Dec 14, 2013

LOST IN LINEAR VALLEY




With great pleasure I present Lost In Linear Valley. my first release for Undervolt and Co.

Lost in Linear Valley was intended to simply be a series of experiments using the combination of the Fairlight CVI and LZX Video synthesizer. However, while I set out to explore the fusion of thetools, I found myself falling into a new dimension where I no longer thought about the electronics in front of me but instead found a clear pathway to expression. I hope you enjoy it!

Also be sure to check out the rest of http://undervolt.co/. It includes incredible works from video artists from around the world and includes Cristopher Cichocki, Jimmy Joe Roche, Spectral Net (Birch Cooper, Brenna Murphy,Sabrina Ratté , Roger Tellier-Craig ), Johnny Woods, & Yoshi Sodeoka.

Many thanks to founder Yoshi Sodeoka and director Johnny Woods.

Nov 4, 2013

PLAN 9 CHANNEL 12 / THE WRONG New Digital Art Biennale





On November 1.2013, The Wrong New Digital Biennale launched.
It's Mission: To create, promote and push positive forward-thinking contemporary digital art to a wider audience worldwide through a biennial online event that gathers the best of the best, while embraces the young talents of today’s digital art scene.

I'm pleased to have work in the Plan 9 Channel 12 pavilion curated by Yoshi Sodeoka. Other artists included in Plan 9 are Peter Burr, Sabrina Ratte, Roger Tellier-Craig, Brandon Blommaert, Jimmy Joe Roche, Travess Smalley,Daron Murphy,Simon Stage, Kate Wilson, & Team Doyobi.

HAVE A WONDERFUL VISIT
Plan 9 Channel 12

i. Inside Out Face with Zuul Like Glow • Brandon Blommaert
ii. Fills • Peter Burr
iii. Destroy IV Part Deux • Golden Smell
iv. All Things Are Alive • Daron Murphy
v & vi. Climat I • Sabrina Ratté & Roger Tellier-Craig
vii. Siren Server • Jimmy Joe Roche
viii. We Live As 1 for David Rudnick • Travess Smalley
ix. SAW 85-92 .gifs • Simon Stage
x. Network Signal • Jennifer Juniper Stratford
xi. Paleotechnics of Geisgeza (Monolilliths 98718/98740)(Realised with support from the Wolds Institute for the Preservation of Extradimensional Diversity) • Team Doyobi
xii. Geometric Sunshine • Kate Wilson

"Perhaps, on your way home, someone will pass you in the dark, and you will never know it... for they will be from outer space."
Curated by Yoshihide Sodeoka for The Wrong - New Digital Art Biennale 2013 http://plan9channel12.com
MORE WORK FROM ARTISTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD http://thewrong.org/

Oct 18, 2013

Greenaway Peter | 4 American Composers - (IV) Robert Ashley 1983



Directed by Peter Greenaway Robert Ashley John Cage Philip Glass Peter Gordon .... Himself (segment "Ashley") Jack Kripl .... Intereviewee Jill Kroesen .... (segment "Ashley") Meredith Monk Kurt Munkacsi .... Interviewee Dora Ohrenstein .... Interviewee Michael Riesman .... Interviewee 'Blue' Gene Tyranny .... The World's Greatest Piano Player (segment "Ashley") David Van Tieghem .... The Captain of the Football Team (segment Ashley) Runtime: 220 min Country: UK Language: English Color: Color

Oct 11, 2013

ZBIGNIEW RYBCZYNSKI



Part 2


Part 3


Zbigniew Rybczyński is a Polish filmmaker and multimedia artist who has been making groundbreaking visionary work since the early 1970s.

He has taught cinematography and digital cinematography, and has worked as a researcher of blue and greenscreen compositing technology at Ultimatte Corporation. He is renowned for his innovative audiovisual techniques and for his pioneering experimentation in the field of new image technology.

In March 2009 Rybczyński returned to Poland, taking up residence in Wrocław, where he has set up the Center for Audiovisual Technologies (CeTA) at the site of the city's historic Feature Film Studio. The center, which officially opened in January 2013, includes a state-of-the-art studio designed by Rybczyński for the production of multi-layer film images, and an institute for research into images and visual technologies.

His visionary work has also made a major contribution to experimentation in popular culture making music videos for Grandmaster Flash, Art of Noise, Blancmange, Missing Persons, Pet Shop Boys, & Yoko Ono, to name a few.

For more on Zbigniew visit his website: http://www.zbigvision.com/

Sep 29, 2013

THE COCONUTS- Did You Have To Love Me



The Coconuts, the better half of Kid Creole, know video artists do it better.

Sep 11, 2013

INTERVIEW WITH BRIAN ENO ON MEDIA


Firehose mentality is still happening today.
Interview with Brian Eno on media and his music.

Edited by Denise Gallant for Video West, San Francisco KQED show, 1980s.

Interview by Video West.

Video Synthesis effects by the Synopsis Video Synthesizer.

Sep 8, 2013

ART CLOKEY'S MANDALA


Mandala is 1977 an experimental film, made by Art Clokey. While an episode of Gumby can easily capture your heart, in this film we see the depths of his character manifest through the medium he knew best, clay.

Art Clokey on the creation of Mandala:

“Well, we shot that in our basement in Topanga. We had an 1,100 square foot basement in an A-frame on a hillside. It was perfect for our needs. My whole family worked on it, my daughter and Gloria’s daughter. That was our second marriage for both of us. She had a daughter and I had a daughter. They were both artistic, and my son and Gloria worked with the camera. So it was a family effort all in clay.”Mandala was to communicate “the idea of evolving our consciousness from primordial forms to human form, and then beyond the human to the spiritual and eternal. The theme was the evolution of consciousness: we begin in the mud and we just go out and up.

