DIGITAL VIDEO - VERSION 1.0

Aaron Hull's Clock'd presents a dreamlike minimal milieu of stark, repetitious imagery and sound. An abstracted interpretation of human experience moving through time and space, its conclusions are largely left to the interpretation of the viewer.

In contract, cosmic locksmith's sinking ship is a combination of gif animations and digital video contributed by the artist Jimi Tenor for a video project originally featured on his website which is anything but minimal. Behavior and evolution emerge as key themes as the video inundates the viewer with manipulated images of space, video games, and figures in motion along with a wealth of other visual material.

INTERACTIVE PRESENTATIONS - VERSION 1.0

Judson's Otefuri presents a game-like interpretation of a found object. The application's cartoon-like interface and Ouija board-esque manipulations confront the participant with contrasting themes: is this a game, or a search for a Higher Power?

Finally, babel's Turnbaby manipulates film footage originally produced by Thomas Edison into a Flash application. Beginning as a reinterpretation of a zoetrope, Turnbaby goes on to contrast the differences between 19th Century dance and modern artistic human movement.

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The source material presented by the palimpsest project is left to future artists to add to as they see fit. Future versions of the exhibition will reflect changes in the digital aesthetic as well as serving as a record of a single period in the history of online art.

John Kannenberg
Stasis_Space Curator
Chicago, September 2002

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