December 15 and 16, 2010 Programme: How Little We Know of Our Neighbours (2005) Lossless #2 (2008) Lossless #3 (2008) Lossless #4 (2008) Lossless #5 (2008) okay bye-bye (1998) Poverty Housing. Americus, Georgia (2008) Rebecca Baron 1 Rebecca Baron 2 Serios [Work in Progress] (2010) The Idea of North (1995) With a body of work [...]
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Lossless at The Transformation Show
Curated by Ben Russell 7:00pm on Tuesday the 5th of October at Gallery 400, 400 S Peoria, Chicago, IL FREE Like so many smaller robots united to form a larger and somewhat more impressive whole, this program of films and videos culled from the last four decades of mediamaking is a proposition for transformation on [...]
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Orphans7: Lossless, Nos. 1-5 (2009)
This investigation has revealed two things to us: digital media represent the world very differently than film or video the artifacts are often beautiful in themselves So write Rebecca Baron and Douglas Goodwin, makers of the Lossless series. (See “Why mpeg?”). “Lossless” (as opposed to “lossy”) data compression is a digital process by which computer [...]
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I’m a Filmforum guest!
Thanks, friends, for coming out to the screening. It was a blast!
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Lossless at LA Filmforum
Do You See What I See? New Works from Adele Horne, Rebecca Baron and Doug Goodwin Egyptian Theater in Hollywood , Sunday March 15, 2009, 7:00 pm Filmforum is delighted to welcome back some of our good friends with new films. We last hosted Adele Horne with her documentary The Tailenders, which went on to win an Independent [...]
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time compression series 4
highways stripes at 65mph seem to know something about economic hard times
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time compression series 3
it may appear to be a normal beach snap but look again. it’s actually 722 vertical stripes of video lined up horizontally along the x-axis. there is about 24 seconds of time captured here.
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time compression series 2
hollyhigh_fountain-iphone 21 seconds in front of the fountain. the fountain in the mall at hollywood and highland is popular with tourists. here the z dimension (time) is swapped with x (width). starting with the leftmost vertical slice we scan across the x dimension to produce a smooth sequence of frames.
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time compression series
on the street in front of the reproduction of DW Griffith’s recreation of Babylon.