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Civilization, 2008
Blu-ray disc, color, sound, 02:40 min., loop + info Civilization depicts a journey from hell to heaven interpreted through the modern language of film using computer-enhanced found footage. This epic video mural contains over 300 individual channels of looped video blended into a multi-layered seamless tableau of interconnecting images that illustrates a contemporary, satirical take on the concepts of Heaven and Hell. |
Cathedral, 2008
Blu-ray disc, color, sound, 09:32 min., loop + info Filmed during the Christmas season at the Toronto Eaton Centre shopping mall, Cathedral shows consumers circulating within the multi-level environment, a familiar space to most Americans, that has been re-interpreted and presented as a kaleidoscopic and disorienting landscape. This cyclical montage is influenced by studies in time and motion by famed industrialists, Frederick Winslow Taylor and Frank Gilbreth. |
Wall of Death, 2001
Single-channel DVD, b&w, sound, from 35mm source 02:40 min. Collection New Line Cinema, Los Angeles + info In the 1930's carnival act of the same name as ‘The Wall of Death', a motorcyclist rides around a wooden drum, maintaining a delicate state of equilibrium between centrifugal force and gravity. The film editing technique used in this 2001 piece is inspired by Kinetoscope films that were popular around the same time the act was performed. Each of the motorcyclist's revolutions is presented as a loop that creates the illusion of continuous, perpetual motion. |
Cyclorama, 1999
9-channel DVD, color, sound 3:20 min., loop Collection San Francisco Museum of Modern Art + info Time-lapse sunrises in Cyclorama, filmed from nine revolving restaurants across North America are merged into one space. Three time zones are presented inside a cylindrical enclosure that allows the viewer to observe the moving landscapes from a constructed “perfect” vantage point. |
Sea of Tranquility, 2006
Single-channel DVD color, sound 06:20 min., loop + info The American spacecraft, the Eagle, is shown in Sea of Tranquility, a computer-generated time-lapse of the lunar landing site of Apollo 11 in 1969 shot over a number of years. This time period is compressed into seconds, showing the spacecraft and the American flag gradually disintegrating over time as they are bombarded by thousands of micro-meteorites. The sound is taken from recorded radio transmissions between mission control and the Tranquility base-all dialogue has been removed leaving only the radio carrier signals, static and interference. |
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Getaway, 1999
DVD, color, sound 02:40 min., loop Collection San Francisco Museum of Modern Art + info Shot from the point-of-view of a passenger aircraft approaching the main runway at Los Angeles International Airport, the high-speed film footage in Getaway is gradually slowed to create the feeling of deceleration as we get closer to the tarmac. |
HalfLife (Surveillance Channel), 2002
3-channel DVD, color, sound 09:41 min., loop Collection IFEMA, Madrid Collection Metronome Foundation for Contemporary Art, Barcelona + info The multi-channel video installation HalfLife juxtaposes surveillance footage of video gamers in cyber-cafés playing the popular video game, ‘Counter-Strike’, with a live video feed of the game they are playing. The surveillance channel shows their expressions from the cross-hairs’ point-of-view while the game engine channel captures their virtual actions inside the game-world and presents the interplay and interactivity between both |
HalfLife (Game Engine channel), 2002
3-channel DVD, color, sound 09:41 min., loop Collection IFEMA, Madrid Collection Metronome Foundation for Contemporary Art, Barcelona + info The virtual world of ‘Counter-Strike’ is re-photographed from a live video feed from each player’s point of view as they play against each other in the same environment or “map”. The gamers’ actions are recorded as they engage each other in various missions: when a character is killed off in the game, the real player and the corresponding surveillance footage disappears. |
Approach, 1999
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Superstar, 1999
Single-channel DVD, color, sound, rear projection 04:41 min., loop + info Inspired by Yves Klein’s Leap into the Void (1960), Superstar was commissioned by Creative Time to be presented on the Jumbotron screen in Times Square, New York City. The subject appears perpetually frozen in time while the document of the moment itself slowly descends. Filmed in a pre-Matrix era, the performance in Superstar was captured with 180 cameras mounted in a 360 degree ring that show a 1/500 second wedge of time. |
 Sequel, 2001 Single-channel DVD from 35 mm w/audio 02:50 min. + info Film footage of Sylvester Stallone in Brambilla's 1993 debut feature-film, Demolition Man, is re-photographed through the gate of a 35mm projector and presented as the Sequel. The movement of the film gradually begins to slow until the light from the projector lamp begins to disintegrate the celluloid film. |
 Pulse, 1999 3-channel DVD, color, sound, rear projection 01:48 min., loop + info Referencing Eadweard Muybridge’s black and white motion-study photographs, Pulse presents life-size projections of male subjects aged 8, 14, 24, 48, and 76 running on electric treadmills set to 5.5 miles per hour. They wear heart monitors that trigger a strobe behind each subject. The speed of the individual sections is manipulated so that the strobes become synchronous to match the slowest heartbeat of the 24 year-old subject. |
 O% Health (Dramatization), 2002 Single-channel DVD, color, sound 01:00 min., loop + info Based on a re-enactment of a stabbing incident that took place outside of a cyber-café in 1999, 0% Health is filmed in the style of reality television at the actual location of the incident. The graphic content is exaggerated by the treatment of the action and its endless repetition, while the term 0% Health" references the state a video gamer experiences during a virtual death in the game ‘Counter-Strike'. |
 Continue, 1985/1997 Single-channel, DVD, color, silent 00:07 min., loop + info A man walking towards the viewer, in Continue, is filmed holding a card in which the same footage is projected in reverse. This effect creates an endless loop where he is caught perpetually in motion between two finite points in space. |
 Arcadia, 2000 Unique Six-channel DVD, color, sound 02:17 min., loop Collection Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York + info Presented by Creative Time in the Brooklyn Anchorage, this six-channel video installation of the “Millennium Force” in Ohio, is composed of two towers with screens that show the slow ascent and the 300-foot drop, that takes place at 92 mph in the span of three seconds. The towers create a narrow perspective, placing the viewer outside of the particular “sweet” spot from which they could best observe the full ride of the world’s highest and fastest roller coaster. |
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