thank you davix for the wonderful ZOOM+PAN

“BFA CAPSTONE EXHIBITION 2009″
MONDAY, MAY 4 TO FRIDAY, MAY 8
EISENTRAGER-HOWARD GALLERY
RICHARDS HALL
STADIUM DRIVE & T STREET
LINCOLN, NE

GALLERY HOURS: MONDAY-FRIDAY 12-4PM
RECEPTION: FRIDAY, MAY 8, 5-7PM

BIND

a video installation by edward sharp

SPATIVM GALLERY

IN THE PARISH PROJECT

FIRST FRIDAY OF MAY

2ND FLOOR 2 14TH 7 O STREET

LINCOLN, NE

also come to a reading/sighting of myself and more.

Innocent Images prosecutions increased by more than 50 percent over the last two years. We’re making progress. Just like we’re hunting the terrorists down one at a time, we’re hunting these predators down one at a time, too. Based on the progress, I’m pleased to announce that we will expand this program and significantly increase the funding in the next fiscal year. We will also seek to almost double funding for the Internet crimes against children task forces, from $6.5 million in fiscal year 2002 to $12.5 million in fiscal 2003. These task forces help state and local authorities enforce laws against child pornography and exploitation.

Since 1998, the task forces have helped train more than 1,500 prosecutors, and 1,900 investigators. They’ve served 700 search warrants and 1,400 subpoenas. The task forces have provided direct, investigative assistance in more than 3,000 cases. They’ve arrested more than 1,400 suspects. These task forces are a great success. They’re a great success because we’ve got a lot of good people working on these projects, a lot of dedicated Americans whose stomachs turn when they realize what’s happening to our children, great Americans who decided to do something about it.

morality police governed by assetsmotherfuckers
loved-locked his shit up.
[http://maxhardcoretv.com/FreeMaxHardcore.htm]
[whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/10/20021023-8.html]
[http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/jun/05/051846/jurors-obscenity-trial-have-stalled-deciding-verdi/]

saying get down with a plastic gun.
[google.com/search?q=ryan+labenz]
[wowt.com/news/headlines/33791709.html]

saying get down with a plastic gun.
[google.com/search?q=how+to+get+famous]

http://edwardsharp.net/project/dichomety/

dichomety(), 2008
projected video, timed elements installation
dismantled
shown at unl open studio night, november 14th, 2008

using  31 dichotomies from an essay called The Cyborg Manifesto by Donna Haraway

a google image query gets made each time a new word is displayed

the 20 or so results are shuffled and then displayed

a minimum of five computers need to be running and processing data (with countless in between to handle the traffic moving hundreds of miles) to complete this: your own, my webserver, google, and two webservers that host the dichomety-queried image.

i built it using php/javascript, see the code.

4′x’4 base, 4′x8′ light structure
concrete, steel, fluorescent lights, wax, tar, plaster
collection of artist

one arm & one remains of an arm
40″x60″x2″
oil, plaster, jb weld
collection of artist

conspicuous_consumption
40″x60″x2″
oil, plaster, wood glue, two part expanding foam
collection of artist
shown at unl 22nd undergraduate studio art competition, Eisentrager Howard Gallery, Lincoln NE

leggs
48″x48″x6″ stands 72″
oil, wax, wood, steel, bronze
collection of artist
shown at “extra raw” may 02, 2008.

if(sculpture.final){

print(”this video was played on a closed wi-fi network located in richard’s hall on the unl campus during a final critique for sculpture 411.”);

}

elseif(nin.ghosts.film.festival){

print(”begin playing your favourite nin audio mp3″);

print(”this was submitted for the nin ghosts film festival“);

}

to a place that is{
adjunct, free, st udder
}

then_run;

function(wait){
everythingisinits.rightplace
}

“It is my conviction that culture works very effectively to make invisible and even “impossible” the actual affiliations that exist between the world of ideas and scholarship, on the one hand, and world of brute force politics, corporate and state power, and military force, on the other. The cult of expertise and professionalism, for example, has so restricted our scope of vision that a positive (as opposed to an implicit or passive) doctrine of noninterference among fields has set in. This doctrine has it that the general public is best left ignorant, and the most crucial policy questions affecting human existence are best left to “experts,” specialists who talk about their specialty only, and- to use the word first given wide social approbation by Walter Lippmamn [sic, see walter lippmann] in Public Opinion and The Phantom Public-”insiders,” people (usually men) who are endowed with the special privilege of knowing how things really work and, more important, of being close to power.”

