(Modern)Formations
The project was realized during a month-long residency at Black and White Projects (San Francisco, CA) in 2016.
(Modern)Formations attempts to examine and extract the absurd beauty of being part of a world that is filtered through the screen. Capturing various individuals interacting with their personal smartphones, the project intends to explore the relationship of materiality (of devices), physicality (of actions) and virtuality (of the mind “wandering” and “drifting” into an altered virtual state). Through digital renditions and simulations of organic patterns and rhythms, the videos strive to create a zen-like ambience lulling the the viewers to zone-out.
(Modern)Formations III, Video installation view, Made In NY Media Center Dumbo, NY, 2018
(Modern)Formations I
Sound by Chris Corrente
Video Loop (Single-Channel), 11min 26sec*, 2016
Sound by Chris Corrente
Video Loop (Single-Channel), 11min 26sec*, 2016
* 1min 30sec excerpt (00:00:00 - 00:01:30)
(Modern)Formations II
Sound by Chris Corrente
Video Loop (Single-Channel), 11 min 26sec**, 2016
Sound by Chris Corrente
Video Loop (Single-Channel), 11 min 26sec**, 2016
** 1min 30sec excerpt (00:00:00 - 00:01:30)
(Modern)Formations III
Video Loop (Single-Channel), 24mins 42secs***, 2016
Video Loop (Single-Channel), 24mins 42secs***, 2016
*** 1minute excerpt (00:18:18 - 00:019:18)
The video documents smartphone behaviors of the following 34 individuals:
Eliza Dennis / Jana Rumberger / Ian Coyle / Chris Corrente / Rhiannon MacFadyen / Ryan Phelans / Jason Wyman / Lauren Watley / Jeffrey Songco / Jenny Odell / Niki Korth / Candace Cui / Cristina Victor / Steven Vasquez Lopez / Sean Stevens / Que Newbill / Mike Goldstein / Craig Calderwood / Meredith MacFadyen / Kellie Flint / Katie Marshall / Kate Rhoades / Maria Dawn Lewis / Dorothy Santos / Nicole Crescenzi / Sai Li / Colleen Mulvey / Katrina Sauch / Lana Williams / Conrad Guevara / Lindsay Tully / Cy Jockson / Ricardo Saavedra / Daniel Samaniego / Cathy Lu / Brooke Westfall / Krisztina Lazar / Michelle L. Morby
Eliza Dennis / Jana Rumberger / Ian Coyle / Chris Corrente / Rhiannon MacFadyen / Ryan Phelans / Jason Wyman / Lauren Watley / Jeffrey Songco / Jenny Odell / Niki Korth / Candace Cui / Cristina Victor / Steven Vasquez Lopez / Sean Stevens / Que Newbill / Mike Goldstein / Craig Calderwood / Meredith MacFadyen / Kellie Flint / Katie Marshall / Kate Rhoades / Maria Dawn Lewis / Dorothy Santos / Nicole Crescenzi / Sai Li / Colleen Mulvey / Katrina Sauch / Lana Williams / Conrad Guevara / Lindsay Tully / Cy Jockson / Ricardo Saavedra / Daniel Samaniego / Cathy Lu / Brooke Westfall / Krisztina Lazar / Michelle L. Morby
