Artie Vierkant //

Daylight / Twilight
2010
HD video diptych
1 hr. 58 min. / 2 hr. 02 min.

The films Daylight (1996) and Twilight (2008) rearranged frame by frame based on each frame’s brightness value.  Daylight runs brightest to darkest while Twilight runs darkest to brightest.

Daylight / Twilight in full on UbuWeb.

Embedded videos above are a sample of the first two minutes of each film.

Installation shots below from Line Item in a Table of Opposites:

Scripting by Keith McKnight

Recommended Film Festival
2008
Installation

A film festival displaying in their entirety the first 100 films recommended to me on my Amazon.com account, in conjunction with my solo show Render the Following at Kelly Writers House.  Obtained each of the films through a filesharing network to demonstrate how services to aggregate cultural content are largely analogous. The 100 films streamed over a period of approximately eight days.

Viewers were invited to enjoy the films publicly (with provided speakers) or privately (with a set of provided headphones). A live webcam was set up, capturing the films and providing a small amount of physical context for the “festival.” The content was set up to stream with the service ustream.tv, which provided a connected chat room to allow for visitor communication.