Category: These Streams Shorts Program

still from 45 Minutes of Nothing

Repeat airing of 45 Minutes of Nothing at a certain hour for 32 days consecutively, totaling 24 hours of nothing.

The collapse of the dot-com bubble that took place during 1999–2001 left many billboards in San Francisco blank with only a, bright, white rectangle present. I documented blank billboards throughout the city to celebrate the absence of commercial messaging.

Documenting the world going on happily around the billboard’s blank message captured nothing of particular interest but allowed me to enjoy a pause, a focused meditative state. This blank billboard was documented in an increment of 45 minutes, the duration of a television episode without com- mercial messaging.

Today, San Francisco is thriving and experiencing another boom in the tech industry. The value
of real estate and space is at an all time high and it is unique to see a blank billboard. Tune into “45 minutes of nothing”, and find a wonderful time to pause for reflection and a break from visual form and an opportunity to focus on nothing.

Stacy Asher Web Site

Airing as part of These Streams Shorts Program:

Daily July 17-August 17, 7-10pm

The producer of Coma Club presents: Oral Tradition Tele-Vision episode one “The Initiation” starring Jason Martin.
Oral Tradition Tele-Vision is a public access program that explores narrative, perception and internal mythologies and psychic manifestations.

Guests on the show retell an episode of something they have seen on television, the emerging details and thematic focuses or omissions serve to illuminate the individual’s unique filter, the narrator’s perception of external reality, and how their idea of self operates within that construct. Some of the selves or facets of self that reflect, filter and manipulate this material are shown as psychic manifestations or actualized internal characters and personal archetypes.

Oral Tradition Tele-Vision seeks to activate deep levels of interpersonal connection and self-exploration through the act of sharing stories while utilizing a broadcast medium that contains this potential but is often more equated with consumerist escapism and alienation.

Submissions Encouraged!

Send to: Jamie.Mohr at mail.sit.edu

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Airing as part of These Streams Shorts Program:

Daily July 1-August 31, 7-10pm

New episode each month

Natural History Curiosity. iPhone video. 2014.

Los Angeles Natural History Museum collection: one of the largest natural crystal balls in the world…whatever that means. I appreciate it’s strategic placement before a threshold – it suggests that the exhibition designers anticipated compulsive iPhone videos.

www.cauleensmith.com

Airing as part of These Streams Shorts Program:

Daily July 1-August 31, 7-10pm

Control is a video shot through the lens with the idea that society is moving deeper into a digital age. I collected footage of various urban landscapes in major U.S. cities and processed them through a visual programming language. The light in the video is generated through a filter which reduces the light into color pixels. The light pixels are then filtered through a program which generates the sound. Therefore, you hear what you see. Control aims to make the viewer present in the moment yet also hopes to hypnotize them under mass media’s spell.

www.saracondo.com
saracondo at gmail dot com

Airing as part of These Streams Shorts Program:

Daily July 1-August 31, 7-10pm

Traverse through familiar terrain with pop-up clowns and boats, with hot dogs, fans and grids. Duration makes space. Call it breathing room.
Here time collects like aggregate data and is metered by the sound of my feet. Jumping jacks discharge excess adrenaline.
Daniel told me this video points to what is missing and that he teared up around the four-minute marker. Nothing is really happening then.

http://work.amandaelisebowles.com/

Airing as part of These Streams Shorts Program:

Daily July 1-August 31, 7-10pm

Means and Ends, 5 min, bw, silent

Static typewritten marks intertwine through a shifting frame of view along the axis of a page. In this simple movement, contours dissolve as one point is dragged into another, forming crooked variations of line and brief glimpses of optical illusion. 

www.bonniebegusch.com

Airing as part of These Streams Shorts Program:

Daily July 1-August 31, 7-10pm

I always found station identifications and PSAs to be my favorite bits of television. This is the… falls somewhere in between. It doesn’t say a whole lot, doesn’t ask a whole lot, it just is what it is and thats a Brundle fly tele-pod, a direct beam from my new age kid brains through the bionic Google peehole into the primordial mud, marrow, and majik. ?!?

Dan’s internet crib: www.danzodanzo.com
Dan’s internet mailbox: dang.olsen@gmail.com

Airing as part of These Streams Shorts Program:

Daily July 1-August 31, 7-10pm

The flight patterns of birds in the sky are preserved in real time. As much an attempt to concretize a fleeting moment as it is an effort to stretch the echo of the birds within space/time, Pluma uses the little creatures to question the delineation between chance and history.

www.socialsundries.com

Airing as part of These Streams Shorts Program:

Daily July 1-August 31, 7-10pm

In the winter of 1970 a fragment of a film was discovered in a warehouse on the Hudson River in New York. The film shows fleeting black and white images of what appears to be a small, blonde female with the head of a movie starlet and the body of an ape. This fragment has generated a great deal of controversy. Is it documentary footage, a hoax, or a piece of lost fiction? The ensuing years have produced much evidence in support of conflicting theories, as well as speculation about the nature and location of this creature. Many people believe that she is the love child of Fay Wray and King Kong, living invisibly among us, in solitude, and that she is an artist or a poet. Some believe she is a sign of The End or of The Beginning; perhaps even the second coming of a new Christ. Some say she is just a poor freak, a sad accident escaped from a Soviet laboratory…. Some say she doesn’t exist at all. A number of letters believed to have been written by this creature surfaced not long after the discovery of the footage. Those letters were signed “I, Daughter Of Kong.” Since the discovery of the letters we at the center have referred to her by this name.

The I, Daughter Of Kong Center For Research was founded in Rio Vista, California in 1978. At IDOKCFR we are devoted to education and research pertaining to I, Daughter Of Kong.

idaughterofkong.com

Airing as part of These Streams Shorts Program:

Daily July 1-August 31, 7-10pm

Mimicking the aesthetics of a screen saver, this video demonstrates the appearance of abandoned media through connecting an idle screen to the potential actions of the body behind. This piece explores idleness, authorship, gender, and possession. An excited inertia trapped on the confines of the video screen.

Jill & Alejandro:
Jillian Hansen-Lewis and Alejandro Jimenez are a working collaborative based in Chicago.  They read Virilio while having lunch, and watch Beavis and Butthead after dinner.  Their work assesses the value language inherits from its author and reader, by obfuscating the authorship and readership into one vehicle. We’ll see where that goes.

Websites:
Jillian Hansen-Lewis
Alejandro Jimenez

Airing as part of These Streams Shorts Program:

Daily July 1-August 31, 7-10pm