http://zerofunction.com Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 13 May 2008 19:15:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Dear all I'm very happy to say that I'm a subject of Mike Hoolboom's new book "Practical Dreamers: Conversations With Movie Artists" (Coach House Books). The book launch is this Tuesday at the Gladstone. It's free. There will be talking and movies. Daniel ---- May 13th—An Evening with the ‘Practical Dreamers’ This Is Not ... http://zerofunction.com/announcements/practical-dreamers-conversations-with-movie-artists/ Dear all I'm very happy to say that I'm a subject of Mike Hoolboom's new book "Practical Dreamers: Conversations With Movie Artists" (Coach House Books). The book launch is this Tuesday at the Gladstone. It's free. There will be talking and movies. Daniel ---- May 13th—An Evening with the ‘Practical Dreamers’ This Is Not ... http://zerofunction.com/announcements/test/ Souls at Zero Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Pulse The death of the horror movie is so habitually lamented that its future is often limited to meta-irony and nostalgia. The climax of The Blair Witch Project (1999), in which its doomed documentarians were isolated in the spaces defined by their cameras, had the air of ... http://zerofunction.com/souls-at-zero/full-text-19/ BEN COONLEY INSTALLATION FOR DOMESTIC CATS Cinematexas Short Film Festival, Austin, Texas Sept. 14-23 “The installation invites cats to consider their split status as autonomous residents and decorative fixtures of the contemporary human domicile.  Humans… are given a window onto the way cats see themselves and the way humans consume non-object-based art.”   Coonley may ... http://zerofunction.com/ben-coonleys-installation/full-text-18/ VIDEOS BY MIRANDA JULY Tranz<—>Tech 2001, Latvian House, October 12 a co-presentation by Mercer Union, Pleasure Dome, and Artcite / House of Toast Is it perversely ungrateful to fault an audience for being too receptive?  Probably, so please forgive me…  In the warm glow of a packed Latvian House, July’s The Amateurist came ... http://zerofunction.com/videos-by-miranda-july/full-text-17/ Screensplitting Is the purpose of an anniversary to lose oneself in nostalgia for the numbered years gone by, or to prepare a new vision for the unnumbered ones to come? Both, of course… but it’s easier to talk about the past than the future. The past can be counted and recorded ... http://zerofunction.com/screensplitting/full-text-16/ Why I Hate Steve Reinke [Pleasure Dome catalogue essay for Why I Like Ugly Boys: recent videos by Steve Reinke Dec. 14 2002 Toronto] Please imagine as you read these words that they are not written, that you are not reading them, but rather that you are hearing them as the voiceover of a ... http://zerofunction.com/why-i-hate-steve-reinke/full-text-15/ MISFIT BLISS: Confessions of a Sociopath and other movies that don’t fit Each time we see a man walk on the wire, a part of us is up there with him… the experience of the high wire is direct, unmediated, simple, and it requires no explanation whatsoever.  The art is the thing ... http://zerofunction.com/misfit-bliss/full-text-14/ Nothing funny is going on here. Sebastian: Look, he’s winding up the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike. (Shakespeare, The Tempest) One can partially numb the sadness of past experience by transforming it into anecdote; a more complete (and perhaps more desperate) tactic is to make the anecdote into ... http://zerofunction.com/robert-lees-la-capitale-de-la-douleur/full-text-13/ AT THE CORNER OF EITHER & OR Will Kwan’s “Don’t Toe The Line, Or Toe Your Own Line” by Daniel Cockburn I confess: I have come relatively late in life to the art world. As such, my criteria for art slouch happily in the shadows of paradigms ingrained in me by a ... http://zerofunction.com/at-the-corner-of-either-and-or/full-text-12/