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

Fluorescent On Fluorescent Off
2010
Styrofoam, histogram curves from video stills, autoexposure
24 x 48 x 115 in.

Exposure Adjustment on a Sunset
2009
HD Video
39 min

Video of a full sunset altered so that the brightness level remains constant from beginning to end.

Exposure Adjustment on a Sunset on UbuWeb.

This is how the piece looks in progression over time:

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Framing Exercise
2009
Digital print
65 x 42 in.

Detail:

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OK
2009
Digital print
65 x 42 in.

Detail:

Sixteen-point Panorama
2009
Digital print
7′ x 15′

Studies in the Beijing urban landscape and hyperreal photographic representation using commercial software.  Created thanks to the Howard A. Silverstein and Patricia Bleznak Silverstein Abroad Photography Seminar to Beijing, People’s Republic of China, University of Pennsylvania 2009.

Ten-point Panorama
2009
Digital print
30″ x 90″

Four-point Panorama
2009
Digital print
28″ x 50″

(detail)

Paris (2)
2009
Digital print
48 x 32 in.
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Rehearsal, Drew Daniel of Matmos with the Princeton Laptop Orchestra
2009
Archival digital print on canvas
41.5 x 92 in.

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Self Portrait with Wawa Bag
2008
C-Prints on glass
98 x 80 in.

Non-site Exercise
2008
Altered Wikipedia page

The full Wikipedia entry on Robert Smithson is mirrored from the bottom.

Link to the state of the page in the above image.