"Pet, Fluffy, Cheezy, Bunny..."

Alix Pearlstein

1993, 5:21 min, color, sound

Writes Pearlstein: "This piece, made as a continuous loop, literally traces the process of a stream of consciousness, such that the process itself becomes the subject. It delineates the way in which one thought leads to the next by associations made through language, sound, image, and action....

Asymptomatic Carrier

Frank Heath

2013, 14:40 min, color, sound, HD video

The lone resident of North Brother Island in the East River attempts to procure a new flag and finds out just how long he’s been away during his self-imposed isolation, which has surprising correspondence with the infamous quarantine of Mary Mallon (aka “Typhoid Mary”) on the same island nearly a century before.

Background Story

Kristin Lucas

2010, 2:12 min, color, silent

Background Story continues Lucas' ongoing examination of the isolating and disorienting effects of electronic media on contemporary life. Using Amazon's Mechanical Turks program, which connects employers with an anonymous labor pool to complete jobs referred to as "HITs" (Human Intelligence Tasks), Lucas and her collaborator/employee create a self-reflexive rewrite of the creation story, using text and fair use background images.

Electronic Linguistics

Gary Hill

1977, 3:39 min, b&w, sound

In Electronic Linguistics, small electronic shapes on the screen, moving in a gradually accelerating rhythm, serve as visual interpretations of an electronic sound. In its construction of a language of electronic images and sound, this is a precursor to Hill's later, more complex investigations.

Infinite Doors

Takeshi Murata

2010, 2:04 min, color, sound

Infinite Doors draws on the determined staying power and unremitting stimulation of prize-oriented game show culture. Utilizing clips from The Price is Right, Murata edits a kinetic series of prize unveils. Unrelenting audience applause and an excessively animated announcer make the clip at once comical and peculiar. The superfluity of reward and overload of visual cues become absurd in their excess and begin to smother the very excitement they are meant to induce.

Poemfield No. 2

Stan VanDerBeek

1966, 5:40 min, color, sound, 16 mm film on HD video

WINGS2

Maggie Lee

2013, 1:09 min, color, sound

The artist drinks a Red Bull—the Austrian energy drink that claims in its advertising campaigns that it will “give you wings”—against the backdrop of a 2013 ad for the beverage by cartoonist Horst Sambo. Featuring music by NYC Vanity Fair.