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Image credit: Lloyd Wong Unfinished, by Lesley Loski Chan (2025)
An homage to Chicago artist and toolmaker Dan Sandin’s 1973 video, Five-minute Romp through the IP, in which Sandin demos the Image Processor (IP), a modular analog video synthesizer he built the same year, and encouraged artists to "copy it right." In this video (created while at an artist’s residency in… ⊕
2024, 06:35 minutes
tapecode 2102.24
Inspired by Phil Morton's classic 1976 video, Colorful Colorado, as well as Panzarino’s first artist's residency at Signal Culture’s new studio space in Loveland, Colorado. Panzarino processes footage of a drive through Rocky Mountain National Park using Signal Culture's Wobbulator, Jones MVIP Eurorack module (an… ⊕
Footage was shot on June 28, 2021, and records the various actions that build to a single performance. The work dialogues with the performance for camera tradition, but it is clearly edited and narratively stylized. There is no direct audience. The main recorded action is me sitting on bags of ice for several hours while they… ⊕
The videotape MONEY is assembled from downloaded MP4 sequences depicting exchange and currency transfers – whether digital or old school paper variety. This hyper-pecuniary landscape also hosts a cellphone dialogue between two friends overwhelmed by technological determinism and by post-post Fordist economies strained… ⊕
M U S I C commences with a waiting piano and a collage of chattering voices at a concert hall. The voices chatter consistently for four minutes and thirty three seconds. There is a montage of various musical images but no music. Then the voices stop and there is another definitely non-musical sound. There is another closing… ⊕