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 web projects include delocator.net,
delocator.mapyourcity.net with Beatriz Da Costa, DoSomethingMoreAmazing.com,
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.
Send email to xtine@missconceptions.net.
Short 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.
Manovich/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.