Patrolling the Ether
The end of analog broadcasts will be a boon for electronic anomalists. In the diaristic video essay Patrolling the Ether, eclectic electronic pursuits including EVP, EIP and Martian radio are bandied about by a disembodied voice emanating from beyond. Paranormal penchants aside, interviews and examples from Portland’s Pulse Emitter reveal the always already strange goings-on amongst electrons.
“Obsolescence is the moment of Superabundance,” Mcluhan once mused, and with mass media broadcasts making haste for digital pastures, electronic anomalists look forward to an excess of static filling their analog screens. From modular synthesis to fortean electronics, the end of analog broadcasts amplifies opportunities for all manner of etheric patrols! This borderline phenomena first emerged as part of the televisual installation BYOTV at the New American Art Union in 2008. After a ten month session of vidsonic surgery and supplemental research, a new single channel version is afloat.
Short interview with ATA festival
2010
From Portland With Love, NW Film Forum, Seattle, WA
Specters & Machines, La Enana Marron, Madrid
Selections from ATA Film & Video Festival, Millenium Film Workshop, NYC
2009
ATA Film & Video Festival, Artists Television Access, San Francisco,
Night of Live Video and More, Westside Welding and Machine, Vancouver, WA
The End of Analog, Other Cinema, San Francisco
