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.

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

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

This is how the piece looks in progression over time:

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