lunedì 16 settembre 2013

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Is it possible to understand “power” in relation to its own flexibility?
Modern video cameras, from this point of view, can trace parallel lives. Whether night or day, memory challenges eaxh person’s possibilities. That is to say that the fragments made possible by “ancient” super 8 have passed into present time where even “stand-by” is indispensible.
Is everything indispensible, then?
What moves necessity?
The artist, of video or other, is at the service of which indispensability?

E’ possibile considerare “la potenza” di uno strumento in relazione alla sua flessibilità?
Le moderne videocamere da questo punto di vista possono tracciare vite parallele. Che sia giorno o notte, la “memoria” sfida la possibilità del fare di ognuno. Intendo dire che dai frammenti resi possibili dagli “antichissimi” super 8 si è passati ad un tempo presente dove nemmeno lo stand-by è indispensabile.
Risulta tutto, quindi, indispensabile?
Cosa muove la necessità?
L’artista, che sia video artista o altro, è a servizio di quale indispensabilità?

lunedì 9 settembre 2013

Bill Viola, The Raft, maggio 2004

Bill Viola - The Reflecting Pool

Marina Abramovic: The Abramovic Method, my body, my performance, my test...

Bill Viola - Acceptance, 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJQmV8aPNao

Silvia

Apple cutting videos

Hi all, here are the videos from last class.  (apple cutting and putting back together).
I had a few troubles uploading them, and decided to put them together (with NO editing) and share them through I-movie. If you cannot download them and wish to have them on file I'll bring them to next class. 
have a great day! 

*S 



https://www.dropbox.com/s/09zqox0ocaf1bim/AS215%20project1%20Apples.mov





Nico Nevolo: Bill Viola "The Crossing"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHqhaH6m9pY

sabato 7 settembre 2013

The Dreamers (2013) consists of seven individual screens, which depict underwater portraits of people who appear to be sleeping. Presented in the gallery on the lower-ground floor, and accompanied by the gentle sounds of water, the viewer is led to feel as if they themselves are submerged with these figures. In this spiritual, immersive subterranean environment, ultimate interpretation is left for the viewer to define, through the lens of their own experiences.



http://www.blainsouthern.com/exhibitions/2013/bill-viola-frustrated-actions-and-futile-gestures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnfdzvDpGvY

Flaminia

Marina Abramovich & Bill Viola - Assignment

Dear students,

In this post you can find the text about the work of Marina Abramovich and Bill Viola.

I would like that every lesson a couple of you may talk about a video artist.

A short speech to introduce their work.

You can read this text and search a video to upload i the blog to project during the lesson.