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Broken Screen is comprised of informal conversations between artist Doug Aitken and a roster of 26 carefully chosen artists, filmmakers, designers, and architects. Part guidebook and part manifesto, the book takes a fresh look at what it's like to create work in a world that has become increasingly fragmentary. Through casual and direct discussions Broken Screen offers a detailed navigation through the ideas behind the important yet under-documented visual language of nonlinear narratives, split screens, and fragmentary visual planes that define the most progressive moving images today. Presented in 26 illustrated chapters, the focus here lies on the shattering of the linear narrative in the visual arts through the use of image-based work to articulate the speed and fragmentation of modern life. Perhaps best of all, Broken Screen is a unique opportunity for readers to learn the thoughts and personal beliefs of these artists in their own words and imagery, unencumbered by critical or commercial filters, and communicated in the manner of a conversation between friends. It also seeks to produce a cultural manifesto for new communication, expression, and understanding in both the present and future--much as Marshall McLuhanis Medium is the Massage did. With its accessible conversational style, forward-thinking graphic design, and over 300 high-contrast images, Broken Screen extends across many disciplines including art, film, design, and architecture, and is sure to become an important document of our time.
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Expanding the conversation.......2006-08-15
As a film editor, this book is particularly amazing to me. I see it as the textbook I couldn't find in school. It really should be in the curriculum for anyone interested in film, art and music...pretty much everyone. Each interview comes across as what I imagine it really was: a casual conversation between artists...artists relevant to most everything we see today. An eclectic collection of people with insight you might not get anywhere else.
Read it and lets expand the conversation.
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In January and February of 2007, the Los Angeles-based video artist Doug Aitken projected a new work, commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art and the New York arts institution Creative Time, onto seven facades on and around MoMA's fabled West Fifty-third Street building. Sleepwalkers was both inspired by, and offered in opposition to, the densely built midtown environment; it integrated itself onto the surfaces on which it was projected, and it challenged viewers' perceptions of architecture and public space. The piece, which follows the trajectories of five characters as they make their way through nocturnal New York, explores Aitken's key recurring themes: broken and recombined narratives, the rhythm and flow of information and images, and the relationship of individuals to their environment. The viewer, as a pedestrian, a participant and a vital component of New York's energetic system, becomes part of the work, and of the interactive personal landscape that Aitken creates in and among the hard-edged concrete and glass language of Manhattan's architecture. In addition to documentation of Sleepwalkers, this publication contains an overview of the artist's work to date, with special emphasis on works since 2001. It also contains conversations between Aitken and a variety of artists, architects, writers and performers about different elements of city life, from the lit signage of Times Square to a taxi driver's eye view of the streets.
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I Am a Bullet : Scenes from an Accelerating Culture
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Doug Aitken
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Broken Screen: Expanding The Image, Breaking The Narrative
ASIN: 0609604090
Release Date: 2000-07-18 |
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The title of this mélange of journalism, cultural critique, and pop art comes directly from the mouth of the only man who has ever traveled close to the speed of sound without a vehicle. In 1960, Captain Joseph Kittinger jumped from a helium balloon almost 20 miles up, with 99 percent of the earth's atmosphere beneath him. He plummeted at 614 mph, but strangely, felt nothing. Until his senses reoriented themselves, he thought he was floating.
Right now, according to the creators of this intriguing book, acceleration is the main event. It is "the prime physical, technological and even spiritual engine of this moment." The question the book tries to answer is, How do we experience speed? To find out, the author and photographer went on-site to document 10 subcultures that particularly embody the strategy of constant movement as an effort to get outside of time. Probing essays and photo collages examine public auctions, which feed on the increasing frenzy of consumerism, and the infamously speedy Japanese youth culture, where individualistic critique is emerging for the first time and identity is up for grabs. Truckers become a rolling metaphor for America as they constantly fail to escape from time. Demolition derby drivers look for raw catharsis. And in clock-free Las Vegas, "no time is good time and good time is lucky." Then there is the pandemic of gangs on the Sioux reservations in South Dakota, an idea introduced through media bombardment. This is not necessarily easy reading (the typeface itself is often tiny), but it does offer fascinating insight into the American mythological terrain of becoming (which requires perpetual motion) and the consequences of "constantly treading water at the surface of change." --Lesley Reed
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I Am A Bullet is about people transformed by an accelerating world. These stunning essays combine on-site research and penetrating images as they investigate unique individuals in raw and open engagement with speed. From the literal velocity of breaking the sound barrier in a car to the consumerist purity of Tokyo youth to the violence of Native American gangs, this book delivers an essential understanding of how the speed of change is shaping your life right now--and tomorrow.
