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1. The Moving Line

Video from Mary Pearson of High Places. I came across this via the High Places blog this morning. Looks like footage from the California/Oregon border but I can’t be sure.

2. Severed Heads Live at Metro TV July 1982

This is part of a live set we did at Metro TV, a community video center, in mid 1982. We did this to demonstrate a new video synthesizer developed by Stephen Jones, who at that stage was not involved with the band. Our analogue synthesizers were supposed to interact with his analogue video device using control voltages, and to a certain extent it worked but we all decided to do a reworking at the beginning of 1983.

3. "In Bits" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music

Dave Harper and I curated “In Bits”, a project screening on BAM’s sign in Brooklyn. See below for video documentation of Joe Merrell’s piece “Green Language.”

4. Lydia Moyer- Mountain Loop (remix) at East Village Radio July 2008

For the month of July, I screened Mountain Loop (remix) by video artist Lydia Moyer at East Village Radio. See below for documentation. Mountain Loop (remix) is a response to the prevalence of strip mining in the Appalachian region of Virginia, an environmentally damaging practice in which mountains are leveled in order to access and remove resources. In the video, spectral blue lights overlay flickering silhouettes of mountains and surrounding clouds, suggesting their imminent destruction.

5. ((wave (2002) by Maria Dumlao

6. Videos by Julia Hechtman

i heart photograph posted photographs from artist Julia Hechtman a few weeks back. After reading about Hechtman, I checked out her site and discovered her video work. The pieces below, Before the Fall and the Vanishing, both use basic video techniques to suggest a human desire to command natural forces.

7. Electronics in the World of Tomorrow (1968) by Erkki Kurenniemi


I came across this video today via Ed Halter’s delicious feed. Until now, I hadn’t heard of Erkki Kurenniemi. Clearly, I have some catching up to do.

8. MEDIEVAL WEAPONRY by Always

Always aka Alex Vivian posted a new music video. Alex is amazing! I think this is his first music video to date:

9. Viki- Cadillacs on Fire at East Village Radio February 2008

I screened loops off of Viki’s DVD Cadillacs on Fire at the East Village Radio studio in February 2008. I think it looked fantastic! See below for pics.

10. Official Tourist

My friend Jon sent these videos over yesterday. Official Tourist is a side project of artist Kamau Amu Patton, whose work I’ve been hunting for online ever since I read about his show at Machine Project last year. (They’re actually still hosting one of his videos, which you can view here. ) Patton does the video work and designs the costumes for Official Tourist. I’m amped to see his creations, but I’m still waiting for the day when more of his cult-inspired low budget infomercials go online. Official Tourist also produce a line of hoodies.




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11. Joe Merrell- Fire, San Bernardino (2005) at East Village Radio

Photographs of Joe Merrell’s Fire, San Bernardino at East Village Radio, January 2008

12. Public Image

13. Operations of Sound


the Old Operating Theater

14. Carsten Nicolai- fades (2006)

15. Candice Breitz- Babel Series (1999)

I came across this project yesterday, and it’s quite incisive and brilliant. I wish I lived in New York when it screened here in 2000 at the New Museum. See below for the full text explaining the piece and stills.