Action

Kristin Lucas

1997-98, 5 min, color, sound

Writes Lucas: "This video carries the tension of an audition or screen test. I am called onstage for a test drive around a virtual race course, a metaphor for the information superhighway. My intention for this video is to investigate the term 'action' as it applies to the contemporary lifestyle."

Ad Vice

Tony Cokes

1999, 6:36 min, color, sound

Ad Vice inhabits the realm of the music-video, only to use that form's language against itself in a subtle critique of the interactions of desire and commerce in a capitalist culture.

Framed by Curtains

Eder Santos

1999, 11:19 min, color, sound

Santos bases his self-described "video letter from Hong Kong" on the ambiguity of the word "frame." He refers to the picture or camera frame, as well as to the variable frame rate of digitally manipulated video, and, finally, to the act of framing as a process by which one names, describes, and...

In the Present

Phyllis Baldino 

1996, 12 min, color, sound

Originally part of a two-channel installation, this work presents a series of elusive narrative moments — culled from snippets of ordinary life and oddly extraordinary objects — that gain their meaning on the periphery of perception. Writes Baldino: "According to William James, the 'present' is...

Orka

Steina

1995, 16 min, color, sound

The images in Orka — which means "life force" — were shot by Steina in the wilds of her native Iceland in 1996. A "tracer" device records the micro-movements of nature over time, such as the paths of birds and waves. Steina's digitally altered images of nature have a stark and often startling...

Practisse

Cheryl Donegan

1994, 6:40 min, color, sound

To the accompaniment of the only extant recording of James Joyce reading from his own work, Donegan uses a clear cellophane hood and a pane of glass to create another of her "face paintings." The performance is intercut with the artist painting over her own image as it appears on a video monitor,...