David Adamo
Anniversary Waltz by David Adamo 3:58 min. (2007) The party is over.  The guests have all gone home.  The artist dances alone.  (CDM)  Courtesy of Fruit and Flower Deli.

Brooke Alfaro
Aria by Brooke Alfaro 3:20 min. (2002). A young woman sings La Wally to an unusual accompaniment. Courtesy of artist.

ArtNexus article, June 2005
BOMB Interview, Winter 2004
Washington Diplomat article, January 2003

Dominic Angerame
Anaconda Targets by Dominic Angerame, 10:51 min. (2004). As video games become more and more sophisticated, we admire their realism.  Here’s a harsh reminder that realism is based on the real.  (CDM)  Courtesy of the artist.

ARTIST STATEMENT & BCKGRD

Film Threat Review, September 2005
Canyon Cinema Essay by Stefan Grissemann
Evening Class Interview, June 2006

Matthew Barney
Drawing Restraint 13 by Matthew Barney, 27:45 min. (2006). Barney impersonates General Douglas MacArthur across from an asian man in formal attire in a scene reminiscent of the ceremony that ended WWII; but instead of signing a treaty documenting the surrender of Japan, Barney brands and signs the backs of a series of his own drawings and slides them across the table to the asian man, who also signs them, and then they are labelled by Barbara Gladstone, dressed in vintage civvies.

Gladstone Gallery
Drawing Restraint

Carolyn Sortor on Matthew Barney

Michael Bell-Smith
Battleship Potemkin Dance Edit (120 BPM) by Michael Bell-Smith (with the assistance of Jeff Sission), 12:29 (2007).  The artist "separated the film into its constituent shots and time stretched them one by one to the exact same length [, and] then replaced the soundtrack with a one-second dance loop synced to the cuts", replacing the original editing structure of the revolutionary narrative, which has been called seminal in its use of montage, with the "dumb, visceral, metric montage favored by dance visuals and music videos".  Courtesy of the artist.

Foxy Productions bio

Guy Ben-Ner

Moby Dick and his latest, Stealing Beauty (see Postmasters Gallery).

John Bock
Palms by John Bock, 59:14 mins. (2007). Two Tarantino-esque thugs encounter various sculptures during a road trip in search of an elusive target whose “body face is only approximately definable,” while other characters engage in extreme cigarette smoking. Courtesy of Anton Kern Gallery.  

The Anton Kern Gallery

John Bock Still 1 & 2 Photo Caption
John Bock, production stills from Palms (2007), video, 59:14 mins. Courtesy Klosterfelde, Berlin; Anton Kern, New York; Regen Projects, Los Angeles. Copyright the artist. Photo: Jan Windszus.

Schirn Kunsthalle Exhibition article, June 2007 (pdf)

John Michael Boling + Javier Morales
Accidental Blue Screen and Lord of the Flies by John Michael Boling, (2006) Courtesy of the artist
Installations

53 o's

Dena DeCola + Karin E. Wander Five more Minutes by Dena DeCola + Karin E. Wandner, 17:23 min. (2005). The artists enact intimate moments between a “mother” and “child,” to touching yet peculiar effect. Courtesy of Video Data Bank. five more minutes is an exploration of grief. Two women spend an afternoon recreating lost time. What begins as play-acting breaks open into a world where the tenderness and sorrow of having to say goodbye exist untempered. Five More Minutes Bio: Dena DeCola lives in Los Angeles. She has collaborated with Karin E. Wandner, since the two met at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Their work has shown nationally and internationally. "five more minutes has a perfect pleasurable tension that sustains and builds throughout. There are complex layers of interest--the subtle profound relationship between mother and daughter, friends and performers, reality breaking through artifice, artifice through reality. It is haunting and grows in the mind. Seeing it over is a treat; it gets deeper." --Larry Gottheim, filmmaker "I want to recommend a short film titled five more minutes made by Dena DeCola and Karin E. Wandner. They did it all. They wrote it, acted in it, and directed it. It's a strong and daring work. We live in such a buttoned-up, fearful, cautious culture. five more minutes is an attempt to open us up. And it's not afraid to take chances to do it. It's not afraid to be emotional." --Ray Carney, author of Cassavetes on Cassavetes "I only want to see movies made by people who are desperately trying to figure out how to live, five more minutes is one of those movies. Dena DeCola and Karin E. Wandner obviously risked a lot to make themselves this vulnerable, and they did it because they had to." --Miranda July, director of Me and You and Everyone We Know From Video Data Bank

