Film Fridays at the Varsity starts Sept. 10

The film fridays at the varsity series begins in a couple of weeks. They are looking for volunteers to help with the screenings. contact Derron or Derek to help out!
Derek Smith email is derek at siu dot edu> and Deron Williams' email is dnw5001 at gmail dot com

political public art posing as muscial

http://www.youtube.com/user/DerekWesleySmith

Department of Desire Fulfillment

On thursday last the Department of Desire Fulfillment surveyed Carbondale's desires, adding to our own list:
Bicycle church, Free bicycles, bike barn, city farm, grafitti wall, free speech wall, tool library, community center, community garden, drive in, pool, safe biking.



Alex at WDBX let us talk about the DDF on his radio show.

cut ups (video by Burroughs?)

DVblog » Burroughs, Balch & Gysin - The Cut-Ups

Fantastic Politics: and other street projects

Fantastic Politics: Art as Political Campaign
Ricardo Miranda Zuniga
The FM Ferry Experiment
Carrie Dashow Red Light Relay
Soap Opera
Krzysztof Wodiczko

Using Google
BUSCANDO AL SR. GOODBAR | TRANSMEDIALE

PUblic projections: http://www.rhizomes.net/issue17/wright/index.html

Spectres of liberty

Spectres of Liberty. Resurrection of a church in Troy with historic importance for abolitionism.

spectres of liberty

http://vimeo.com/1145725

Wild Distortions of Space and Time

I'm now experimenting with the formal conventions of super 8mm film and its literal and figurative relationships with space and time. The flux of space and time through an individual's perception is particularly interesting to me, as is the 'self-ness' and physicality of celluloid to embody these fluctuations. Both the individual and the film stock bring idiosyncrasies to bear on perception that limit and define how they see (like, maybe, personal history is roughly equivalent to a film's ISO speed; or something like that; or, maybe, it's a stretch). To the end of building an idiosyncratic way for my super 8 to 'see', I've been shooting still frames with:

a: telephoto focal length
b: infinity focus distance
c: continuous f/stop of 4

Meaning, when projected, that each frame will be variously over or under exposed depending on the available light, and in or out of focus depending on the subjective distance of the camera to or from the subject. However, since each frame lasts for 1/18 of a second these fluctuations will hopefully blend into each other and transform themselves into some kind of other whole.

So, anyway, here are three works I've referenced among others, though I've been struggling to remember my lit theory days for help with some criticism:

http://www.ubu.com/film/sharits_sears.html

http://www.ubu.com/film/menken_go.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hSYZPXZRL8

photo by Lauren Selmon Roberts

Everyone is lined up to participate in Josh Gumiela's piece "AutoComplete" at the siuIU/MCMA MFA performance at the Big Muddy Film Festival.

Feb 21, 2010