Infinite Smile (view in Quicktime here), by the artist duo MTAA (M.River & T.Whid Art Associates), made its gallery debut last night in an elegantly appointed group show at Bryce Wolkowitz. A video of the artists holding smiles for a stretch of several agonizing minutes is sped up, then run forwards and backwards to make a continuous loop. The gallery projection is large and seamless and the viewer is transfixed helplessly before this techno-tableau of painful good intentions. The time-alterations give the subjects a twitchy, amphetamine-addled look: they might to be holding poses for some future dystopian hologram ID gone all glitchy due to budget cuts in the security ministry.
I just sent this to MTAA and Art Fag City:
www.charlesgoldmanwork.com/works/?m=view&id=60
Oops. Hit post too soon. I should have mentioned that this video of Charles Goldman smiling for an hour is from 1995.
Great, thanks. Charles looks like an insurance salesman in that still!
Paddy mentioned a Vanessa Beecroftoid performance at White Columns of a bunch of people smiling, as well.
One MTAA wrinkle on this theme is the technoid gloss of what high speed and backwards-running video does to the smile process.
Portraiture is a play of symmetry and the time factor adds a different kind of symmetry: are the muscle movements necessary to lift the mouth coming or going?
video looping back and forth is wonderful.. in a quicktime HTML embed tag, you can write in "loop=palindrome", and your movie will loop back and forth endlessly (...and that's my html tip of the day!)
something a teacher of mine did:
www.christian-moeller.com/display.php?project_id=36&pointer=0
Damn, more smiles. Perhap we need to add this to the list with mouse gesture drawings.
M. River's smile would not do well on the emotional recognition system.
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Infinite Smile (view in Quicktime here), by the artist duo MTAA (M.River & T.Whid Art Associates), made its gallery debut last night in an elegantly appointed group show at Bryce Wolkowitz. A video of the artists holding smiles for a stretch of several agonizing minutes is sped up, then run forwards and backwards to make a continuous loop. The gallery projection is large and seamless and the viewer is transfixed helplessly before this techno-tableau of painful good intentions. The time-alterations give the subjects a twitchy, amphetamine-addled look: they might to be holding poses for some future dystopian hologram ID gone all glitchy due to budget cuts in the security ministry.
- tom moody 1-19-2007 7:23 pm
I just sent this to MTAA and Art Fag City:
www.charlesgoldmanwork.com/works/?m=view&id=60
- bloggy.com (guest) 1-19-2007 8:56 pm
Oops. Hit post too soon. I should have mentioned that this video of Charles Goldman smiling for an hour is from 1995.
- bloggy.com (guest) 1-19-2007 8:57 pm
Great, thanks. Charles looks like an insurance salesman in that still!
Paddy mentioned a Vanessa Beecroftoid performance at White Columns of a bunch of people smiling, as well.
One MTAA wrinkle on this theme is the technoid gloss of what high speed and backwards-running video does to the smile process.
Portraiture is a play of symmetry and the time factor adds a different kind of symmetry: are the muscle movements necessary to lift the mouth coming or going?
- tom moody 1-19-2007 9:06 pm
video looping back and forth is wonderful.. in a quicktime HTML embed tag, you can write in "loop=palindrome", and your movie will loop back and forth endlessly (...and that's my html tip of the day!)
something a teacher of mine did:
www.christian-moeller.com/display.php?project_id=36&pointer=0
- guthrie (guest) 1-19-2007 10:16 pm
Damn, more smiles. Perhap we need to add this to the list with mouse gesture drawings.
M. River's smile would not do well on the emotional recognition system.
- tom moody 1-19-2007 10:30 pm