{"id":1052,"date":"2006-02-01T10:11:29","date_gmt":"2006-02-01T08:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/01\/scenes-of-provincial-life\/"},"modified":"2006-02-06T17:12:37","modified_gmt":"2006-02-06T15:12:37","slug":"scenes-of-provincial-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/01\/scenes-of-provincial-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Scenes of Provincial Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Michael Szpakowski<\/a>, the brilliant artist, writer and personality behind alot of the JoyWar backing<\/a> a couple of years ago (and a big supporter of Steve Kurtz) – as well as one of the core producers of DVblog<\/a> – has started Scenes of Provincial Life<\/a>, a new vlog of his own provocative QuickTime shorts:<\/p>\n

A couple of years ago, I started making tiny QuickTime movies, as a kind of moving image dream diary. They quickly became a major focus of my work & I have made two or three at least every month since…<\/p>\n

One of the things that excite me about the digital is that it makes possible a new sort of collaboration with both other artists and with non-professionals. Digitization makes the simple juxtaposition of different kinds of work straightforward, or enables a kind of framing process that, done sympathetically, enriches the work of both parties.<\/p>\n

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(Read more<\/a> from the artist.) The videos, so far, range from Kentridge-like, sorrowful beauty, to quirky and experimental fluxus framing. Szpakowski’s mastery of re-mixing pop and historical culture\/imagery feels like techno-poietic counsel for an ever-opening future-present, a sad co-celebration of the banal, and the possible. I want to collect them all…. Visit Scenes of Provincial Life<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

still from Kingfisher 0.9MB 10 sec loop Michael Szpakowski, the brilliant artist, writer and personality behind alot of the JoyWar backing a couple of years ago (and a big supporter of Steve Kurtz) – as well as one of the core producers of DVblog – has started Scenes of Provincial Life, a new vlog of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,3,11,9,8,19,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-tech","category-poetry","category-pop-culture","category-re-blog-tidbits","category-stimulus","category-technology","category-uncategorical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-gY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1236,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/24\/gilbertos-beer\/","url_meta":{"origin":1052,"position":0},"title":"Gilberto’s Beer (updated with hi-res and revver versions below)","author":"nathaniel","date":"24 June 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"So I took footage from Justin Hall and Rihaad Desai at the iCommons iSummit in Rio, of musician \/ Minister of Culture GIlberto Gil's speech and beer drinking, and made a li'l drum beat-ish, singy like video and audio track. 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