Afterwards, watch GUMBOT. All love to the memory of Art Clokey

Sep 7, 2013

JACK PALANCE, BELIEVE IT OR NOT




Jack Palance, the Great on Ripley's Believe It or Not 1983
Video Artists, take note somewhere around 2:36

Aug 28, 2013

Conserving and Exhibiting the Works of Nam June Paik



Features the conservation and understanding of the analog mechanics of Nam June Paik's RANDOM ACCESS, TV CROWN, & TV GARDEN.




This video features VIDEO FLAG Z and it's preservation.

Aug 27, 2013

FOR GHOSTING 2



Here is a new video I made for Ghosting 2, a screening
of video art and experimental animation in Los Angeles.
http://ghosting.tv

Aug 19, 2013

GHOSTING



Come see the work of a few artists who keep the practice of analog video art alive and a part of the future.

Ghosting Volume #2
Los Angeles CA
August 24th
8:00pm

with work by
Sabrina Ratté
Yoshi Sodeoka
Sam Newell
Jennifer Juniper Stratford


Visit the site: http://ghosting.tv

Aug 3, 2013

ON VIDEO



On Video is a very interesting and inspiring television documentary mini-series about video art in Britain and Europe in the 1980's. It delves deeply into trying to define video art, interpreting media with broadcast tools, and the discovery that playback machines were play-with machines!

 It also gives great insight into British television politics and the purpose of video art through interviews with video artists with varied disciplines. The bonus is a peek into the studios of video artists in the and their equipment. Watch it, learn, and drool.

Features interviews and full works of :
Sean Cubitt (Society of Education in Film & TV)
David Hall
George Barber
Andy Lipman
Marty St James
Anne Wilson
Bob Lawrie
John Scarlett-Davis
The Duvet Brothers
Jeremy Welsh
Jaap Drupsteen
Graham Young
Robert Cahen
Zoe Redman
Kate Elwes
Claus Blume
George Snow
Frits Maats
Andre Colinet



EPISODE 2

EPISODE 3

EPISODE 4 - EUROPEAN VIDEO ART  "TV OR NOT TV"

EPISODE 5 - EUROPEAN VIDEO ART PART  2






Jun 29, 2013

JOAN JONAS Vertical Roll



Vertical Roll

1972, 19:38 min, b&w, sound
Vertical Roll is a seminal work. In a startling collusion of form and content, Jonas constructs a theater of female identity by deconstructing representations of the female body and the technology of video. Using an interrupted electronic signal — or "vertical roll" — as a dynamic formal device, she dislocates space, re-framing and fracturing the image. The relentless vertical roll, which repeats throughout the tape, disrupts the image by exposing the medium's materiality. Using her body as performance object and video as a theatrical construct, Jonas unveils a disjunctive self-portrait. As she performs in front of the camera — masked, wearing a feathered headdress, or costumed as a belly-dancer — her feet, torso, arms and legs appear as disembodied fragments. Subjected to the violence of the vertical roll and the scrutiny of the video mirror, these disjointed images of the body — including a photographic representation of a female nude — are even further abstracted and mediated. The incessantly jumping picture frame, with its repeating horizontal black bar, both confronts and distances the viewer, creating a tension between subjectivity and objectivity. The tape's staccato, insistent visual rhythm is heightened by the regular, sharp crack of a spoon hitting a surface, which resounds as if Jonas were smacking the video equipment itself. In the tape's final moments, Jonas confronts the viewer face-to-face in front of the aggressively rolling video screen, adding yet another spatial and metaphorical layer of fragmentation and self-reflection to this theatrical hall of mirrors.
via Electronic Arts Intermix

Jun 23, 2013

POLAROID IN VIDEO

Trans-X - Message On The Radio Official Video

Jun 20, 2013

ChronOproject




Video by Jennifer Juniper Stratford
Music by AFM Magician / AFM Musician
afm-musician.bandcamp.com/album/eternity

Please expand video to full screen !

Jun 4, 2013

LACKING RISK


Please expand video to full screen !

NEW MUSIC VIDEO!!!
RAINBOW ARABIA Lacking Risk
Directed by Jennifer Juniper Stratford
DP Tye Whipple
Costume Designer David Mason
Production Assistant Roni Levi
A Telefantasy Studios Production

Interview regarding the video: http://www.nowness.com/day/2013/6/1/3071

May 20, 2013

Daphne Oram Documentary - Wee Have Also Sound-Houses





Here is a lovely piece on Daphne Oram, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop's co-founder.

As a child in the 1930s, Oram dreamed of a way to turn drawn shapes into sound, and she dedicated her life to realising that goal. Her Oramics machine anticipated the synthesiser by more than a decade, and with it she produced a number of internationally-performed works for the cinema, concert hall and theatre. Daphne Oram was among the very first composers of electronic music in Britain.

Apr 6, 2013

MoMA POP RALLY / AN INTERACTIVE VIDEO EVENT


The Museum of Modern Art New York (MoMA) asked me to kick off Pop Rally in connection with the exhibit Inventing Abstraction. Pop Rally is an interactive video event that focuses on young contemporary and emerging artists using video and will screen at the museum Sunday April 7, 2013. More info here: www.moma.org

Mar 21, 2013

TYPICAL MAN ON BEACH


NEW VIDEO!!!
TYPICAL MAN ON BEACH
MUSIC BY SORCERER
VIDEO BY JENNIFER JUNIPER STRATFORD

Feb 4, 2013

FIORUCCI


"Be appropriate to the situation because the situation is mad!"