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DAY FOR NITE |
2008 |
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Ant Farm's Curtis Schreier revives a tetrahedron for a new Inflatable,
constructed with students for the Intervene/Intercept Festival at the University
of California-Santa Cruz. My film documents the interiors and the tear
down. I am interested in the structure as an artifact of latency--desire
and time. Kurt Schwitters inside the Merzbau imagined "compressible
surfaces capable of dissolving into meshes, surfaces that fold like curtains,
expand or shrink".. Between Merzbau 1923, and "Inflatables Illustrated," Ant
Farm 1971 = 48 years. Now 38 years later: a latency interval reduced delay
of 25%. The timecode compresses at variable rates selected by the software.
The surfaces of the inflatable of the same radiant skin as the montage.
credits:
Christina McPhee camera, sound, montage, concept
Curtis Schreier, Ant Farm, Inflatables designer
Students of Elizabeth Stephens and Chip Lord, construction and projections Special
thanks to the Intervene/Interrupt Festival, UC Santa Cruz
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