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DAY FOR NITE |
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Inflatable
Day for Nite |
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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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