Technology is frequently thought of as the handmaiden of progress, where ever increasing technological development signals further human growth, the shrinking of geographical distances, the promotion of human rights, the accessibility of almost infinite amounts of information, and the growth of new avenues for creativity. In sum, technology is good.
However, the influence of technology in our everyday lives has become so commonplace, so normal, that many aren’t even aware of it, or of the possible dangers of technological media intruding into and taking over our everyday lives. Consumer technology combined with the dream of efficient globalized markets makes technology not only an indispensable necessity, but also an unstoppable beast.
Whether chained to technology, or freed by technology, the videos and films in this program reflect our immersion in the technological world. Some question development; some reveal confusion; some poeticize technological media; others reflect pre-technological myths, but all in some way or other, disclose the experience of living inside the prison house that technology has become.
Please Insert the DV tape
by Yin-Ju Chen
1 minute, video, 2003
Video technology’s language of errors
New York Premiere
Predictions
by Katherin McInnis
1 minute, video, 2003
A very close look at the Musée Mécanique of San Francisco
New York Premiere
False Friends
by Sylvia Schedelbauer
5 minutes, video, 2007
An anxious interplay of memory and projection
New York Premiere
San Quentin, CA 94964
by Katherin McInnis
7 minutes, video, 2007
the boundaries between public, state, and private space
New York Premiere
Transactions
by Yin-Ju Chen
8 minutes, video, 2008
Credit card expenses and calling home.
New York Premiere
Three Decades of Static
by Yin-Ju Chen
4 minutes, video, 2006
In a unique architectural structure, the artist imagines three decades of herself.
New York Premiere
Landscapes in Alphabetical Order
by Katherin McInnis
1 minute, video, 2003
Index stills from the Internet archive with the keyword “archive”
New York Premiere
technology by timecode
by Katherin McInnis
1 minute, video, 2004
New York Premiere
destruction by date
by Katherin McInnis
1 minute, video, 2004
New York Premiere
Push Button
by Gibbs Chapman
16 minutes, 16mm film, 2004
The quest for a current immediacy or an ease of operation has created a culture of lethargy and ignorance of new proportion.
FIRST HALF 45 minutes
INTERMISSION
Suprematist Kapital
by Yin-Ju Chen and James T. Hong
5 minutes, video, 2006
A symbolic history of the West.
New York Premiere
A Portrait of Sino-American Friendship
by James T. Hong
4 minutes, video, 2008
New York Premiere
The Coldest War Part 1
by James T. Hong
7 minutes, video, 2006
A presentation of some of China’s new policies.
Mockup on Mu (Chapter 8 excerpt)
by Craig Baldwin
8 minutes, video, 2008
A short history of rocketry and the weaponization of space
New York Premiere
This Shall Be A Sign
by James T. Hong
32 minutes, video, 2008
Interpretation, conflict, sovereignty, and the power of technology
New York Premiere
SECOND HALF 56 minutes
