Video Animation Screenprinted edition of 28 sequential plaid patterns. 11.5" x 15" While screenprinting an edition of 28 plaid patterns, Jennifer Schmidt sequentially modulated the hue of each color printed, while pulling ink through the screen. From cyan to dark blue, magenta to fire red, chartreuse to dark green-- a mood ring-like color spectrum is performatively created, determined by artistic process, whim and effect.

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7min Excerpt of 4 hour 24 minutes 3 Channel Video / 6 Channel Sound Hard Times / Scrabble Value: A Play in 2 Parts is an economic and textual analysis of the book “Hard Times” by Charles Dickens. By decoding the book via different filters: using Scrabble letter/number use values and noun pictorial representations, factual readings of the source material become “relatively” suggestive, posing a dialectical mode of reasoning and conversational word…

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Readers Digest features video footage of thousands of magazine pages becoming digested through analog video processing into a painterly scape of synthesized information-- pulling out graphics, colors and words indeterminately to form new compositions of popular information. The pages are animated sequentially to allow the graphics of the magazine pages to be a determinate of the flow and reception of content. The video footage was processed at the…

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While at Elsewhere Artist Collaborative in Greensboro, NC, I wandered through a collection of fabric patterns-- swatches of material on furniture, dolls, clothes, bags, sheets and curtains-- folded on shelves and rolled along the walls. The collection becoming in essence something else: a stylistic portrait of a particular genre, defined by the visual patterns present (their designs and colors spanning 1960-1987). Psychedelic Swatch is a play on…

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3-Channel Digital Video “Tulipomania / EverQuest” explores how we impart value to ephemeral things by juxtaposing the sensations of 17th century Tulipomania and the spirit of the contemporary videogame EverQuest, within a graphically animated video. 3 videos compose the project, "Turk Tulipo", "PA-Dutch Tulipo", and "Neth Tulipo", which portray independent scavenger hunts—tracing the presence and symbolism of the tulip motif within three distinct…

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