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xtine is a global media artist who engages
viewers via the Internet and new technologies. While she has lived
and worked in Boston, Berkeley, New York and Los Angeles, her media
art has no geographic bounds. Recent global projects include delocator.net,
delocator.mapyourcity.net (with Beatriz Da Costa) and mailavirus.net.
Selections of her works have exhibited nationwide, including at
The San Francisco Art Institute's Walter and McBean Gallery, The
Remote Lounge in New York, The Fifth Annual Digital Salon Show
at SVA in NY, The Palm Springs Film Festival, The Museum of Contemporary
Art, Santa Fe, NM, and The Anchorage Museum of History and Art;
and internationally at Sonar, a multimedia festival in Barcelona,
Spain, Prog:ME, a new media festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
as well as in international online juried exhibits on Memefest.org,
Ubu.org, Binaire.org, and Wigged.net. xtine is an Assistant Professor
of Visual Communication at California
State University, Fullerton.
Videos
Nighght
Save
Face
Manovich/Klingender Remix (A question of forms)
I Dunno
Graffiti
Models
Elian's House
Nighght*, Save Face, I Dunno, Models
This group of videos investigates the relationship(s)
between text, image and sound over time. As gestalt theory and
linguistic studies have shown, there is a visual-verbal dichotomy between
the image and language as signifiers of meaning. In these time-based
works, the third variable along the z-axis along with the audio,
whether a narrator's voice or ambient sound, are used to
create a Hegelian synthesis between the thesis (often posed by the
text) and antithesis (most often posed by imagery or audio).
*Yes, it's spelled nighght--a humble homage
to Aram Saroyan's one-word poem, Lighght.
Graffiti
This documented performance took place under a bridge in Boston,
MA circa 2000. Here I am, scrubbing away the graffiti under the
bridge with a toxic bleach-mixture and a scrub brush, while wearing
bright yellow gloves. At the end of my performance, the word,
"Graffiti", has been cleaned into the otherwise graffiti-filled
landscape. To remove my word, one would have to clean the entire
wall. A gesture towards feminist performances of the 20th Century,
a female graffiti writer/cleaner seems righteous for the 21st
Century city.
Manovish/Klingender Remix (A question of
forms)
In
this text-in-motion piece, two disparate essays on the notion of
formalism and formlessness are juxtaposed together and superimposed
over a virtual cube - the perfect modular form.
Elian's House
In May 2000 I projected the same eye-catching words used by news
and mass communications agencies to grab the public's attention
(in this case, to update news viewers about the Elian case)
on to Elian Gonzalez's Miami home with video artist, Charles
Recher.
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