Artifact #1, 2009

Artifact #1 is the first is a series about the perceptual systems employed in cinema. Here the interruptions between source frames have been filled in with light and color from neighboring frames. This procedure emphasizes the flow of sound and imagery we experience in the world. The abstractions revealed by this procedure happily distract us from the business of speeding cars, landscape and narrative.

Artifact #1 as a work that reveals the ghostly movement of people and cars that gently haunt the urban landscape,” emphasizing slowed, residual motion and spectral traces rather than conventional narrative or character.

The AAFF/Wisconsin Film Festival guide

The piece is a transformation of the Steve McQueen action classic Bullitt into a fever dream of light and color, foregrounding Goodwin’s interest in reprocessing mainstream cinema into abstracted, flickering fields and perceptual artifacts.

Block Museum, 2023