Nathalie Djurberg
Camels Drink Water by Nathalie Djurberg, 3:48 min. (2007).
Two camels help a parched, differently- able person. Courtesy of Zach Feuer Gallery.

Once Removed on my Mother's Side by Natalie Djurberg, 5:31 min. (2008). A young woman ministers to an obese elder. Courtesy of Zach Feuer Gallery.

Timbuktu by Nathalie Djurberg, 4:40 min. (2007). A bureaucrat loses in a contest among three different kinds of power. Courtesy of Zach Feuer Gallery.

Dumstrutt by Natalie Djurberg, 4:12 min. (2006). A boy torments a cat, testing it and his own limits. Courtesy of Zach Feuer Gallery.

For more information please visit the Zach Feuer Gallery

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Camel Drink Water, 2007
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eteam
Second Life Dumpster by Eteam, 45 min. (2008)
Installation. The artists are creating a dumpster within the multiplayer online virtual reality game, Second Life, to collect virtual trash such as replaced avatar body parts. Courtesy of artist.

Cao Fei
iMirror (A Second Life Documentary Film) by China Tracy a.k.a Cao Fei) by Cao Fei, 28:07 min. (2007).  A documentary created by the artist within the multiplayer online virtual reality game, Second Life; this piece was shown at the most recent Venice Biennial.  (CS)  Courtesy of Lombard-Freid Projects.

 iMirror

RMB City - A Second Life City Planning by China Tracy by Cao Fei, 6:08 min. (2007). A promotional demo trailer for the artist's "China-like" real estate project within the multiplayer online virtual reality game, Second Life, where development rights are now on sale ("RMB" is a name for the Chinese currency).  (CS)  Commissioned by Serpentine Gallery; courtesy of Lombard-Freid Projects.

Andrea Fraser
May I Help You by Andrea Freaser, 19:47 min. (1991). A gallerist extols a series of black paintings by Allan McCollum, oddly and at great length. Courtesy of Friedrich Petzel Gallery.

IMAGE, VITA, CONTACT

Excerpt from article on Context as Subject (2003)
Generali Foundation article

Yang Fudong
An Estranged Paradise by Yan Fudong, 76 min. (1997/2002). This is Fudong’s first, near feature-length film, shot six years before he began work on his multi-part masterpiece, Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest (2003 – 2006). Fudong speaks for a generation of young Chinese intellectuals caught at “a moment when we have to negotiate our past while inventing our future.”  The protagonist of Paradise is Zuzhi, a young man who drifts through a rapidly modernizing Shanghai, suffering from an undefined illness that seems to come on with the rainy season.  Although he has two girlfriends he admits he is happiest when visiting with doctors or entertaining his parents on their trips in from the countryside.  Yang opens his film with a lesson in Chinese landscape painting, in which what is left out can be the most significant elements.  (CDM) Courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery.

WORK, BIO, LIST

ArtVoice article on Estranged Paradise
Art Forum article on Seven Intellectuals (September 2003)

Anthony Goicolea
The Code by Anthony Goicolea, 1:18 min. (2007). Courtesy of Postmasters Gallery.

Postmasters
Anthony Goicolea
Artist Video Statement

Alfred Guzzetti
Still Point by Alfred Guzzetti, 14:30 min. (2008). Camera remaining completely sill lingers on a series of beautifully- framed scenes. Courtesy of the artist.
Installation

RESUME

Joel Holmberg
 Hand Flurry by Joel Holmberg, 1:00 min. (2008).  Courtesy of artist

Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung
Courtesy of Postmasters gallery

Residental Erection by Kenneth Tin- Kin Hung,  4:34 min. (2008). A recap of the campaigns so far and a glimpse of the future. Courtesy of Postmasters Gallery.

