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Curt, there you go again.
Curt, there you go again.
transformer fire (2008) - Paul Slocum
It would be nice to hear from John Michael about why he picked this piece.
Credit should certainly go to all the nameless videographers capturing phone poles wherever they may burst into flames.
Credit should certainly go to all the nameless videographers capturing phone poles wherever they may burst into flames.
transformer fire (2008) - Paul Slocum
Forgot to mention the artMovingProjects showing of the piece also appeared on the Rhizome calendar a while back.
transformer fire (2008) - Paul Slocum
Guess not. Anyway, Aron Namenwirth, artMovingProjects co-owner, singled out this piece from the mass of spiritsurfers posts and went to special trouble, working with Slocum, to find a way to present it forcefully in a gallery setting. I saw it and it was interesting in that: (i) the monitor was rotated to portrait position to accommodate the five video clips in a vertical row (ii) white space surrounded the group of adjacent clips giving them a more iconic reading, and (iii) the piece was transformed to a series of YouTubes with ordinary, interactive controls into a rather elegant video collage that saved you having to grope for a mouse.
My understanding is the piece was sold to a private collector.
After Namenwirth's version of the piece opened in December 2008 ( http://artmovingprojects.blogspot.com/2008/11/paul-slocum-transformer-fire.html ) Marcin Ramocki included a link to Transformer Fire in his Best of the Web entry for Art Fag City ( http://www.artfagcity.com/2009/01/08/best-of-the-web-contributors-edition-part-six-of-six/ )
It was also featured on ArtCal, I believe.
In any case, this piece has a history predating its appearance on Rhizome with no explanation or back story about 10 days after Slocum's show closed at artMovingProjects. This comment is an attempt to give some of that background.
My understanding is the piece was sold to a private collector.
After Namenwirth's version of the piece opened in December 2008 ( http://artmovingprojects.blogspot.com/2008/11/paul-slocum-transformer-fire.html ) Marcin Ramocki included a link to Transformer Fire in his Best of the Web entry for Art Fag City ( http://www.artfagcity.com/2009/01/08/best-of-the-web-contributors-edition-part-six-of-six/ )
It was also featured on ArtCal, I believe.
In any case, this piece has a history predating its appearance on Rhizome with no explanation or back story about 10 days after Slocum's show closed at artMovingProjects. This comment is an attempt to give some of that background.