Artie Vierkant //

⎮⎮
2010
3 interwoven videos, keyboard missing each key except the Space bar, monitor, shelf
14 min. loop

Installation shot at Area / Zone, 9 July 2010 @ Bruce High Quality Foundation University, New York NY

RBG Icon
2010
C-print on MDF
50 x 58 in.

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

Installation view

Untitled 40 x 80 in. Blue Photograph (Trapezoid)
2010
HD video loop
40 x 80 in.

Untitled 38 x 20 in. Red Photograph (Rectangle)
2010
HD Video loop
38 x 20 in.

Solvent Study – GBIV Drip
2010
HD Video
C-print with solvent

Solvent Study – B/W Gradient Down
2010
C-print with solvent
72 x 48 in.

AVATAR IN 3D
2010
HD video
2h34m

The entirety of James Cameron’s 2009 film Avatar mapped onto the surface of a slowly rotating sphere.

Created in response to the popularity and availability of a pirated copy of Avatar on bittorrent.  Re-released on the video’s platform of origin–download the full piece here: http://torrentz.com/06ba6eb51dbdbe0b2acac4245ef2a3abf315e626.

//Direct link to torrent file if trackers remove it//

Note: above version has been accelerated to display the entirety of the piece in under 5 minutes.  The available torrent plays back in real time.

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:

View higher-res jpeg

Related Videos
2008
Audio
39 minutes

12 audio arrangements created by opening each Related Video to a given YouTube clip and allowing low bandwidth to dictate the composition. (6 of 12 below)

System Audio 20080815 1759 by Artie Vierkant

System Audio 20080816 0435 by Artie Vierkant

System Audio 20080816 0406 by Artie Vierkant

System Audio 20080816 0447 by Artie Vierkant

System Audio 20080816 0444 by Artie Vierkant

System Audio 20080815 2159 by Artie Vierkant

Drawing no. 3
2008
Digital video
4 min. 43 sec.