Film & Video Umbrella
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Film & Video Umbrella is Britain's premier agency for touring artists' film, video and
digital media to cinemas and galleries around the country, with a record of delivering innovative,
high-quality projects that stretches back over more than a decade.LINK to the DETOUR websiteLINK to the TELLTALE SIGNS website |
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DETOUR is part of Slipstream, a series of small-scale digital art works designed to appear as interventions on participating sites on the Internet. Between December 2000 and June 2001, Jake Tilson nested a series of files on the site of the music and multimedia label Real World. These files consisted of sounds recorded in twenty-five hotel rooms in different locations around the world. Accompanied by still images from the same locations. DETOUR echoed the world music ethos of the host site with an array of sonic material, which highlighted the spirit of local within the global. |  |
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TELL-TALE SIGNS is part of
the.year.dot which features six specially -
commissioned artists’ works inspired by a set
of random search results culled from the world
wide web and based on words in the Book of
Revelations. TELL-TALE SIGNS takes the text search results and re discovers them elsewhere in the world - as a series of shop fascias whose signage panels use phrases that occur in the found text There were approximately 127 individual words and 127 double words to work with. The double-word phrases use the original “Revelation” word and the “search result” word: an example is “deathLogin” The task was to find these words and phrases as names of retail businesses and to photograph the results. |
Creative Review magazine. Tilson made a cut-down version of the project for use on Creative Reviews’ first DVD – called Fun With Type. |
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Steven Bode Film & Video Umbrella 52, Bermondsey Street London SE1 3UD T 020 7407 7755 F 020 7407 7766 |