Gas Zappers by Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung, 5:45 min. (2007) Al Gore as polar bear wields solar panels against a BBQ’ing Bush. Courtesy of Postmasters Gallery.

GasZappers
Village Voice article, April 2008
New York Times article April  2008

jimpunk
Triptych TV by Jimpunk, (2008) courtesy of artist Installations.

JODI
Max Payne Cheats Only 1 by JODI, 23 min. (2004) A video game said to have influenced John Woo is deconstructed. Courtesy of And/or Gallery. Installation

Film selections
Digimag article

Meiro Koizumi
The Human Opera XXX by Meiro Koizumi, 17 min. (2007).
The artist subjects a man to an “experiment” in which he is to “Share a tragic story of his life in front of a video camera” in return for a monetary payment; brilliant an disturbing.
Courtesy of Nicole Klagsbrun.

Asian Hot Shots Festival article

Liz Magic Laser + Felicia Garcia-River
Bend by Liz Magic Laser and Felicia Garcia Rivera, 7 min. (2008). Five young men in a motorcycle club follow a series of instructions from an off-camera woman. Courtesy of artist.

Kalup Linzy

Melody Set Me Free by Kalup LInzy, 14:06 min. (2007). The talented Mr. Linzy, in impeccable Whitney Houston drag, overcomes a mother's negativity and competitors' backstage backstabbing to find true love and a chance at stardom.  You go, girl!  (CDM)  Courtesy of Taxter Spengemann.

Ride to da Club by Kalup Linzy, 5:06 min. (2002) Linzy plays the female lead and many of the voices in this cheerfully profane conference call all aimed at getting to the club.  Now, why is it no one wants to ride with Big Dick Johnny?  (CDM)  Courtesy of Taxter Spengemann.

Taxter and Spengemann biographical information
New York Magazine article on Top Five Online Art Videos of 2007
The Zine article, February 2008

Guthrie Lonergan
Cover this YouTube in blood, Bricks video and 9 Short Music Videos
Installations Courtesy of artist

Age of Mammals website
Rhizome interview

Kristin Lucas
 Host by Kristin Lucas, 7:36 min. (1997).  Lucas has said, " . . . I participate in an on-line therapy session directed by the system operator of a streetside multi-media kiosk. . . . [the session becomes] an amalgamation of daytime television and tabloid, wherein the surveillance camera becomes the eye of the media."  Courtesy of the artist.

Matt Marello
Artist Trilogy by Matt Marello, 13 min. (2001-2002).  Mr. Marello plays the lead in three classic – well, maybe not so classic – films about artists as victims, killers, and charlatans.  Let’s see, did he leave anything out?  Oh, yes, insatiable sex fiend.  (CDM)  Courtesy of the artist.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Tom Moody
www.tommoody.us
End Notes by Tom Moody, - min. (2008). Courtesy of artist.

New Monuments by Tom Moody, - min. (2008). Courtesy of artist.

Hoedown by Tom Moody, - min. 92007) Courtesy of artist.

Press
Fort Worth Star Telegram
Art in America

Shana Moulton
Whispering Pines 8 by Shana Moutlon, 17:47 minus 10:11 = 7:36 min. (2006). One of a series of episodes in which the artist’s native, trusting persona resorts to 80’s-vintage diversions in her struggle against angst and depression. Courtesy of Country Club Gallery.

BIO INFO
RESUME

Inmyz article on Whispering Pines

Yves Netzhammer
Die Anordnungsweise zwier Gegenteile bei der Erzeugung ifres BerUhrungsmazimums. [The Arrangement of Two Opposites While their Maximum Contact is Under Generation] by Yves Netzhammer, 12:50 min. (2002). Courtesy of Galerie Anita Beckers.

