weather symbols, distorted by glitches and compression artifacts. The chance operations performed on the video and image file data create a digital world of unpredictable forms. Usually there is nothing vague about the clouds, rainfalls and wind directions presented in weather reports, but this is a forecast of ambiguous weather.
Huong Ngo & George Monteleone
3 Digital Video Commercials
Color & Sound
Total runtime: 05:40
2005
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Rob Steinberg
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