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RICE, video sound installation
RICE 1999, multi-channel video sound installation RICE contains abstract and non-objective images and sounds. The video is a realization of ever-changing sustained images. There can be an ever-larger number of fluctuations of ever-smaller amplitude. Unlike a repetitive optical pattern, the RICE images are a process in time that reflects the self-organized formation systems used to…
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Color (CNN)
Color (CNN) 2009, 21’23”; single-channel HD video Color was created with a CNN newscast projected on incense smoke performing as moving colored light. Incense smoke does not have a solid physical body and its form is infinitely variable. However, the smoke makes visible the subtle movement of air in the space and confers perceivable corporeal…
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A Raga Lesson
A Raga Lesson Film, 16mm, color, 11 min. (2007) A Raga Lesson is about the guru-disciple relationship among a small subset of Kirana gharana musicians in America, with the inaudible yet ever-present background of the music itself. Through fragments of the lives of musicians, this film shows how the tradition is passed down,…
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Room with a View
Room with a View 2006, 4’59”; single-channel video sound The visual element of Room With A View is comprised of cells and layers that together become interwoven strands of a video tapestry. Every cell simultaneously obeys a simple rule dependent on the original pattern of each of the layers. The layers freely superimpose and…
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Baby Blues
Baby Blues, 16 mm, 6 min. (2006) Up to 80% of postpartum women suffer Baby Blues. In severe cases, postpartum depression can cause the development of hallucinations; delusions occur in about 0.1 – 0.2% of all women after having given birth. Baby Blues illustrates a perfectly normal and happy woman who is destroyed by the…