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Youngblood w/Phil Morton

Hey everyone, here's a pretty awesome video of Gene Youngblood lecturing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the 70's, manipulated by the Sandin IP. It's sooper cool.

Gene Youngblood at SAIC from Phil Morton on Vimeo.

Optional Reading

Hello all,

I know I've already got some optional reading for you guys, but in the case that you're looking for a little more help on thinking sculpturally about our immaterial media (i.e. expanding cinema/video into space), I found a link to an essay by Vito Acconci that might be helpful. Also, it may be good too look back at the Gene Youngblood chapter on intermedia and refresh yourself on some of those concepts. See you in the morning.

Vito Acconci - Television, Furniture, and Sculpture: The Room with the American View

Also, you may find this reading illuminating to the other readings we've been doing about Peter Campus and a video of his we will watch tomorrow called Double Vision. Double Vision document.

U B U W E B - Film & Video: Peter Campus - Double Vision
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Bill Viola - Peter Campus Image and Self

I found it interesting that Campus got so deep into his own work of Self image projection pieces that he needed to get out. Campus piece, "Head of a Man with Death on His Mind," was himself starring intensely at the camera (the Viewer). I found this piece interesting because you have to rely on the title of the installation to understand what is going on. Peter Campuses pieces were so deep in the inner soul of existence portrayed in high contrast of black and white footage, I wish I could go see his works.

Uh-Oh It's Magic...

A Line Describing a Cone

I like the line McCall described between Avant-Garde film makers and film artists. "The two worlds sometimes seem like a Crick and Watson's double helix, spiraling closely around each other without ever quite meeting".

As a New Media artist I consider myself to be more connected with film than other mediums, but the question of "is it art?" always seems to be of concern. Is it art if it's a music video? What about a commercial? Many people would say no, I say yes.

The youtube documentation of A Line Describing a Cone makes McCall's written description of his work more understandable. Especially in that he gave a lot of credit to those who viewed his pieces and he described his works as an individual experience that is different for everyone. In this clip on youtube you can listen to the viewers conversations and see how they are experiencing the piece uniquely.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vr_lYSTfIo