3. TAV

Leap; Leap.mp4

Artist Statement_mbarone.mp4

Meredith Barone, Artist Statement (2018)

All Alone Upon Your Throne.mp4

Tallulah Hood, All Alone Upon Your Throne (2018)

Simone Ashmoore, First TAV (2018)

Author's Note: The part of both Hannah Sullivan and Heavy Industries’ pieces I was most excited about was the control over how long the audience takes in a particular piece of text. I started making a spoken poem over a photo series, but began to feel like I was hiding by writing behind murmured, rushed, and digitally altered speech. For that reason I started a new project using written text on screen that I could lengthen or shorten as I pleased. One of my focusses was making the text look like what it was saying, in line with the CGI poetry I had viewed as part of the last project. My biggest struggle was that as soon as I had composed the each text element how I liked visually, I started to treat them like video clips which I could remove chunks of and rearrange, so that soon the text was in a strange order and without transitions between elements. Though I think this jumpiness may be something fun to engage with in TAV work, I also find the finished project somewhat lacking.

I was inspired by poetry, performance, and video’s connection with feminist/feminine work in the past and wanted to engage with that history. I decided to talk about (talk through?) Luis Bunuel’s film City of Women because I love the film, but think it presents a complex, and sometimes troubling take on toxic masculinity and female social and political action. I have been thinking a lot about such dynamics in today’s cultural climate. I had trouble congealing and literalizing my thoughts on the film and my concept, and I am pretty frustrated with my poem. TAV poetry proved a bit more challenging than I had anticipated, but I think the form has a lot of potential connections to the way I think and make work and plan to keep trying to make TAV projects in the future.

I, A Computer on the desk.mp4

Dessery Dai, I, a Computer on the Desk (2018)

bedtime_final.mp4

Phil Bayer, Bedtime Story (2018)

keywords: dream, 3d, head

technology: blender3d, video, audio reversal

statement: Bedtime Story is a short video of a my virtual surrogate describing a dream we had. He speaks to the void, and the top of his head wobbles a bit as he speaks.

Monotony_AnushkaBansal.mp4

Anushka Bansal, Monotony (2018)

TAV Poem, ArthurKim, 3.14.18.mov

Arthur Kim, Blue Wall (2018)

Duration: 0:01:28

of a field of a field.mov

Tiff Bushka, of a field of a field (2018)

Keywords: neural net

Tech Details: video and audio

Author’s Statement: of a field of a field consists of static recordings of room objects with spoken descriptions. The text for the piece was generated by an image caption generating neural network in its early stages of learning. The neural net must go through a million rounds of training until it is “ready;” I stopped mine periodically between steps 400 and 7,000. The resulting phrases are inaccurate and occasionally funny.

sank in heaven.mp4

LIgia Carabarin-Amiguet, Sank in Heaven (2018)

Author's Note: Sank in Heaven is an audio/visual exploration of my physical limitations and comfortability. Using animation of fabrics overlayed on one another with color distortion I interpreted my own form of fluid. I have heavily associated bodies of water as a source of rehabilitation and comfort. When thinking about my physical disability and my bodies limitations, idealizations of movement and freedom became a recurring theme within my own day to day. The symbolism of heaven is the intangible quality it has within a bodily form. Both being spineless and Heaven are unreachable yet desired. Freedom found within the liberation of a body and into a fluid shape. Water becomes a palpable Heaven within earth.

StephanieWinarto_TAV.mp4

Stephanie Winarto, Little Craters (2018)

Video, Google Maps.

Duration: 0:00:38

Author's Note: Growing up, my childhood summers were spent in my parents hometown of Surabaya, Indonesia, whilst the rest of the year would be spent in polished and glamorous Hong Kong. I enjoy revisiting the memories of these two drastically different cities that I love. In Surabaya, the roads are a treacherous thing. You could even say a lot of the drivers perform freestyle driving, with road rules as mere suggestions to the driver. As a child, car rides in Surabaya were an exciting thing: swerving to dodge potholes, bumps, hills.

Kela Johnson, Pearl Diver (2018)

Digitally recorded video and audio,; Web based, Final Cut Pro

Author's Note: Pearl Diver is a text-audio-visual poem which draws influence from reflection on the now-obsolete

motivations and processes of pearl diving and fur trapping. Both commodify nature, involve interaction with husks

and rely on a relationship between organic generation and human commerce.

Anita Qian, The House (2018)

The House.mp4

Krista Young, Lunch (2018)

LUNCH.mp4

Author's Note

I’ve taken snippets of spoken audio from vintage food and beauty advertisements and created a new collage poem out of them, paired with visuals of the contents of my trash bin. I was feeding from two sources: 1) inspired by a single moment (which I was fast enough to pause and screen grab) from one of the Heavy Industries poems (see screenshot below). 2) inspired by my monotonous, cyclic feeling of eating, throwing away, taking out the trash, eating trash (?), always feeling lonely during lunch, feeling like trash etc.

The audio becomes a sort of setting for the slow-mo trash imagery, creating a soft, slow, story for the audience. I aim to encourage a sort of dreamy repetition with the added music audio in the background, a sort of never-ending trash, elevator music, curated female/male banter melange

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