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American Museum of the Moving Image

Jeremy Blake: Moving Images, 1998-2003
Jeremy Blake
DVDs

Jeremy Blake creates abstract video pieces that combine elements of painting, animation, and narrative cinema. Blake recently created animation sequences for the movie Punch-Drunk Love. Blake's new video piece, 1906, will be shown, along with a selection of other works. Check www.movingimage.us for a complete schedule.

Jeremy Blake: Moving Images is presented in conjunction with the presentation of Blake's work in The 59th Minute: Video Art on the Times Square Astrovision, presented by Creative Time and Panasonic.

Related Links:
Feigen Contemporary
The 59th Minute
Creative Time


1906 by Jeremy Blake


DARE
, 2003
Fabrica
Custom software, video cameras

Designed for Moving Image by Fabrica, Benetton's design and communication research center in Treviso Italy, DARE consists of four computer-based artworks—Draw, Face, Grid, and Model—formed by images, gestures, and drawings input by visitors during the course of the installation. The title DARE refers both to the Italian verb "to give" and the English verb "to be bold." DARE connects the 'now' of play with the 'then' of narrative, and, in doing so, blurs the line between author and audience.

DARE is presented with support from Benetton.


Related Links:
Fabrica


DARE by Fabrica



Liquid Time Series: New York, 2002 *
Camille Utterback
C++, Quicktime

While Utterback was an Interval Research fellow at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program, she co-invented a patent in video tracking technology. This technology is used in much of her work like Liquid Time. In this series a stored video sequence is splintered in time based on movement occurring in front of it. This movement is captured using an overhead video camera and processed by Utterback's tracking technology. As viewers move towards the projection screen they advance the video sequence forward in time, but only in the area of the screen directly in front of them. Prior versions of Liquid Time captured the cabling of the Brooklyn Bridge, the streets of Tokyo and Washington Square Park. In 2002, Utterback was named one of the 100 top innovators under thirty-five by MIT's Technology Review magazine.

Related Links:
CamilleUtterback.com

*LIQUID TIME IS NO LONGER ON VIEW IN THE FOX GALLERY.


Liquid Time Series: New York by Camille Utterback


Potent Objects
, 2003, Prototypes*
Camille Utterback and Adam Chapman
Custom electronics, programming, embedded software

Potent Objects playfully examines they way we ascribe emotion to inanimate technologies. The five prototype reactive objects shown here use motion sensors and video cameras to gauge a viewer's actions and then respond accordingly. Potent Objects parallels current research in 'affective computing,' in which the capability of sensing and conveying emotion is built into computing devices. The work suggests that, though our machines may seem to be becoming more like us, the truth could be just the opposite.


* Only two installations are currently on display in the Museum lobby: BALANCE and SHAKEN.


Potent Objects by Camille Utterback and Adam Chapman

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Mumblehop, 2002 *
Mumbleboy (Kinya Hanada) and Karl Ackermann Macromedia Flash, Custom Floor Pad

Created for this exhibition at the American Museum of the Moving Image, Mumblehop uses the form and interface of a simple videogame. By stepping on floor sensors similar to those used for dance-controlled videogames, players advance through various levels. Mumbleboy and Ackermann work in a distinct style characterized by child-like cut outs and solid blocks of color. They are principals of the online animation and art collaborative Milky Elephant.

Related Links:
Mumbleboy.com
MilkyElephant.com

* MUMBLEHOP IS NO LONGER ON VIEW IN THE FOX GALLERY.


Mumblehop by Mumbleboy and Karl Ackermann

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