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Double, 2000
Looping animated video
TRT: about 60 seconds.
Double was presented as
a part of Refesh: The Art of the
Screen Saver. The exhibit was created by James Buckhouse, Greg
Niemeyer and Merrill Falkenberg. The exhibit traveled to the Iris
&
B.Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University,
www.ArtMuseum.net (2000-2003), Viper Media Festival, Basel Switzerland,
and the Institute of Contemporary Art in London.
About Double:
Screen savers are often loops that constantly change while the overall
structure remains the same. "Double" begins with this idea by
displaying an animated waterfall that constantly changes, but on the
whole, stays the same. After a while, the waterfall shifts to reveal
additional layers of imagery.
Muscle cars, exotic fish, video games, football players, computer
workers, and distant landscapes occupy these layers. The images create
an orrery of desire, teamwork, exclusion and co-operation that
functions as an animated model of how we might imagine digital
technology to operate culturally and technically.
Read the review in the
New York Times here.
