Artie Vierkant // » Video http://artievierkant.com/folio Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:26:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Daylight / Twilight (2010) http://artievierkant.com/folio/daylight-twilight-2010/ http://artievierkant.com/folio/daylight-twilight-2010/#comments Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:17:08 +0000 admin http://artievierkant.com/folio/?p=136

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:

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Scripting by Keith McKnight

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

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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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You Can Reply to This Message (series)
2008-2009
Performance; Digital Video, 720p HD
Above: Second video in series, 23 min.

Participants were placed in a room with access to text message-enabled cell phones and are dictated instructions written by an anonymous group contracted through a crowdsourcing infrastructure and supplanted with instructions from Darren Wershler’s Tapeworm.

[First video in series, 47 min.]
[List of instructions for first video]

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Disaster 1998-2008
2008
Digital Video
2 hr. 26 min. (Embedded video above is a 2-minute excerpt)

Motion information from every Hollywood “disaster movie” released in the ten year period between 1998 and 2008 (Armageddon, The Core, The Day After Tomorrow, Deep Impact, Flood, Hard Rain, The Perfect Storm).

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