dima-art-docs
About this original series
Streams of artwok documentation.Author: Dmitry (Dima) Strakovskywebsite: www.shiftingplanes.org
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# Episodes
17 episodes -
Rating
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Episodes of dima-art-docs
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273 seconds
John Cage's “4minutes 33 seconds” is an iconic piece of 20th century avant-garde music. I was amazed to find quite a variety of performances of the work on YouTube: many complementary, many created as complete spoofs. Needless to say, translation to video is somewhat problematic but perhaps, speaks to larger cultural trends. I want to take the slippages in interpretation, visual puns (both questionable and playful), combative rhetoric in the comment stream, video glitches and variety of other ...
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Release date
Jun 21, 2010
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Runtime
05:40
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the wheel (short documentation version)
“the wheel” is composed of video footage shot from a rotating Ferris wheel in Toyama Prefecture, Japan. It documents one complete rotation. The particular version presented here is edited down to 5 minutes to facilitate easier view of the project. The full version is 15 minutes long (one take, no editing or overdubs).
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Release date
Oct 12, 2009
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Runtime
04:59
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requiem?requiem
MySpace is notorious for its users' runaway designs. I want to blame everything that is wrong with my world on the over-sexualized, over-saturated, syrupy, preachy, cheesy, vulgar, loud, stupid clutter that I am looking at! Yet, I can not dismiss the sheer energy of what is in front of me. I am in awe of the vitality of the whole enterprise, amazed my its richness of possibilities! "requiem?requiem" is a meditation on this visual space. It is generated from browser window captures from a varie...
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Release date
Mar 12, 2009
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Runtime
03:15
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zero
“zero” is based on footage appropriated from a WWII pilot training film. The film was created by US Airforce to help pilots to identify friendly P-40 from the enemy Zero planes. This footage is edited in such a way, as to highlight the visual and complicate ideological nature of the oppositional states present in the source film.
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Release date
Sep 3, 2008
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Runtime
04:22
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...as if a forest (documentation 4min 18sec)
Performance/installation, 2008The work is "packaged" in a 10 step set of nonsensical directions generated by a fictional company. The directions explain how to create a sound experience of a forest. I begin the work with a performance in front of an audience on the first day of the show (approximately 15 min.) I read each step and perform the sounds associated with it. The vocals are recorded using a custom software sampler designed for simultaneous multi-channel playback. All the samples are ...
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Release date
Jan 31, 2008
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Runtime
04:19
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...as if a forest (documentation 17min 11sec)
PerformanceVariety of “forest” sounds are performed using only my mouth following directions provided by a fictional company. They are looped and mixed via custom-designed software. The method of delivery references human language. The sound references a site. Neither element however, creates a stable definition. The mouth produces something akin to a nature recording instead of words and the audience can never escape the fact that the “forest” reference is created right in front of them. It i...
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Release date
Jan 29, 2008
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Runtime
17:12
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Top 10 Asian Brands (video)
This performance piece is an ironic take on the common perceptions of "East" and "West". The artist chants top 10 asian brands (as listed by www.brandingasia.com.) The very idea of simple opposition of cultural "East" and "West" (often framed as higher spirituality vs. material prosperity) is called into question. Chanting, interspersed with occasional "a la Tuva" throat singing, is used to evoke an idea of "Eastern" spirituality, while the content, quite materialistic and "Western" undermines...
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Release date
Dec 26, 2007
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Runtime
07:29
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"36 Views"
Katsushika Hokusai's series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji" is very much a part of the global art cannon. The fact that there are actually 46 prints in the series is often forgotten in our brand conscious world. "36 views" is a piece of costom software that picks a random work from a 6 by 6 matrix on the screen and swaps it out with one of the 10 "invisible" works. This process is looped. It represents an attempt to fit all 46 pieces into the 36 places allowed for them in the art world.
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Release date
Oct 9, 2007
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Runtime
00:57
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