Artie Vierkant //

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.

Framing Exercise
2009
Digital print
65 x 42 in.

Detail:

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OK
2009
Digital print
65 x 42 in.

Detail:

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]

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.