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speed freak.......2000-09-13
Dude, this book is the bomb. I saw it on my friend's coffee table, and first started just looking at the pictures. I especially liked the stuff about the demolition derby, because those people are like Springer material, but you get the feeling that they have real lives and stuff, which is a perspective I was totally into. When I started reading the essays, at first I didn't get that it was all interconnected, but by the end I understood that there is a lot in common between say, teenage chicks in Tokyo and gangbangers in South Dakota. Even if you're too lazy to actually read it, you'll look a lot smarter just having it around.
text at the speed of sound.......2000-09-04
It seems Aitken and Kuipers have taken the best lessons from their association with "Raygun" and left behind the more Sprockets- like habits that often made that publication frustrating, if not plain unreadable. We not only know exactly what Kuipers is talking about in each essay, but get involved enough in these disparate and exotic locales to want to make the thematic stretches that are sometimes required. The text style is something I found especially interesting, and be it genius or accident, placing all text in caps accelerates the rate of comprehension in an almost imperceptible way. Given the theme of acceleration and the speed of culture, I found myself part of an experiment I quite enjoyed. The piece about the Lakota boys in Wanblee forsaking the warrior culture of their ancestors for that of TV sensibility gangland posturing is chilling and unbearably sad. Aitken's photos are exceptionally moving in this piece, especially that of a boy around 16 leaning against a tattered babyseat with an aluminum Louisville Slugger, waiting in his res grotto of chaos, diapers, and abject boredom for something to move him. I like very much that Kuipers refrains from editorializing about their lives, and he seems to have an unfailing sense about when to let the subject speak for him or herself. An outstanding effort.
bullet proof.......2000-08-30
I Am A Bullet is an amazing book about the state of pop culture. Its scope--these guys go all over the world and find the same obsession in 10 totally different forms--makes the text incredibly lively, a real page-turner. But you'll slow down to look at the images, which make the ideas here all the more vivid.
Do rayguns have bullets?.......2000-08-01
I'd actually give the photography and design of this book 4.5 stars, but feel the book is let down by the text. It reads as a series of magazine articles which skim over the subject matter without saying much that is particularly insightful. I can't help comparing the text to the work of someone like Paul Virillio on speed and contemporary life, although obviously Virillio writes from the other end of the cultural spectrum.
Doug Aitken's photography is superb as usual. I'm amazed at how he doesn't seem to get locked into one particular style, yet can still pull his imagery together into a cohesive whole. The design of the book is definitely from the Raygun school, where they make you work to get the words. That works in this context, and does not feel too overworked.
Overall this book stems from an interesting idea, the notion of different versions of "speed" in global culture. If you enjoy magazines like Raygun, The Face, Dazed and Confused etc, you'll like this.
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Form Follows Fiction
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Doug Aitken ,
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Olafur Eliasson ,
Cai Guo-Qiang ,
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As elements of our life move closer to art, and as art moves directly into life, the differences between the artificial and real are becoming progressively blurred. Form Follows Fiction focuses on a generation of artists who can no longer follow the modernist dictum "form follows function"; as our model of reality becomes more layered and less concrete, that decree morphs inevitably into "form follows fiction." Some of these artists create structures that intersect with everyday life, while others construct elaborate fictional systems that fuse elements of reality and fantasy. Some fashion elaborate invented worlds where past, present, and future are collapsed into one and where art historical icons and the debris of contemporary pop culture have equal relevance. All have developed new models of contemporary reality that are as fictional as they are real. Form Follows Fiction was conceived as a sequel to the 1992 exhibition Post Human, also curated by Jeffrey Deitch, which explored a new model of the human condition, pushing deep into the confusion between the artificial and the real.
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American video and installation artist Doug Aitken exploded on the international art scene with his multi-screen work electric earth, which captivated audiences at the Venice and Whitney Biennales. This work focused on the bizarre nocturnal experiences of a young man exploring the edges of Los Angeles, presenting dream-like sequences which rearrange the linear flow of narrative into a series of unforgettable, disjointed photographic tableaux. Like much of his work, it contrasts the high-tech speed of contemporary daily life with the monotony of the urban landscape. In subsequent work set in distant places, from the island of Montserrat to the jungles of Guyana, Aitken creates unexpected yet beautiful imagery which encircles the viewer and creates a suspended, hyper-real portrait of contemporary life.
In the Survey, curator and critic Daniel Birnbaum sets Aitken's art within the context of contemporary philosophy and the work of other recent artists who have explored expanded notions of time and space; in the Interview frieze publisher and critic Amanda Sharp discusses the artist's working methods; in the Focus section critic Jsrg Heiser looks at Aitken's recent i am in you, a five-screen work centering on the imaginative experiences of a young girl. For his Artist's Choice Aitken has selected a short story by Jorge Luis Borges whose description of altered realities through the distortions of mirrors and memory echoes the artist's own interests. Artist's Writings include Aitken's retelling of an unusual story he once heard from strangers which served as the basis for subsequent video work.
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Doug Aitken. Notes for New Religion
Henry Grunwald ,
Jorg Heiser , and
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The installation "Electric Earth," debuted at the 1999 Venice Biennale, brought international recognition to the video and media artist Doug Aitkin. In the piece, a dancer roams a transitory realm of wasted landscapes. Aitken, whose protagonists are usually natural landscapes and cityscapes, here links the electrified structures of our urban world with the nervous system of the human body. The piece, with its pop-surrealist overtones, also reveals Aitken's roots as a director of music videos. This artist's book, laid out in a landscape format, presents fascinating views of natural and urban lanscapes and structures from the video. Gijs van Tuyl, in his essay, writes, "You don't have to look through it passively from A to Z...it offers up a space in which the reader can move freely...in order to create a story in the here and now, in the flow of time."