Jon Pylypchuk
 Dating Game by Jon Pylypchuk, 5:19 min. (2006). Courtesy of Friedrich Petzel Gallery.
 
Meals on Wheels by Jon Pylypchuck 4:24 min. (2006) The spirit of volunteerism is alive but not so well in this possibly all-too-realistic narrative.  (CDM)  Courtesy of Friedrich Petzel Gallery.

Nude Beach by Jon Pylypchuck, 4:59 min. (2006). “I thought this was a public beach.”  Famous last words.  (CDM)  Courtesy of Friedrich Petzel Gallery.

Friedrich Petzel Gallery article

Marcin Ramocki
Torcito Project by Marcin Ramocki, (2005). The artist uses re-purposed Mac software to transform a gallery of cel phone portraits into sonic bitmap scores which are now "played." (CS) Courtesy of the artist.
 
Art Fag City article, March 2007
Ramocki website

Steve Reinke
Hobbit Love is the Greatest of Love by Steve Reinke, 14 min. (2007). The artist explores literal and figurative projections in space and time.  (CS)  Courtesy of Video Data Bank and the artist.

Peter Rose
Studies in Transfalumination by Peter Rose, 5:30  min. (2008) Courtesy of artist.

Peter Rose website

ShiftSpace
Shiftspace Demo ShiftSpace is an open source layer "above" the web that allows community members to comment  or build overlays on any web page, including adding post it-like notes, image swaps, source code modifications, and trails to other URLs, enabling artists, activists, educators, hobbyists, and others to create online contexts on top of existing websites.  (CS)  Initiated (in 2007?) by Dan Phiffer and Mushon Zer-Aviv.

ShiftSpace website
We Make Money Not Art article

Rick Silva a.k.a Abe Linkoln
Abe and Mo Sing the Blos by Rick Silva a.k.a Abe Linkoln (2006). Couresy of the artist. Installations.

Triptych.tv

Valerie Soe
Snapshot: 6 Months in the Life of a Korean American Male by Valerie Soe, 4:30 min. (2008) Courtesy of artist.

ARTIST STATEMENT
BIO

Treewave (Paul Slocum's band)
Live Performance

Tree Wave website

Ryan Trecartin
 A Family Finds Entertainment by Ryan Trecartin, 41:12 min. (2004). The artist’s entourage and himself in multiple role play characters shaped by media-immersion in a story about a mixed-up teen, skippy, and his adventures in “coming out.” Courtesy of Elizabeth Dee Gallery. Installation.

Tommy-Chat Just E-mailed Me by Ryan Trecartin, 7:15 min. (2004). Described by the artist as a “narrative video short that takes place inside and outside of an e-mail.” The artist’s friends and himself in multiple roles play Pam, a lesbian librarian with a screaming baby in a ultra-modern hotel; Tammy and Beth, in an apartment filled with installation art; and Tommy, in a secluded lake house. Courtesy of Elizabeth Dee.

Elizabeth Dee gallery article and bio

Yu-Chin Tseng
Who’s Listening 1 by Yu-chin Tseng, 7:55 min. (2003-04). A series of children are surprised. Courtesy of the artist.
Installation

Clemens von Wedemeyer and Maya Schweizer

Galerie Jocelyn Wolff

Rien du Tout by Clemens von Wedemeyer and Maya Schweizer, 30 mins. (2006) 30 min. (2006).  An open casting call has drawn dozens of young people to audition for a Medieval epic, a film to be directed by one of the most perfectly odious characters ever created.  One not so lucky kid is chosen while the others are told wait outside in the cold and the rain.  The peasants begin to revolt.  (CDM)  Courtesy of Galerie Jocelyn Wolff.

Mr. Tamale
Triptych TV by Mr. Tamale, (2008) compilation from a vlog by jimpunk, Mr. Tamale, and Rick Silva a.k.a. Abe Linkoln, --- min. (2008).  Courtesy of the artists.