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

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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Man’s Head Convincingly Explodes (Topos)
2009
Styrofoam
24 x 48 x 50 in.

Displays the topography of a brief video clip. Each piece of styrofoam represents a histogram curve derived from successive video stills.

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]

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).

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.

Star Trek Voyager Singularity
2008
Digital Video, NTSC
56 min. (Embedded video above has been sped up to play in 2 minutes)