Produced for ICPL in conjunction with May’s Weber Days, this documentary looks at the making of the statue on Iowa and Linn.

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Title
[Excerpts from It’s evening in America] [videorecording] / Carole Ann Klonarides. Conversations / Vito Acconci.
Published
[Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Libraries, 2004]
Description
1 videodisc (30, 28 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + insert.
Subject
Acconci, Vito, 1940- — Interviews.
Subject
Experimental videos.
Conceptual art.
Police brutality — New York (State) — New York
Artists — United States — Interviews.
Series
( Intervideo : intermedia and its relationship to video ; program 5)
Series
Intervideo ; program 5.
Authors, etc.
Klonarides, Carole Ann.
Owen, Michael.
Cheang, Shu Lea.
Garrin, Paul.
Davidovich, Jaime, 1936-
Poser, Steven.
Acconci, Vito, 1940-
Butler, Matthew Taylor.
Other titles
Conversations.
Syst.details Note
DVD video.
General Note
Title from container.
Originally produced in 1988 and 1987 respectively by Jaime Davidovich for the Artists’ Television Network series on Soho (New York) public access TV. DVD produced by Matthew Butler in conjunction with the exhibition “The Modernist Debate” at Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, Spain.
Contents
Cascade (vertical landscapes) / MICA-TV in association with Channel 4 ; produced and directed by Carole Ann Klonarides, Michael Owen in collaboration with Dike Blair, Dan Graham ; music, Christian Marclay ; editor, Peter Eggers (ca. 7 min.) — Color schemes : America’s washload in 4 cycles / produced & directed by Shu Lea Cheang ; directors of photography, Klaus Hoch-Guinn, David Shulman, 1989 (ca. 11 min.) — Free society / video, Paul Garrin ; music, Elliott Sharp, 1988 (ca. 10 min.) — Mike / Michael Smith (ca. 3 min.).
Summary
“MICA-TV’s Cascade (vertical landscapes) is an example of a very different kind of video work, with constantly panning and shifting camera work creating a dialogue between architecture and landscape. Michael Smith’s humorous piece uses the camera work and production values of commercial television to very different ends. Paul Garrin’s video both documents an incident of police brutality in New York and further explores political activism and protest through the use of video”–Insert.
In Conversations Vito Acconci, with Steven Poser, delivers an interesting talk, almost a performance, about his work.
System Number
003067656
Format
visual material
Location
INFORMATION ARCADE Collection Video record 16405 DVD

The soundscape is a digital collage which is constructed of layers of archival machine sounds and workers’ voices, submerging and emerging from the noise. The performers have developed a palette of choreographed movements that are either synchronized (based upon actual workers’ repetitive task motions) or improvisational (the opposite of regimented work). Machines are omnipresent in this performance as desired objects, as sounds, as systems both repressive and expressive.

Words are deployed in three ways: 1) A voice-over narrative is a composite of many women’s stories of the workplace; 2) Projected inscriptions reclaim the site with taxonomies of job names, car names. etc; 3 ) Archival voices are subsumed into the digital soundscape—they are ghosts in the machine.

The videos projected on the site are either archival film footage of workers (like X-rays into the past of the buildings) or re-creations of actions remembered by former workers. Although we focused upon the work experiences of women, we also included men in outreach.

The first 100 words: “Electricity and death, intimacy, of an imaginative resource guessing something in the center. We have a means for inanimate objects to enter the polarity and the need for connection of thought and the dreamy Savannas, through its power, it moves; a tea-party for emergence; wherever there still insisting on the power and other forms the certainty of the spiritual wave sends out similar thoughts which we engage in a quest myth are a vibration of an intimacy, the materialization of his linear vectors or stable expression of vision ray freedom of conciousness. By the right technique of the dense pattern of mind.”

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Category: Book Pages: 496 p. Dimensions: 23 x 15 cm. Cover: Paperback Binding: glue bound Process: laserprint Color: black-and-white Edition 150 Signed: no ISBN: 0971985502

Projecting Information into the Distant Future

Launch:
October 18, 2001. 16:30 GMT
International Center, Iowa City (Latitude 41.66 & Longitude -91.53)

Calling all time-travelers.

By creating this document to be institutionally archived as well as passed on as personal heirlooms we are sending you a message. If time-travel is possible when you are reading this please visit us at the above time and location.

The three frames within the video represent the past, present, and future events surrounding the precise moment the traveler should appear. All times used in the document were synced with the U.S. Naval Observatory atomic clock.

You will need a site to visit in the past which you will not disrupt. We are expecting you and will not be hostile as others who are surprised might become. The video will enter into personal and perhaps institutional archives to be later viewed by persons capable of traveling into the past to the moment in which we created the original video recording.

The key component of this process would be the archiving and preservation of the video in order to keep it “readable” by future people. It will be the duty of future archivists and librarians to convert the video into suitable and relevant formats.

The original video was captured on miniDV tape and later converted into Quicktime and Windows Media files.
View the Quicktime version

Other Resources:
Bebe Williams
MIT Conference

Note that our event predates the MIT event by several years.  This goes to show the University of Iowa is leading the way in cutting-edge research.

If a time-traveler does not appear, one of the following might be true:

1.Time-travel will never become possible.
2.Time-travel becomes possible. Their time travel capabilities are inadequate to visit us.
3.Time-travel becomes possible. They do not wish to visit us.
4.Our archiving and preservation techniques are inadequate. Our message does not reach the future.
5.Time travel becomes possible. They are willing and able to travel to the past. Our archiving and preservation techniques are adequate. The message has not been accessed in its future database.
6. Time travel becomes possible. They are willing and able to travel to the past. Our archiving and preservation techniques are adequate. We are not able to perceive or become aware of their visitation.

Scavenged snippets of damaged library A/V material reconstituted into an impressionistic video narrative about ‘helping.’ Displayed as single channel video as well as multiple monitor installation. Winner of the Juror’s Choice Award at the 2001 Film and Video Retrospective, Des Moines Art Center.

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