Vinyl Video - Fake Media Archeology by Gebhard Sengmüller
In its combination of analog and digital elements VinylVideo™ is a relic of fake media archeology. At the same time, VinylVideo™ is a vision of new live video mixing possibilities. By simply placing the tone arm at different points on the record, VinylVideo™ makes possible a random access manipulation of the time axis. With the extremely reduced picture and sound quality, a new mode of audio-visual perception evolves. In this way, VinylVideo™ reconstructs a home movie medium as a missing link in the history of recorded moving images while simultaneously encompassing contemporary forms of DJ-ing and VJ-ing.
Gebhard Sengmüller is an artist working in the field of media technology, currently based in Vienna, Austria. Since 1992, he has been developing projects and installations focussing on the history of electronic media; creating alternative ordering systems for media content; and constructing autogenerative networks. His work has been shown extensively in Europe, the US and Asia, among others in venues such as Ars Electronica Linz, the Venice Biennale, the Institute of Contemporary Arts London, Postmasters Gallery NYC, the Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago, microwave Festival Hong Kong, or the ICC Center Tokyo.
eRuv: A Street History in Semacode
eRuv is a digital graffiti project installed along the route of the former Third Avenue elevated train line in lower Manhattan. The train line, dismantled in 1955, was more than just a means of transport; it was part of an important religious boundary – an eruv – for a Hasidic community on the old Lower East Side. Using semacodes, the former boundary is reconstructed and mapped back onto the space of the city, and pedestrians with camera phones can access location-specific historical content.
- Elliot Malkin, http://dziga.com/eruv/
BLDGBLOG: Landscape Futures Super-Workshop, January 2011
WONDER WOMAN
La Petite Bibliothèque Infernale
The word Inferno or Enfer defines a closed part of the French National Library, a place where forbidden litterature was hidden. The whole idea of a dark side lib containing anticonformist content seemed like a nice way of labelling a collection of books, ephemera, leaflets, posters, stickers, etc. that aims at exploring, sometimes, the other side of a vast territoire concerned with book design and editorial design.
Research-Creation
Pseudoarchaeology at the Art Gallery of Ontario, 2008-2010
Pictoria Webster’s: Inspiration to Completion by John Carrera
Mark Dion - Tate Thames Dig
