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Video installation by Bruce Nauman.

In Live/Taped Video Corridor, you walk down a long, very narrow corridor. At the end of the corridor there are two monitors on top of each other. The lower one shows a video tape of the corridor, the upper one shows a live (CCTV) video of the corridor, shot from a camera at a height of about 3 meters, at the entrance of the corridor. The effect is that as you walk down the corridor, you see yourself from the back, and as you approach the monitor you get further away from the camera so you never really get any closer to “yourself”.

Structured tagging: video, installation

Further reading:

• Some info from ZKM
• YouTube video

Ergodic video piece by Jennifer and Kevin McCoy.

The McCoys have worked with “database pieces” and in In Every Shot, Every Episode they painstakingly cut out and categorized 10 000 clips from Starsky & Hutch shows and put them on video CDs carrying the label of the category - “every extreme closeup”, etc.

Structured Tagging: ergodic, video, installation

Further reading:

• McCoy Space

Autonomous online video by MTAA

The 1 year performance video presents itself as what could be taken to be a streaming video of two people - the artists - dressed in black, each in his own small, white cell. They appear to be quite bored - bouncing a ball, staring at the ceiling, tapping something at a laptop, etc.

This is one of MTAA:s “updates” of performances, in this the one year performances by Tehching “Sam” Hsieh, in particular the first one (1978-1979) when he confined himself to a cell for one year.

The initial request is for the viewer to watch the piece for one year. It is quite obvious that the video is not actually a one year long video, but rather assembled from smaller pieces. This does not really matter, because it will still take a year to watch it. As the artists state, what they are doing is taking the burden of sitting in a cell for one year (like Sam Hsieh actually did in his original one year performance) and instead placing that burden on the viewer.

Further reading

• 1 year performance video - the online piece, please watch for one year
• MTAA.net - artist’s web page
• one year performance - info about Sam Hsiehs performances

Structured tagging

• online
• autonomous (even if it is sort of interactive in the way that it adapts to the time zone of the viewer)
• video

David Kjelkerud posted this video from the Man Machine 2 exhibition, now showing at the National Museum of Science and Technology (Tekniska Museet) in Stockholm. Enjoy.

Touching the Invisible was a touring exhibition featuring six of the Interactive Institute Smart Studio’s projects (Brainball, Brainbar, Hellhunt, Remote Home, Monochromeye and the Delay Mirror).

Here’s a video that somebody shot, edited and put online.

See also: Touching the Invisible website