Monday, December 15, 2008
Linda Wallace’s latest video art work, ‘non-western | are you or have you ever been?’ which is broken up into smaller parts and distributed on YouTube. Each part is distributed as a separate web page. There is also a focus on tagging.
FIVE parts one example page http://www.mysafehouse.eu/
on youtube
I was intrigued by theweathergroup_U initiative at the Sydney Bienale. KD said to check them out for potential VD colloboration. I have had contact with David in the group previously through an experimental video screening of ‘The Hazzards’ at UNSW. Part of the summary of what they are about as a collective:
theweathergroup_U is a collective [...]
I had chat with AD about environmental portraiture as a concept of practice within cinema theory. He put me onto some great references:
John Smith (Regeneration?)
Article – On the Street where You Live: The Films of John Smith by Adrian Danks
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/03/29/john_smith.htm
Film/Video
John Smith, Lost Sound
Stan Brakhage, The Child’s Garden and the Serious Sea,
Ross McElwee, Sherman’s [...]
There has been some discussion in the Guardian online on publishing video art on the Internet, in the article ‘Moving images stay in the dark – Why are video artists so reluctant to show their work on the internet?’ It is interesting to see that reputable institution like the Museum of Modern Art in New [...]
Also on the videoblogging mail list an some links to websites that archive earlier movements independent video production right back to the first portapaks. The Radical Software movement:
“Our purpose is to make all the historic issues of Radical Software freely available to everyone. This site is designed for easy browsing and downloading, and hosts [...]