Time (tîm) n.

[on site] video program:
excerpt from National Geographic's The Invisible World, 1979 US
Halflifers Rescue World, 1994 4 min. US
Bass/Benstock/Losey The Box, 1997 4 min UK
Laurie Halsey Brown of moving time, 2002 6 min US
Yael Bartana Trembling Time, 2001 6 min. NL
Sliuk/Kupershock The March UTU, 1986 18 min. NL

Time is an inherent element of moving image. These works explore both a physical and psychological view of time. Accelerated time is seen in the National Geographic excerpt as well as in the work of the Halflifers. In their work, the acceleration of time is seen as futuristic; with human interaction in relation to this being both comic and anxiety-provoking. Bass/Benstock/Losey respond to the individual as isolated in relation to acceleration of time within contemporary society. Brown uses interiors and exteriors to metaphorically describe our process of time, with video manipulation as a way to describe the internal/psychological/non-linear. Yael Bartana looks at time as it forms memory as does Sliuk/Kupershock; who create a work which includes how memory operates in the digital age.-lhb

[BIOGRAPHIES OF (some of the) VIDEO ARTISTS]
Laurie Halsey Brown is an artist from New York presently living in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She creates projects about being there that deal with a psychological, experiential relationship to architecture and surrounding ideas of (dis)location, simultaniety and reflection. http://www.movinginplace.net

HALFLIFERS is an ongoing collaborative project created by longtime friends Torsten Z. Burns and Anthony Discenza. Burns received his BFA in Media Art from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 1990 and an MFA in Performance and Video from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1993. He currently resides in Brooklyn. Anthony Discenza received a BFA in studio art from Wesleyan University in 1990 and an MFA in video from C.C.A.C. in 2000. He currently resides in West Oakland, CA. Their installation projects have shown at the Jenn Joy Gallery in San Francisco and with SMART Project Space at the KunstvlaaI3 Art Fair in Amsterdam. Their single-channel works, including The Rescue, Action, Island, and Pioneer series have screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the New York Video Festival, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, Pacific Film Archive, Impakt Festival in the Netherlands, EMAF Festival in Germany, Pandaemonium Festival in England, Pleasuredome in Canada, and, most recently, at the Videoex00 Festival in Zurich, Switzerland.