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Recently restored by the artist, and added to distribution thirty years after the catalytic event that inspired it, Inforeceptor is a lighthearted yet ominous anticipation of the cresting World Wide Web, marked by the launch of the first public web browser, Mosaic, in 1993. Shot on both Hi-8 video and Super 8 film, and incorporating whimsical effects, the playful hybrid approach to image making also reflects the progress of information technology, and how media has altered the human experience of the physical world. Lucas writes: "I completed this video in my last semester at Cooper Union in spring 1994 when there was a spectacle around the information superhighway in news media, commercials and magazines, before Netscape Navigator was released, also in 1994."
Information Gladly Given but Safety Requires Unnecessary Conversation
Tom Kalin
1995, 1:03 min, color, sound
Inherent in the Rhumb Line is a silent motion drawing. "With the advent of the rhumb line — a line of constant bearing or loxodrome — a cognitive pattern developed in the Western world that allowed the possibility to conceive pillage on voyages of discovery. Inherent in the Rhumb Line is an imperative for use — regardless of consequence — a flattened convolution that marries landscape with loot and preordination."
In a vast underground cave, Schneemann and seven nude women perform the ritualized actions of Interior Scroll — reading the text as each woman slowly extracts a scroll from her vagina. The scroll embodies the primacy of an extended visual line shaped as both concept and action. The extracted text...
Interscape was first performed at the Eisenhower Theater, Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. in April 2000. The dance is made up of a series of trios and duets, as well as ensemble passages in which the dancers circle the stage in big leaps. Robert Rauschenberg designed the décor and costumes, naming his design Interscape Mirage; the piece is performed to John Cage's One, composed in 1991.
Intriguing People (Enredando As Pessoas)
Eder Santos
1995, 70 min, color, sound, Portuguese with English subtitles
Brazilian artist Eder Santos's first feature length work, shot in Spain, employs a rich and varied score by Stephen Vitiello to mobilize the mystic journey of an image prophet who can project his vision into the world. This prophet finds himself in a landscape where images — regardless of their...
Haunted by a cipher transmitted from invasive wildlife in Greenwood Cemetery, a caller hires a local advertising firm to address the situation and assess the link between organic systems and encrypted data.
Loosely structured as a letter home, a "writer" explicates the longings, nostalgia and regrets that exile, even voluntary exile, produces. B. Ruby Rich, writing in The Village Voice, states, "A subtle answer to travelogue mentalities... turns the tables on the tourists in their native land and...
It Starts at Home is a song-and-dance performance sitcom in which our hapless hero Mike encounters his fifteen minutes of fame. When Mike's ordinary domestic activities are inadvertently cablecast to the televisions of a receptive viewing public, a fast-talking entrepreneur promises him cable...
