Lossless #3 collaboration with Rebecca Baron (10 mins, color, sound, digital video)
Soundtrack by Ernst Karel
Removing keyframes from a digital version of John Ford's The Searchers, Baron and Goodwin attack the film's temporal structuring to render a kinetic “painted desert” of the West. The dust kicked up by the movement in the film is pure pixel, unanchored from the photographic realism that used to constrain it. “Truth, 24 frames a second!” is rewritten according to the odd clock-times of digital processing, splaying movement and transition into the void of machine temporality. In the Lossless series, the artists themselves are the searchers, seeking to uncover differences between the bitstream and the celluloid strip. These differences might be blurry at our historical juncture, but Baron and Goodwin's work leads us closer to the over-coded heart of the digital video image, dissecting its anatomy to expose its entrancing mechanisms.
- notes from program by Braxton Soderman and Justin Katko
exhibitions
- 7-8/2010, Refresh at Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media, MA/US
- 3/2010, Orphans 7, NY/US
- 11/2009, "Looking" at Cabinet (with Maggie Nelson, Wayne Koestenbaum, Eileen Myles, and CA Conrad), NY/US
- 6/2009, SMART Cinema Space, Amsterdam/NL
- 4/2009, Athens Film Festival, OH/US
- 4-5/2009, The Inappropriate Covers Show, RI/USA
- 3/2009, Los Angeles Film Forum (with Adele Horne), CA/US
- 1/2009, CalArts (with Adele Horne), CA/US
- 10-12/2008, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, MA/US[x][x]
press image here
still from Lossless #3
still from Lossless #3
still from Lossless #3
still from Lossless #3
still from Lossless #3