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Fast Forward
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Eija-Liisa Ahtila ,
Doug Aitken ,
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Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography
ASIN: 3980806391
Release Date: 2004-02-02 |
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At this point in art time, new media work needs no longer be prefixed by "new." With a firm place in institutional and private collections, with an ever-burgeoning range of practitioners, media art can safely be considered a part of the contemporary canon. And hence Fast Forward, a hefty, thorough reference guide, a virtual catalogue raisonn of the medium, from works found in the Goetz Collection. Over 180 film and video works by almost 80 international artists are represented, including: Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Doug Aitken, Chantal Akerman, Francis Als, Emmanuelle Antille, Kutlug Ataman, Matthew Barney, Andrea Bowers, Janet Cardiff, George Bures Miller, Tacita Dean, Rineke Dijkstra, Stan Douglas, Tracey Emin, Peter Fischli, David Weiss, Douglas Gordon, Rodney Graham, Mona Hatoum, Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler, Pierre Huyghe, Annika Larsson, Sharon Lockhart, Steve McQueen, Bj0rn Melhus, Arnout Mik, Tracey Moffatt, Sarah Morris, Gabriel Orozco, Tony Oursler, Paul Pfeiffer, Jeroen de Rijke / Willem de Rooij, Pipilotti Rist, Santiago Sierra, Beat Streuli, Sam Taylor-Wood, Diana Thater, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rosemarie Trockel, and Gilian Wearing. The book is rounded off with introductory essays by Peter Weibel, Stephan Urbaschek, Mark Nash, and Sabine Himmelsbach, plus short essays on individual artists, and bibliographic and technical information.
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This crowd of artists, as exuberant as this collection's title, were recruited for a mini-survey of contemporary art based on the diversity of their approaches and practices, which the editors saw as representative. Their work in a variety of media from film and video to painting and installation is informed by everyday life, and addresses issues such as ecology, technology, popular culture and globalization. The pieces gathered here include a mix of key moments in conceptual art and newly commissioned works, sourced from the artists' studios and from international collections. Contributors include Liam Gillick, Carsten Holler, Douglas Gordon, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Jorge Pardo, Sarah Morris, Cerith Wyn Evans, Sarah Lucas, Anri Sala, Doug Aitken, Jim Lambie, Paola Pivi, Carles Congost and Eva Rothschild, and their work appears alongside pieces from the estates of Alighiero e Boetti and Bas Jan Ader. With texts from Liam Gillick and Kurt Vonnegut, among others.
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Doug Aitken: A-Z Book (Fractals)
Doug Aitken , and
Philippe Parreno
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ASIN: 3775712917
Release Date: 2003-05-02 |
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Doug Aitken makes art at the edge of the world, with a kind of primitivism and ritualism unusual for video but mysteriously present in work that hovers at the edge where desert meets sea. Rise presents stills and installation shots from rise, the mirror, moving, these restless minds, 2-second separation, and i am in you, alongside an essay and interview with the artist.
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Doug Aitken: Alpha
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ASIN: 3905701111
Release Date: 2006-03-01 |
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Description: "I became restless with the flat surface of the screen so the work gradually evolved into the rest of the space," says Doug Aitken of his multichannel film work. Lately he has been projecting from multiple points onto a single structure. And he has turned from wide-open and lonely landscapes (Electric Earth, Diamond Sea) to wide-open and lonely people (new skin). The protagonist of the surreal Alpha, played by cult actor Udo Kier is both: as he travels, he dematerializes and becomes the space that he inhabits. Luckily for readers, Aitken is as bored with the square shape of the conventional book as he is with the conventional screen: this collection of Alpha images, accompanied by text from the artist, is bound in the shape of a head in profile.
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Cosmetic color celebrates and enhances a woman's natural beauty.
Color plays an extraordinary role in our lives. Colors a woman uses express her moods and highlight her natural beauty. Color in beauty is all about enhancing the way you feel as well as the way she looks. For example, those who wear red lipstick tend to smile more.
Unforgettable Color is divided into seven color chapters: red; orange and coral; yellow and gold; green and blue; purple and lilac; pink; and neutral. Each color chapter covers:
basic healthy and beauty advice
step-by-step applications and treatments
tips on using color on eyes, lips, face, and nails
analysis of how shades and palettes of a color can work with different skin tones and hair colors
Unforgettable Color includes seven fascinating profiles of vibrant woman of all ages -- mothers, musicians, artists, students -- who share personal stories of their lives and experiences as well as their beauty regime and makeup style. These women exemplify that beauty all depends on the personality and character of the woman herself.
Extra beauty tips throughout cover: special occasion and evening makeup, eyebrow shaping, skincare, mascara application, pedicures and more. Shopping Pages at the back of the book provide specific Revlon information for every product referred to in the color chapters.
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Unforgettable Color allows any woman to experiment with cosmetic color with confidence and flair.
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