Marshall Rendina
Video Composition (2007)
This first video composition was part of a number of new media projects from when I was a student at Berklee College of Music. At the time I had been immersed in popular music.
The video might represent a shift to a more democratized form of media in which anybody who produces a work of media can do so for free. Anyone can now appropriate any content anonymously without the author’s permission, though my view is that if this is going to happen people should embrace works that are created for free. It changes the concept of the mass media celebrity. It denounces the need for a television station, or recording studio. It denounces the pornography industry, but not other forms of sexual expression. It encourages people to voice their opposition to the lies about the violence overseas.
The video uses program I had written to select and combine by various methods two pieces of art from a series I had made a year earlier of my early experimentation in abstract expressionism. The flickering effect is a randomized algorithm that jumps to extreme hues. I had attempted to have it screened at a performance at an Andy Warhol show and another gallery featuring new media art. It was curated by the Camera Club of New York and screened at motor city bar in May 2010.