The 'Surveillance and/in Everyday Life: Monitoring Pasts, Presents & Futures' conference is on at the University of Sydney 20-21 February 2012. I'm presenting on 'The Artist as Voyeur' in a panel called 'Artistic Practices and Interventions' and I'll be showing some of my covert footage from Japan, including this one:
Criminal trials have traditionally favoured live, physically present, embodied human testimony. A paradigm shift is occurring with the increasing use of video technologies in criminal proceedings, hinting at a future immaterial, digitized posthuman courtroom. My PhD research at the University of Sydney explores the expanding use of video technologies and the associated disappearance of the human body from the criminal justice system.
Thursday, 26 January 2012
Doing Time: Depth of Surface
Spanish artists Patricia Gómez and María
Jesús González have been commissioned to create a work that explores the archeology and past lives of the historic Philadelphia Holmesburg Prison (1896-1995). The artists detached the surface of the prison walls, the 'skin of architecture', using a technique known as 'strappo'. The resulting works act as silent witnesses to the prison events and tangible records of the former residents and staff. The exhibition also features surveillance-style video installations.
http://vimeo.com/31812447
http://www.philagrafika.org/
http://vimeo.com/31812447
http://www.philagrafika.org/
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
Weegee: Murder is My Business
The work of Weegee (1899-1968) is being exhibited at the International Center of Photography in New York:
http://www.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/weegee-murder-my-business
Weegee documented New York crime scenes in his dramatic photographs and text. This exhibition is drawn from the Weegee Archive at ICP with recreations of his apartment and exhibitions.
http://www.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/weegee-murder-my-business
Weegee documented New York crime scenes in his dramatic photographs and text. This exhibition is drawn from the Weegee Archive at ICP with recreations of his apartment and exhibitions.
Saturday, 7 January 2012
Anakhronismos: video art screening 27 January 2012
I've been invited to curate the next Illuminations video art screening at Bondi Pavilion:
Friday 27 January 2012
6 - 9 pm (one night only)
Here's my catalogue essay:
αναχρονισμός Anakhronismos ΑΝΑΧΡΟΝΙΣΜΟΣ
ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from Greek anakhronismos, from ana-
‘backward’ + khronos ‘time.’
Our daily lives are chronologically arranged, time measures our
moves, structures our internal narratives and puzzles philosophers and
scientists alike. We waste, take, kill and do time, yet the concept remains
elusive. We dream of time travel to a nostalgic past or utopian future: how
ironic is it that the quintessential time machine, Dr Who’s TARDIS, is an anachronistic
British police box? Paradoxically, anachronism has currency in video art
practices with the technologies and content implicated by artists.
Experimentation with the obsolete and futuristic, the relic and the
speculative, and an awareness that our methods today face extinction tomorrow,
are part of the joy of connecting past, present and future in video art. Time
code is the defining language of digital video. Artists find expression in
frames per second, with editing software allowing temporal relationships to be splintered,
echoed, layered and suspended, expanding non-linear possibilities. Video, the
‘art of time’ according to video historian Michael Rush, has been used by
artists to foreground the subjective experience of both duration and
timelessness. Moments can be dramatically fast-forwarded or extended, slowed, repeated,
and revisited with re-editing and through looping repetition, a mesmerising endless
episode may be created.
With the works of Anne Ferran, Yoram Gross, Matthew Hopkins, Brian
Joyce & Trevor Ditcham, Carolyn McKay, Kate Richards & Ross Gibson, and
Vanessa White, viewers can reflect upon the relentless process of the present
falling into the past, the future slipping into the present, and the sweet
anticipation of the future remaining infinitely out of reach.
Carolyn McKay
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