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Natasha Spencer
Chicago, IL
 Since receiving her MFA from the Time Arts Department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Natasha's work has screened in film, video and new media venues across the country and abroad. Her audio piece, "The House She Flew In On", is included in the compilation CD, "Extracted Celluloid", produced by Illegal Art, Negativland, and RtMark, and has aired on the John Peel's Show, Radio 1, BBC, London. She recently completed a residency at the Wexner Center for the Arts Video Lab where she produced "The House She Flew In On : The Video" and "Somewhere". Natasha is represented by ZG Gallery in Chicago.
| AMODA Events |
Digital Showcase 23: Sep 16th, 2003
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Somewhere video
When a person or object is collectively given a disproportionate amount of attention, the status of that person or thing is transformed into that of an "icon". What happens to our experience of an icon when it is situated in the format of continuous repetition? How is our perception of the original affected by the passage of time?
In "Somewhere" Judy Garland's "Over the Rainbow" is introduced to a contemporary version of the round. Twenty-four durations of the song are overlapped, one on the top of the other. Each duration is stretched by 1/32 of the total running lenght consecutively. The first layer to begin is the last to end. The result is a swelling of both sound and image that resonates beyond the boundaries of the original format altering both context and meaning. |
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Web site: http://www.zggallery.com
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