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Transit Gloria

Honeywell at Noon

Thesis abstract: Push to Play is a video installation which explores the changing attitudes toward labor and work. I describe the techniques and style in Push to Play as "post-verite," post-truth, to acknowledge the fact that reality or truth is always constructed and reconstructed in a documentary or nonfiction work. Three forms of discourse are used: textual, visual, and fictional. Although Push to Play examines working (and living) conditions is the U.S.-owned factories off-shore and local, its main concern is the change m attitude towards labor which allows the continued eros10n of workers' civil, labor and human rights. For among the pantheon of causes--environment, homelessness, animal rights, self-determination, religious and political rights abuses--the issue of labor is lost. // My background includes working as a timelapse cinematographer documenting urban behavior for engineers, planners, and social scientists. Moving into video, I worked for the cable industry teaching video to the public as a community access coordinator. This experience has left me a media activist. In my off hours, I began experimenting with video. With a strong background in philosophy, painting, and film, I found video to be liberating. There wasn't the usual aesthetic baggage I was familiar with from art history. I was able to invent and experiment; I was able to concentrate on content. I still feel strongly that the importance of video is in its ability to be content-driven, that given the cost of film and the limited exposure of painting, video has the possibility of saying more for less, and can reach more people. However, my experience as public access coordinator left me wary as to what passes effectively as alternative or "political," especially where social issues are concerned. In terms of aesthetics and production, I shoot any video format I have access to or can afford at the time. I have always used Super-8 film within the videos I make. If not Super-8, then I include slides or negatives. Push to Play is the first video project to include found 16mm film footage. These techniques create an unusual aesthetic in contrast with the otherwise cold and electronic look of video.

1996

1996

creation

Vicki Gensen

female

Written thesis: https://scholar.colorado.edu/concern/graduate_thesis_or_dissertations/r494vm25d

MFA 1996, Art and Art History

Integrated Arts (IMAP) student, Art and Art History, CU Boulder

IMAP: Interdisciplinary Media Arts Practices

labor

reality

factories (structures)

Mexico (nation)

circuit boards

technology

capitalism

video art

video

sculptures and installations

University of Colorado Art Gallery

exhibition

Boulder, Colorado

© Vicki Gensen

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