PARK4DTV was an Amsterdam artist initiative that dealt with the promotion and implementation of the production of art, especially art on television and the establishment of events, with emphasis on time-based arts. From 1991 - 2006 PARK4DTV aired nightly broadcasts of exactly one hour of 'Pure Image and Sound' at the Amsterdam cable television with the motto: The same works were broadcasted on television stations in Rotterdam, New York, Berlin and Ekaterinburg. Since 2006 PARK4DTV focused on digital media art, including art DVDs, Urban Screens, and handheld computers. PARK4DTV published the App RAUDIO IIIII 3 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1996.
UntitledParis Couleurs, a compilation of archival film material, deals with the image of the migrant in cinema and television throughout the century. From ”Zoos Humains” to the mythical ”Black-Blanc-Beur” of the year 1998, the film follows a history of representation, clichés and stereotypes. With this film Pascal Blanchard and Eric Deroo present a new audiovisual version of their research program “from the native to the immigrant” and their point of view of the relation between colonial history and the history of immigration.
UntitledPare de Sufrir, cease suffering, is the name of a church very near to the house where I lived in Guadalajara (Mexico). This video is about madness, faith, consumer culture, advertising, design, identity... The images are photographs that I took during long walks through the city, and they focus on Mexican advertising and graphic design, which shows a great sense of humor. I'm fascinated by the functionality of the graphic design there, which doesn't focus so much on creating an image or on competition - something which I greatly appreciated, specially after living in a city like Barcelona. The audio is based on interviews with psychiatric patients in Central America, which I found in a publications and asked 5 girls that I met in the city to read out. For me there is no difference between text and image, both of them surround us every day, and I don't think an image is worth more than a thousand words. I don't consider it my task to create, but to recreate myself within the things I experience, to make them my own. Every image and every text has its place in the story of each video, and the fact that the images do not correspond to the audio, and that they are mixed with written text, creates free associations and adds new subjective meanings to the stories.
"Paralysis - on the state of terror" is a documentary about our archival and records systems, and the role of images in constructing our past. The mental images of individual memory, the personal and subjective filing system of unique historical experiences that, when told, become eye-witness accounts, and archival material as a device/interface that configures an objective past, biding its time in image libraries all over the planet. A journey through subjective and objective history, guided by four characters: The Witness, a survivor of a nazi concentration camp; The Researcher, tracking and analyzing traces of the past; The Archival Material, source and extension of historical memory; and The Narrator, creating and directing a discourse where history impregnates the present and is revised.
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