Collaboration with Rebecca Baron (3 mins, b/w, sound, digital video)
soundtrack byErnst 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
- 11/2011, Migration Film Series, @ Proteus Gowanus, NY/US
- 12/2010, “Osterreichische Filmmuseum“, Wien/AT
- 11/2010, “UCLA Reimagining the Archive”, CA/US
- 11/2010, Digital (In)appropriations , CA/US
- 3/2010, Orphans 7, NY/US
- 11/2009, Dallas VideoFest, TX/US
- 11/2009, “Looking” atCabinet (with Maggie Nelson, Wayne Koestenbaum, Eileen Myles, and CA Conrad), NY/US
- 5/2009,PDX Film Festival, OR/US
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- 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
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- 4-5/2009,The Inappropriate Covers Show, RI/USA
- 4-5/2009The moving Index on ART OFFICE.org, www
- 10-12/2008, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, MA/US
