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To the accompaniment of the only extant recording of James Joyce reading from his own work, Donegan uses a clear cellophane hood and a pane of glass to create another of her "face paintings." The performance is intercut with the artist painting over her own image as it appears on a video monitor,...
Prisoner’s Dilemma is a two-part tape of a video performance done on January 22, 1974, at 112 Greene Street, New York, as part of Avalanche’s Video Performance exhibition. The performance is structured on a problem in game theory, a “non-zero sum game,” in which both players can win or lose at...
Problem Solvers is Paper Rad's ideal Saturday morning cartoon. The episode adheres to the parameters of a children's TV program—in structure (half-hour format with space for commercial breaks), method (an "economic approach to animation and script writing") and content (a story arc anchored by a "post-hippy new-age message"). While emulative of a classic formula, the cartoon is strangely fresh; earnest and untainted by adult-flavored parody, Problem Solvers exemplifies Paper Rad's post-ironic art.
Combining artfully designed sets and digital processing, Santos recreates the historic Apollo lunar landing, using simulation to interrogate representation. Relating a long-circulated rumor that the landing was actually faked in a NASA film studio, Santos negotiates the increasingly blurry line between fact and fiction. As he notes in his on-screen text, the Internet makes any purported fact "easy to say, hard to prove."
In Proposal for QUBE, which was designed as a video installation, d'Agostino comments on the dangers of "unchecked mass communication," and the manipulation inherent in television. He conceived of a theoretical model for an interactive video cablecast for the TWO-WAY QUBE cable television system...
In this work, Rosler presents a short but incisive statement. A mechanical toy figure dressed as an American soldier plays "God Bless America" on a trumpet. The camera pans down, revealing that the toy's camouflage-clad trouser leg has been rolled up to uncover a mechanism that looks uncannily like a prosthetic limb.
A documentation of a live performance at New York University, Pryings is a graphic exploration of the physical and psychological dynamics of male/female interaction, a study in control, violation and resistance. Acconci writes, "The performer will not come to terms, she shuts herself off, inside the box (monitor), my attempt is to force her to face out, fit into the performer's role, come out in the open."
"The sub-personalities of me, as baby, athlete, witch and artist are synthesized in this film of superimpositions, intensities, and color layers coming together through the powers of film." — Barbara Hammer
In this documentation of a performance at New York University, an overhead camera circles above Acconci and Kathy Dillon. In a dark auditorium, Acconci walks in a circle around Dillon, while she moves in the center. Staring at each other, they try to maintain eye contact while following the other's changes in direction and speed. Acconci has stated, "I might be trying to crowd her, drive her to a standstill—she might be trying to draw me into her, stop me from circling...I might be trying to remain an observer, detached, on the outside."
This unique documentary on the downtown New York music scene is a collage of music, performance and commentary in which Atlas captures the energy and pluralism that characterize this urban milieu.
