⎮⎮
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

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

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 – 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

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.