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INTERROGATING ELECTRONIC LITERATURE
A video-essay by Talan Memmott and David Prater
Does electronic literature have a future? Is Google the end of the World? What is the role of digital poetics in global politics? These issues and more are discussed with J. R. Carpenter, John Cayley, Maria Mencia, Scott Rettberg, Alexandra Saemmer, Roberto Simanowski, and Jaka Železnikar.
The video-essay was shot September 2011 at the ELMCIP Electronic Literature and New Media Art Seminar in Ljubljana Slovenia.
(running time 23:34)
The project is available on YouTube.
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NONCE.EXECUTOR (disposable language)
Something like -- making video art by throwing dice. What emerges is six and a half minutes of segue. Heavy signal processing... Words, words, words... Sound design...
(running time 06:30)
The project is available on YouTube.
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INGENSTANS
Ingenstans (meaning "nowhere" in Swedish) is a video project about living between languages, trading American city life for village life in Sweden, or somewhere, nowhere.
As a whole, the film could be taken as a (quasi-)ethnographic film, combining elements of documentary film with narrative film, spurious accounts of cultural icons, and reenactments of actual events. INGENSTANS was shot in Karlskrona Sweden, Copenhagen, Paris, Amsterdam, and California. The video is in English and Swedish with fleeting moments in Bulgarian, Italian, French, and Chinese.
(running time 20 minutes)
Ingenstans made its debut November 8, 2009 at The Network as a Space and Medium for Collaborative Interdisciplinary Art Practice Conference in Bergen Norway.
You can also find a collection of stills from the project here.
The project is now available online.
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THE LAND/WAVE SERIES is a collection of videos based on the notion of a poetics of passing by. Using video shot from moving trains, automobiles and boats as a source, the video signal is heavily processed to aestheticize and abstract the event itself. The signal processing begins prior to the digital editing and image manipulation of software – as the source is digitized it passes through a ‘prepared’ firewire cable that has ‘hacked’ or ‘bent’ to create unpredictable effects. This initial processing -- as the video source data passes from camera to computer -- is a passing by that is poeticized through the intervention. The collected second order source is then edited and manipulated in a more traditional software-based digital video editing setting.
The Land/Wave Series is a continuing project. Two of the videos have been featured on DVBlog.
You can view the series here (youtube).
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NAMELESS FILMS is a collaboration with Sandy Florian.
During 2007 and 2008 Nameless Films produced four short video projects . The videos in this series were all shot in Paris France. Nameless Films has been featured on DVBlog, and presented at the Pixelerations Festival (Providence Rhode Island, 2008)
You can view the series on the Nameless Films YouTube Channel
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THE TRIUMPH OF HAUNTOLOGY
(in collaboration with Frederick Young)
This project remixes shots from Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will, with Paul Celan's reading of his work, and Walter Benjamin's writing on Mickey Mouse. In the words of Frederick Young, the video represents a "spectral politics."
...on YouTube
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