Immanence in the Pixel: Traditional Cultural Origins of Math and Technology
An evening of film video and web screenings curated by Laura U. Marks
Presented Saturday, May 11th at 8 pm

Atari 2600 Remixes
Tasman Richardson, Canada, 2000, video, 17:45

Richardson continues his explorations of images that would please the severest mullah, for there is no figure save the primitive computer games from which these works derive. Sound-driven editing cultivates synaesthesia, as we seem to hear the images and see the sounds; and also (unfortunately for the iconoclasts) anthropomorphism, as each color field seems to have a personality: perky, wistful, aggressive. The remixes liberate the gods in the pixels, the analog in the digital, the infinite in Atari hockey.

Tasman Richardson - Biography

Tasman Richardson is a video and sound artist based in Toronto. He writes, " Emphasis on editing, in my more recent work, is to create purposeful transitions. Formerly, my goal was to process my source in such a way as to communicate speed, sex and violence. That being accomplished, I have found another primitive universal in humanity and nature - transience. The abstract quality of these pieces is not intended to create ambiguous avoidance of issues, but rather to consider aspects of honest truths. Time. Space. Movement. Velocity. Melancholy. Bliss."