"One of my fondest memories as an art student is sitting alone in a small library booth with just a turntable and large headphones listening to John Cage and David Tudor’s sound collaboration piece Indeterminacy (1959). In-Between Theories interview with Phyllis Baldino, podcast link above, Phyllis Baldino Interviewtranscript here. |
ABOUT PHYLLIS BALDINO
Phyllis Baldino has been working with the moving image since 1993. Having received a BFA in sculpture, her work was very process-orientated. While living in Los Angeles in the early 1990s, as fate would have it, she was given a Sony Handycam 8mm video camera as a gift. As soon as she starting filming, "that was it: the device was like an extension of my hand. Now that my hand was the camera, shooting the process became the piece." She began to make videos that dealt with the function, physicality, and transformation of every day objects. Phyllis's work is conceptually-based and often sparked by scientific information or philosophical ideas. The Gray Area Series (1993-1994) is a response to Fuzzy Logic, something being “what it is” and “what it is not” simultaneously; in the Unknown Series (excerpts) (1994-1996), unknown objects are altered by unknown personas; Nano-cadabra (1998) presents manual abstractions sprouting from nanotechnology; Baldino-Neutrino (2003) is a response to the neutrino experiments from CERN to Gran Sasso Lab in Italy; Out of Focus Everything Series (2006-2010), is a multi-dimensional moving images piece about the Theory of Everything; in TraitFee (2012), personal information appears on your body if you do not pay your TraitFee. Her recent work includes Nothing from the Future (2013-2016) processes physicist Lee Smolin's experiments putting Time back into the equation of universal space. Another recent work, Now is Here (2017) is a diversion from physics, and instead studies body movements and the kinesthetics of the current political moment. Phyllis's website is at https://phyllisbaldino.com/ |
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