“The video surfs on the interface between sense/nonsense. The point of departure is the space between an unsynchronized signal. From here it produces itself through the mirror effect of self-reflection. The ‘Deadline’ takes its last breath, which is just enough for the transit of a floating significant. Through their conscious use, the ‘void’ of such phenomena as drop-outs and misguided chromonance signals suddenly turns into an image ‘texture’ that constitutes meaning. Out of the hiss of false information – …
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From the trace repoduced by a single drop out is created a series of digital landscapes that provide the backgrounds for the flight of the Zenonian arrow towards void. The absence of information in a drop-out creates the space which defines a coincidental arrow on collision course with the proverbial flying equation… asymptote signifying nothing. The central, interfaces the french word vide with the english void… these meet in the real world of the river Vidus as it flows through Void the town. …
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Performance: Tina Keane, Michael O’Pray profiles Tina Keane’s career so far for Performance Magazine, 1988 pdf here. …
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‘Sixteen domestic TV receivers are arranged in a circle; each facing away from the viewer into the enclosed space; each playing a different TV channel from the next.. A videotape playing on a revolving monitor is glimpsed at the centre through small gaps.. each so fine that vision is restricted.. suggesting an attempt to assemble information coherently as the viewer moves from one to the next. In doing so, the continuum is broken. Expectations of narrative progression are both implied and rejected.. …
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David HALL: SITUATIONS ENVISAGED. Richard Saltoun Gallery,
17 July—14 August 2015 London
David Hall’s installation presents a tower of monitors facing the wall; their TV broadcasts appear eclipsed and their original message transformed into an aura of coloured light and musical score (composed by David Cunningham). One monitor, in the centre, shows a 30-line image like those used in the historical transmissions of John Logie Baird in the 1920s. The piece comments on the iconic and magical nature of electricity and communication technologies. …
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Performance: Tina Keane, Michael O’Pray profiles Tina Keane’s career so far for Performance Magazine, 1988.pdf here.
VIDEOaktiv magazine: Magazin.Video-Galerie, 1987 pdf here. …
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The idea of using the ‘Vanitas’ theme in Krikorian’s work came originally from a painting which she saw in the Ashmolean museum in Oxford. The title of the 17th century painting is Allegory of Justice and Vanitas; in which a woman is seated holding a mirror, which is facing the spectator. A number of still life objects including a skull and a candlestick denoting the transience of life are reflected in the mirror. In other Vanitas paintings, …
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‘Delineations involved the use of two tape loops, one audio the other video, stretched around the circumference of two identical and adjacent rooms. On the audio tape I made a recording of my journey around the space at the tape speed of 7 1/2 inches per second, pointing out items of interest and indicating my position in the room. On the videotape I recorded a similar journey around the other space at the tape speed of 15 inches per second. …
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