[-empyre-] controversy

[Christina McPhee <christina112@earthlink.net>]

>

GH writes,


> I’m working on three projects right now. Each one is about  
> stripping bare reality. The processes are different. Let me  
> describe the procedures without telling you which belongs to which.
> 1) I walk around with a 1 gig flash memory audio recorder and  
> sample the sounds and conversations I hear and engage in. I do this  
> in 3 minute samples. I put the samples into an editing program and  
> then overlap them. What is produced is an immersive sound event  
> that is closer to the way we actually remember things.
> 2) I decide to go back to the origins of video art which is  
> essentially an artists doing something in front of a camera. When I  
> edit the footage, I am using myself to create a media object. I am  
> becoming a digital object that can be duplicated, sampled, cut  
> apart, endlessly multiplied and put back together.
> 3) You walk into a room and a film/video is projected on a wall.  
> The scenes played are not in any particular order yet they make  
> sense. What occurs is that a computer is picking sequences in a  
> random order and playing them. Your mind and your imagination fill  
> in the story.
> http://spaghetti.nujus.net/artDirt
> http://spaghetti.nujus.net/rantapod
> http://nujus.net/gh_04/gallery11.html

want to comment on this? relative to maybe, how this practice is  
'bare life; against stereotyping?