open-PLAYER Installation: Valeska Soares “Flip Book”
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ARTLURKER: Christy Gast’s Mounted Horse Men via open-PLAYER
Very nice write up in ArtLurker about Christy Gast’s Mounted Horse project:
Her most recent project, Mounted Horse Men, can be expressed as part sculpture, part accessory, part documentary; a primitive tool that, once removed from its sheath and inserted into a USB drive, launches a national video study of men imposing order upon landscape.
Video-on-Stick – Nebojša Šeric Shoba : Liberte Tojours (Freedom Forever)
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(Low-resolution 30 sec excerpt)
Tobacco, alcohol and gun companies continue to distribute their products worldwide despite the harm that they cause to the health of their consumers and people still buy these goods despite the risks to their wellbeing that they inevitably expose themselves to. Many of the companies negotiate selling harmful products to the public by printing warning labels on the packaging. These warnings take on the role of educating the consumers and moralizing to them about their choices, thus becoming some kind of limbo between product and consumer. By doing so, companies are trying to create smokescreens for easier access to the market, and by re-branding their products they hope that their products will seem less harmful than they actually are. Of course, nothing is changed within the products themselves. Cigarette companies have begun?seemingly?aggressively cautioning their consumers by creating large, bold warning signs on each cigarette box. Although the messages that can be found on the boxes seem harsh, they are not disturbing enough to ward people off from smoking. Most smokers never notice the signage on the boxes. Why not use that space to convey a message people would notice?
Video on USB sticks, with open-PLAYER software. Edition of 20, $200 each.
160 Columbus Avenue – Collaboration With Smartspaces
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We are pleased to announce collaboration with smartspaces and the opening of the video installation in the window of 160 Columbus Avenue in New York. The installation features VoS artists Francisca Caporali and Mary Jeys, Christy Gast, Hadassa Goldvicht, Triny Prada and Ana Prvacki together with emerging artists Jessica Mein and Trine Nedreaas.
SMS messages sent to +1-646-492-9738 will appear in real-time in the window and on our Twitter page |
Video-on-Stick – Triny Prada: Delicatesse (Delicacy)
The paradox of nature : the strong and rough hand of a man who works the fields, the flowers in his hands shows us that strength and sweetness go together and gives a real vision of beauty as a true mirror of the world.About the artist: Painter and performance artist, Triny Prada likens the act of painting to video. Video provides the spatial and formal conditions for Triny to express the movement and sound that are present in her painting.
Video on USB sticks, with open-PLAYER software. Edition of 20, $280 each.
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Video-on-Stick – Ana Prvacki: Wild Goose-Step (and then she said)
Ananatural Productions, 2007
Edition 50 USB sticks with specially designed sticker
This video is the fruit of Prvacki’s reflections upon how to go about a show dealing with the artist/ curator relationship . Upon the suggestion of Singapore based curator and friend June Yap to put on “a pretty dress and chase your goose around the garden”, the artist followed these instructions thereby demonstrating trust and a certain level of surrender to the curator. The goose only bit her twice.
Credits for filming: Vijay Singh and Milenko Prvacki; for editing : Brian
Gothong Tan ; Sound track “Balkan Rumba” : Ognjen.
Artist’s website
and special appearance by Moby at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ptj27LZHUdo
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Video-on-Stick – Christy Gast: Mounted Horse Men
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Christy Gast‘s new video edition Mounted Horse Men contains forty short clips of men imposing order on the natural world. The order of the clips is reconfigured by open-PLAYER software each time the stick is inserted into a USB drive, revealing new meta-narratives. Edition of 20 USB stick embedded into a broken aspen branch. |
Video-on-Stick (VoS)
open-PLAYER is pleased to announce the VOS initiative, commissioning and distributing artists’ videos for small editions to be released on USB sticks utilizing our new compression and playback software. Each edition includes a video project and a USB enclosure designed or handmade by the artist. open-PLAYER playback software enables videos to play automatically upon insertion into a USB port. Editions will be signed and numbered, and include a certificate of authenticity.
open-PLAYER will also distribute an unlimited iPhone edition of videos in the series. Depending on the agreement with the artist, we will release iPhone edition either at the same time as the USB version or only when the main edition is sold out.
VoS may be purchased online; artists are compensated immediately on the sale of an edition.
UPDATE: ZDNet published a story yesterday, about a startup, Portomedia, who plans to start video rentals on USB video sticks.
Video Pick – Robert Adanto: The Rising Tide
The Rising Tide investigates China’s meteoric march toward the future through the work of some of its most talented emerging artists, whose work reflects the country’s rising influence as an economic, political and cultural force in the global arena.
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Video Pick – Megan McLarney: Forest
open-PLAYER is starting a collaboration with Megan McLarney on a number of video projects. Here’s an example of Megan’s video work:
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Video will be installed in a digital video frame with embedded open-PLAYER system. The artist will be able to upload remotely, over the Internet, new video material to the digital video frame.
Additionally, we will build an open-PLAYER multi-channel capable system for Mehan’s “Video Landscapes” multichannel panoramic videos…
