title:

masks
director:

marc lafia
country:
 usa    
genre:
 web-movie
year:
2003
artwork:
nanomasks
homepage:
www.metabolichouse.com
statement:

The film is one of a number of films I've been
making using algorithms. The images are taken from videos of performances of
Vito Acconci and Marina Abramovic. Their works dealt with endurance and
physical duration. Algorithmic films present an entirely new take on
durations as computation.
cv. etc. Marc Lafia
Marc Lafia works with film, computation and the network, for installation of single and multi-channel video and photography of varying scale. He is interested in the image situated and configured as system and event in computation and algorithmic procedures. His work is a sensual and philosophic consideration of representational systems and how these translate to our understanding of being, place and notions of time. He has exhibited at Rotterdam, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, Sydney, The Walker Art Center, SF MoMA, ZKM, Le Centre Georges Pompidou and other
international museums and festivals. He has taught at Stanford University, the San Francisco Art Institute, and Pasadena Art Center College of Design. A 4 screen computational video installation, Sing to Me and Tell Me Your
Story¹ is currently being exhibited at the OK Centrum in Linz, Austria and Variable Montage, a 3 screen video installation on exhibit in Future
Cinema' at ZKM.