PHOTO - Robert Knight

Robert Knight,  Untitled (6 hours, December 13, 2009) Archival inkjet print 30''x39''

Knight has captured six hours of restless sleeping that culminates in a tangled blur of sheets.  And, the still image gives the viewer an accurate document of what has occurred.  Interestingly, despite the accuracy of this visual document, the blur or disappearance of a discernible figure gives the viewer a better concept of restless sleep.

PHOTO - Michael Wesely

Michael Wesely,  The Museum of Modern Art, New York (9.8.2001 - 2.5.2003)

Wesely's image of the MOMA under construction is an amazing document of the building process and was made using a large pinhole camera.  The many layers and ghost grids keep the entire photograph visually active.  It is this frenzy of activity and building that make the work a visual manifestation of life's experiences.  

CONVERGENCE - Nancy Davenport

Nancy Davenport, #1 still from Weekend Campus DVD (2004)

Weekend Campus is the product of a buildup of images.  Layer upon layer have created this visual stream of information relating youths, car crash scenes, and large blocky campus buildings together.  Continuously scrolling, this amalgamation of still images becomes a background loop as it is set in motion.  Davenport's work is neither a film, nor a photograph, yet it is built and utilizes aspects of both mediums.  By looping her still image, she has done away with an end and a beginning, rejecting the formal constraints of a photograph's borders and a film's length.  The viewer is ultimately held in suspension.

CONVERGENCE - Xavier Chassaing

Xavier Chassaing - Scintillation (2009) Film-Still

Scintillation is nearly a traditional film.  It is composed of over 35,000 still photographs that Xavier Chassaing took while also implementing intricate projection mapping onto his subjects.  Chassaing's way of organically building this video piece from still images allowed him the opportunity to record challenging visuals. He also has more control over the pace of the work and visual effects without sacrificing clarity of image.  This is the modern digital zoetrope blown apart with a total confusion of media.


To view Chassaing's Scintillation, click here.

CONVERGENCE - Guido van der Werve

Nummer Negen is the product of time-lapse photography.  Compiled to convey the passage of a full 24 hours in just 9 minutes, the image depicts Guido van der Werve's performance of standing at the North Pole for a day.  The figure remains centered, the frame also remains constant.  The sun traces an arch over van der Werve's figure as the audience allows those nine minutes of viewing to account for a full historical day.  The mechanics of this interaction are nearly identical to the viewer's experience of Wesely's MOMA time-lapse images.


To view a youtube clip of this work, click here.