January 1, 2005
Turbulence Artists' Studios: "Flash Polaroids" by Brian Kim Stefans
http://turbulence.org/studios/stefans/
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The "Flash Polaroids" occupy a middle ground between an experimental
film/video aesthetic–particularly the works that use the single frame
as the unit of composition–and interactive installation video works.
The earlier "Studies", partly inspired by David Crawford's Stop Motion
Studies, involve loops of digital photographs taken in quick succession.
The "Portraits" involve several views of the same subject in
juxtaposition, and could be compared to a Warholian take on the portrait
- a moving image that essentially sits still, or a still image that
moves only slightly over time. The "Micro-narratives" introduce
"stories" to the Flash Polaroids, especially "Guy Cat Pan," which, like
a metaphysical painting of De Chirico, gets its charge by placing
disparate, enigmatic objects on the same stage. The "Interactive" set
pushes outward toward the user, and demonstrates what could be done with
this simple use of Flash and digital photographs as projections in an
installation setting.

BIOGRAPHY

Known primarily as a poet, Brian Kim Stefans has been producing work for
the web since 1998. His most well-known work is "The Dreamlife of
Letters," a 14-minute Flash poem that can be found, along with other
works, at www.arras.net in the "web poetry" section. Other web projects
include the anti-war blog "Circulars," and the series of New York Times
detournements called "The Vaneigem Series," which incurred a
cease-and-desist letter from the Times (see interview). He edits the
series of Slash Ubu e-books that are found at www.ubu.com/ubu, and has
published several books of poetry ("Free Space Comix," Gulf," "Angry
Penguins") and one of experimental criticism, "Fashionable Noise: On
Digital Poetics." He is working on a new series of 24 short pieces of
digital poetry called "A Book Of Poems," due in Spring 2005.

For more information about Turbulence Artists' Studios, please visit
http://turbulence.org/studios


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