Curator: CATHERINE TAFT
Spencer Douglass & Gustavo Herrera
Buffalo Mierda 3min 43sec 2008
Buffalo Mierda is a collage stop-motion animation constructed from ephemera culled from magazines, books, sidewalks and thrift shops. An animated overview of a violent, mystic, wonderfully turbulent world that reflects the heart of psychic Americana.
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Jesse Reding Fleming
Points of Entry 40sec. 2008
Points of Entry is an amalgamated sketch book. It chronicles the ins and outs associated with travel and place. It's a quick compounded elixir of those dizzy, funny, liberating, little-and-large moments we go through in flux or static states.
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Nikhil Murthy
Two Crashes (1926/2007) 4min. 53sec. 2010
Two Crashes (1926/2007) is a focused investigation of special effects and the costs associated with the technology of moving images. By juxtaposing what was "high tech" at the beginning of the twentieth century to what is considered "high tech" today, this video constructs a dialectic on value systems: the value of entertainment, machinery, and images.
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Kelly Sears
Voice on the Line 6min. 45sec. 2009
Enchanting operators, covert government plots, Cold War paranoia and ordinary telephones forever changed how we got in touch with one another...
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Catherine Taft is a Los Angeles-based writer and curator. She is a regular contributor to publications including Artforum, ArtReview, Modern Painters, Metropolis M and exhibition catalogs in the United States and abroad. In addition to her writing, Taft is Curatorial Associate in the Department of Architecture and Contemporary Art at the Getty Research Institute, where she helped organize the 2008 exhibition, "California Video," and where she is currently working on "Pacific Standard Time," an exhibition of post-war art from Los Angeles, scheduled to open at the Getty in October 2011.
