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Compilation: Architecture of Doom, Mother May I Sleep with Danger? Apollo Shrapnel : Part 1, 2, 3, 4, Restless < Wrath, Matt:15: 9

Tasman Richardson

2001, 27:17 minutes, colour

TAPECODE 575.17

Architecture of Doom 2001, 1:40
You're not buying a product you're buying a lifestyle. Uniformity, cross-product compatibility, and fascism.

Mother May I Sleep with Danger? 2001, 1:03
raging deathmetal satire of the teen death media obsession

Apollo Shrapnel: Part 1 2001, 4:33
Order, rhythm and uniformity. The lightning bolt, the chariot of fire.

Apollo Shrapnel: Part 2 2001, 4:33
The march, the pulse, splinters

Apollo Shrapnel: Part 3
2001, 5:01
atomic illustration of the apollonian nature.

Apollo Shrapnel: Part 4 2001, 3:14 solar animation using individually photographed solar images appropriated from world wide archives and recombined with sythesized foley sound to illustrate the meditative intellect of Apollo.

Restless < Wrath 2000, 5:06
Further investigations into the abstract language of aesthetics, progressive layers of textured violence and shrill tone pass between discordance and harmony. The ringlets are multiplied as time elapses, benchmarking evolutionary mutations in signal until the tones are too numerous to separate and eventually silence themselves in soft pink noise.

Matt : 15 : 9 2000, 5min 10sec
If representations can be icons, if images can be idols, then in some instances the image is converted to the word. Text in the form of calligraphy is a substitution for idolatry in Islamic cultures, however in this instance the pope himself is an idol. This canonized character is first reduced to humanness by revealing imperfection in a momentary lapse of self control (picking the nose and eating it). The form is then converted piece by piece, frame by frame into the ascii character set. In the infantile stages of internet growth, the ascii character set was favoured by lo-fi internet artists for its fixed width and clarity which made it a useful tool in creating images that could be transmitted over slow connection rates. Thus making it the calligraphy of our modern age.

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