"By bringing images of daily life and ordinary people into public view, photography remakes vision and in so doing produces (or reproduces) new forms of (class) consciousness. "
* Paula Rabinowitz, They Must Be Represented
VIDEO ART
Quicktime movie: around 3:15
GABE is a documentary-style presentation of an eccentric street musician, who challenges the artist/photographer’s right to intrude upon those whose lives are public only by virtue of the fact that they live or work in the streets of a city like Los Angeles.
Quicktime movie: 4:06
WALKING ON BROADWAY is about selective perception. Which details catch our eye and arrest our fascination is completely determined by who we are. Set to a soundtrack synthesized with computer software, it’s also about the entrenchment of third world conditions in a post-industrial Los Angeles . . .
Quicktime movie: 3:15
TOLLING relies on the tension between sight and sound. The rhythm of the repetitive visual is juxtaposed by the gradually increasing dissonance of the audio.
RANDOM REFLECTIONS Quicktime movie: 15 minutes
20 disparate and tenuously related scenes.
Quicktime Movie: Seinfeld on Art
(3.62MB, 2min. 32 seconds)
Quicktime Movie: Woody Allen on Jackson Pollack
(1.17MB, 55 seconds)
