idio - Indicates individuality, peculiarity, isolation, or spontaneity
[Greek, from idios, personal, peculiar, separate]- morphous Variant of -morphic. Indicates possession of (some specified) shape or form.
idiomorphic - Having the characteristic shape. Said of well-crystallized minerals.
[From Greek idio-morphos, having one's own form.]
Song At Midnight: Optical De-dramatization Engine (O.D.E.) applied in 7-hour cycles to Ma-Xu Weibang's "Yeban gesheng ", 1937
This work of cinema-software includes a song that, true to its name, begins at midnight.
CAUTION: Those who have epilepsy or sensitivity to strobing light should avoid viewing this work.
Optical De-dramatization Engine (O.D.E.) applied in 40-hour cycles to Thomas Ince's "The Invaders", 1912
Cinema-software adaptation of the 1912 Hollywood film, "The Invaders" by Thomas Ince. This project was produced for No Man's Land, a 2006 event organized by Womanifesto, a biannual international art exchange.
C-SPAN x 4
recently featured at Whitney Artport, and currently accessible via Whitney Artport archives
Video archives documenting public policy-making are available at the CSPAN.org website as a public service of the lucrative American cable television industry. CSPAN x 4 wades into these video streams with four software programs, as critical homage to CSPAN and as another, annotative, public service.
The Interrupting Annotator presents
C-SPAN KARAOKE (2004)
Free software for collaborative and convivial video viewing of public policy-making. CSPAN KARAOKE displays videos that stream from public archives on the Internet, to the accompaniment of karaoke tunes.
THE INTERRUPTING ANNOTATOR
previewed at "Free Cooperation" conference, University at Buffalo, April 2004)
This on-line software tool is for collaborative annotation of on-line video streams. This prototype is a work-in-progress using video streams from C- SPAN.
HF Critical Mass applied to
Cinematography by NASA
(produced for Herndon Gallery, Antioch College, Ohio. March-April 2004)
There were two crewed landings on the moon during 1971, the same year that the experimental film "Critical Mass" by Hollis Frampton was produced. Apollo 14 launched January 31 and landed on the moon February 5 on the site named Fra Mauro. It returned to Earth on February 9. The next Apollo mission, Apollo 15, launched on July 26 and landed on the moon July 30. The landing site was Hadley Rille /Apennines. Apollo 15 returned to Earth on August 7, 1971. (Use of Apollo moon exploration archives suggested by Herndon Gallery curators Julia Dzwonkoski and Kye Potter.)
STRAINS OF 2003
(produced for Version>03 Festival, 3/03 Chicago)
Exhibition of a selection of web-streamed news videos, collected with a slow modem, for the application of altered time-frame with AMG STRAIN software.
Do
Video Objects Have Tails?
(begun 2002)
A work of interactive cinema and video improvisation performance using
laptop computer and
experimental software ("EG Serene", "HF Critical Mass",
"AMG Strain", and others). The performance incorporates videos
from various contributors including Rob Danielson, Julia Dzwonkoski, Rob
Fish, Chris Hill, Keith Sanborn, Brian Springer, Ghen Zando-Dennis and
Julie Zando-Dennis.
EG
Serene
(freely available software,
released december 2002)
EG
SERENE is based on the 1970 film, Serene Velocity, by the artist
Ernie Gehr. As the software released before it, EG SERENE
is available for the improvising of digital video playback, adopting and
"open sourcing" the structure of the earlier film as the basis
for temporal reconstruction of your own selected digital videos (quicktime
movies).
HF
Critical Mass
(freely available software, 2002)
HF
CRITICAL MASS is based on the 1971 film, Critical Mass, by the
late Hollis Frampton, and this software is dedicated to his memory. HF
CRITICAL MASS
adopts the structure of the earlier film as an interface for improvising
digital video.
description and download revised version 12/02
AMG Strain (freely available software, 2002)
AMG STRAIN adopts the structure of Anne McGuire's 1992 deconstructive video "Strain Andromeda, The" as an interface for improvising digital video.
description and download revised version 3/03
Surface
Tension: Applied Memory Mutation Software
(freely available software, beta, 2002)
A free software utility (PC and MAC versions) in the service of memory-shifting,
designed for use with quicktime videos: 'raw footage', unedited archival
documents, movie 'out-takes', surveillance tapes, porn, home movies, etc.
Muscle and Blood Piano (begun 2000)
A video improvisation performance using laptop computer and experimental software specifically authored for improvisations with video projection of the 1922 film "Nosferatu" by F.W.Murnau.
Muscle and Blood Piano performance info.
CD-ROM selection of interactive applets from Muscle and Blood Piano is available. Contact for further info.
CD-ROM collection of short interactive works. This collection obsessively stages and re-stages the performance of the Interface as a kind of Borgesian mirror. Tokens of encounter and exchange (symbolically deployed as virtual objects, "puppets") circulate, in an leaky economy of control, between the viewer and the machine. In "wildernessPuppets" the displayed image is tethered to the code as that code's simulacrum or puppet. New works are occasionally added to this compilation-in-progress (or older ones deleted).
Contact for further info about cd-rom.
Pirate
Radio Muzak
(1998)
A collaboration with Julia Dzwonkowski and E.M.M.A. media collective.