Interviewer: Thonny Vargas Interviewee: Jamie Benson T: Your “Teleport Sound” helps imply the unreal quality of this work. How did you come to add it? J: Well initially, I wanted a cheeky, surreal quality to the discovery of the time-travel object, perhaps as a juxtaposition to the danger I also was interested in […]
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Artist Interview / Statement “Time Travel Tambourine”
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BONUS POST: See Project 1 (Renamed “Ball’s Revenge”) with Sound & Small Edits!
Hello Everyone. I made minor cuts and added in some sound accents to give my Project 1 assignment a more complete feeling. I thought I would share it just so we can see how that changes matters. It seemed relevant for our upcoming assignment too. I dunno. Take a look – It’s only a minute […]
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Artist Statement / Short Film “Thrown Away”
As an artist, I aim to challenge performance traditions and innovate accessibly original work through audacious choreography. By rummaging through the humor and profundity in everyday rituals and landscapes, my irreverent brand of performance demystifies enigmatic fine art forms, creating new access points for a mass audience. In a comic turn, Thrown Away, absurdifys […]
Natural Destruction and Cheeky Intentions / By Jamie Benson
In the piece, Ever is Over All, by Pipilotti Rist, a stark juxtaposition is used to convey beauty, destruction and perhaps even delusion. Ms. Rist exhibits two overlapping video moments simultaneously and, as far as I could tell, placed them at a right angle within the exhibition space. She chose to use the camera at […]
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