Gregg BIERMANN : Labyrinthine (EXCERPT 11-12)

EXCERPT Ref 11-5008

Online excerpt for the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid 2011-2012.

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Gregg BIERMANN : Labyrinthine | Video | dv | color | 00:14:40 | USA | 2010

Synopsis

This is a recent piece in my series of computational transformations of iconic scenes taken from classic Hollywood films. Forty-one separate shots that have been appropriated and excised from the Hitchcock classic Vertigo are repeated and re-sequenced into a composite sequence of concentric rectangles. Each rectangle appears over the last and grows larger over time. The narrative of the original is all but lost and in its place is a hypnotic and meditative display of forms and sounds.

Biographic notes

Gregg Biermann’s work is in the collection of FRAC Limousin has been exhibited internationally at Nam Jun Paik Art Center, Seoul, Korea; Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Strasbourg; Festival Images Contre Nature, Marseille; Film Festival of Experimental and Different Cinemas of Paris; Rencontres Internationales, Paris; Electrochoc Festival, Rhones-Alpes; Centre Images, Vendôme, France; Osterreiches Filmmuseum, Vienna, Austria; European Media Art Festival, Osnabruek, Hamburg Film Festival, Germany; The Caracas Contemporary Art Museum; The National Cinematheque, Venezuela; Media Art Friesland, IMPAKT Panorama, Noordelijk Film Festival, The Netherlands; Optica International Festival of Video Art, Gijon, Spain;VIDEOEX, Zurich, Switzerland and INVIDEO, Milan, and Abstracta, Rome, Italy. His work has also been exhibited in the USA at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts/San Francisco Cinematheque; Baltimore Museum of Art; Corcoran Gallery; Hunter Museum of American Art; National Gallery of Art; Cleveland Institute of Art; Anthology Film Archives; U.C. Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive; Centraltrak Gallery, Univ. of Texas at Dallas; Weisman Art Museum, Univ, of Minnesota; California Institute of the Arts; Los Angeles Filmforum/Echo Park Film Center; ArtPace San Antonio; Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center; Visual Arts Center of New Jersey and the Jersey City Museum.

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