the first phase was know as walke and lasted for a few hours during a visual arts in practice open house at unl (read more in walke). this project was then reborn as an installation in richard’s hall at unl for an advanced sculpture class. unlike the first phase- walke now included a stack of three non-working televisions that had been filled with two part expanding foam. tint of the foam in each television corresponded with an additive primary color (red, green, blue). on the other side of the room there was a functional television that played a fuzzy clip reel of selected short videos. these selected videos ranged from funny/stupid to grotesque/pornographic. the idea was to capture some essence of internet video- which doesn’t carry the burden of fcc broadcast regulation/censorship. the slightly larger than life size (20′x8′ screen size) video of nick walking back and fourth from looking at the stack of televisions, to looking at the video clip reel, was timed in such a way that a light would come on above to illuminate the stack of televisions when nick went over to look at them and turn off when he left. the video clip reel on the other side would similarly turn on when he walked over to stand in front and watch and turn off when he left. this was on a loop so nick constantly shifted from one side to the other. he would spend anywhere from 2-8 minutes staring at either the stack of televisions or the clip reel.

the final phase of walke is everlasting life on the web(ifitis.org)- void of any physical presence. the same video footage of nick and the clip reel is used. a picture of the stack of televisions is used in place of the real, physical televisions. video on the web is not any sort of simple or standardized thing. it can range wildly from propriety based format to format (flash, windows movie, quicktime). there currently no commonly accepted standards on how to play video on the internet. to make walke viewable on as many platforms as possible i decided to use one of the most widely understood formats- javascript. many devices have browsers that support javascript to some degree. i then exported all the frames as jpeg images (roughly 10,000) from my two videos, wrote some js to refresh the image every x amount of time to produce an animation of the original video. i’ve included my source code and some comments on it after the link for those that are interested.


//included on walke.web.animate- an esnet_ project
//created by edward sharp
//web: edwardsharp.net
//buttons
function goLite(FRM,BTN)
{
window.document.forms[FRM].elements[BTN].style.backgroundColor = “#555555″;
window.document.forms[FRM].elements[BTN].style.borderColor = “#999999″;
}

/*
switch(index) {
case 174:
document.getElementById(”imggreel”).src = “reelImg/seq” + reelindex.toString().padLeft(”0″, 4) + “.gif”;
document.getElementById(”imggreel”).title = reelindex;
reelindex++;
window.alert(”case 174 move left”);
break;
case 1086:
window.alert(”case 1086 move right”);
break;
case 1987:
window.alert(”case 1987 move left”);
break;
case 3168:
window.alert(”case 3168 move right”);
break;
case 4030:
window.alert(”case 4030 move left”);
break;
case 5774:
window.alert(”case 5774 move right”);
break;
case 7711:
window.alert(”case 7711 move left”);
break;
case 9008:
window.alert(”case 9008 move right final”);
}*/
}
else {clearInterval(timer);}
}
//end image reel
//tv magic
var tvindex=0;
function nextTv() {
switch(index) {
case 0:
document.getElementById(”imggtv”).src = “tvImg/” + index + “.jpg”;
var tvindex=1;
break;
case 1:
document.getElementById(”imggtv”).src = “tvImg/” + index + “.jpg”;
var tvindex=2;
break;
case 2:
document.getElementById(”imggtv”).src = “tvImg/” + index + “.jpg”;
var tvindex=3;
break;
case 3:
document.getElementById(”imggtv”).src = “tvImg/” + index + “.jpg”;
var tvindex=0;
break;
}}
//code to make image names work
String.prototype.padLeft = function(char, count) {
var val = new String(this);
char = char.toString().substr(0, 1);
while (val.length < count) {
val = char + val;
}
return val;
}