Lossless #5 collaboration with Rebecca Baron (3 mins, b/w, sound, digital video)
soundtrack by Ernst Karel
In Baron and Goodwin's Lossless series the “materiality” of the digital becomes the source-code for experimental execution. The artists' renditions of appropriated films are certainly not “lossless” (i.e. a copy of the original in which nothing is lost), but rather gainful: through various techniques of digital disruption – compression, file-sharing, the removal of essential digital information – the artists reveal the gain of a “new” media, full of material forms ripe for aesthetic sleuthing. In "Lossless #5," a water ballet crafted by the famed Busby Berkeley is compressed into an organic mitosis, within which we detect the spirit of a “buggy” Brakhage ghosting about the integrated circuit.
- notes from program by Braxton Soderman and Justin Katko
exhibitions
- 3/2010, Orphans 7, NY/US
- 11/2009, Dallas VideoFest, TX/US
- 11/2009, "Looking" at Cabinet (with Maggie Nelson, Wayne Koestenbaum, Eileen Myles, and CA Conrad), NY/US
- 5/2009, PDX Film Festival, OR/US [x]
- 5/2009, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen,:Screening Video Data Bank Oberhausen/DE
- 4/2009, Athens Film Festival, OH/US
- 4/2009, Courtisane festival: Past Imperfect, An evening on ... Memory, Gent/BE [x]
- 4-5/2009, The Inappropriate Covers Show, RI/USA
- 4-5/2009 The moving Index on ART OFFICE.org, www
- 10-12/2008, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, MA/US [x][x]
press image here
still from Lossless #5