Richard Jochum Movies


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Offering

Interactive Video, Face Recognition, Computer, Webcam, Monitor.

New York 2011

Programming: Kevin Bleich.

Synopsis: The video installation presents a person holding out a chalice and offering a host. Connected to facial recognition software and a sensor, the hand reaches out to the audience as it passes by. Although interactive, it is impossible to receive; henceforth, the offering continues.

Human Waterfall / Elevation

Single Channel Video Installation

New York 2011

Music: Loscil, "Biced".

Synopsis: The 2 min video displays a waterfall; instead of water it shows people; instead of having them fall down, they go both up and down (in this version mostly up). The flow is decelerated and continuous; the video is looped; the soundscape by Loscil amplifies the floating movement. Having served as a conceptual starting point and catalyst for Immersive Surfaces, the Human Waterfall is conceived to be put on display on a frontal wall of a museum or gallery.

Immersive Surfaces / As Above So Below

Videomapping Project Collaboration incl. Simon Anaya, Farkas Fülöp, Richard Jochum, John Moreno, John Ensor Parker, and Ryan Uzilevsky. Curated by Leo Kuelbs.

New York 2011

External Link: Immersive Surfaces

Synopsis: Immersive Surfaces has been a public video mapping projection onto the Manhattan Bridge in Brooklyn during the Dumbo Arts Festival from September 23 - 25, 2011. The multi-part video installation made "crowd", i.e. the connection between individuals and the greater group a main topic, while also examining notions of projected depth and the meaning of surface.

Dust, Dirst, and Scratches

Screencast Movie, 42 min

New York 2011

External links Decelerator

Synopsis: The 42 min video shows the process of digitally retouching an image hereby removing, dust, dirt, and scratches. If longing for perfection is inherent to the arts - thus creating beautiful pictures at times - it's also a futile obsession.

Collaborative Silverware, Brooklyn, Performance/Documentary, 2010

Performance documentary, 2 min 54 sec

New York 2010

External links Invisible Dog

Synopsis: The documentary captures how 2 performers are having dinner together while feeding each other publicly with elongated silverware (3 feet).

Visual Culture Tomatoes

Screencast-animation, 1 min

New York 2010

Synopsis: We live in a world of images. Visual Culture Tomates is a screen cast animation created through Cooliris representing images of tomatoes in the age of image culture. Animated screencast by cooliris and google.

Twenty Angry Dogs - Group Barking

Video and Sound Installation for Gallery Bundo, South-Korea

59 sec, looped

New York 2010

External links Gallery Bundo

Twenty Angry Dogs

Video and Sound Installation for Ban Song Gallery, South-Korea

1-2 min videos, looped

New York 2009-2010

External links Gallery Bundo · Twenty Angry Dogs draft

I Can’t Believe It’s Not Art

Video performance, 1 min 26 sec

New York 2009

Synopsis: I can't believe it's not art is a short video in which a performer is picking petals from a daisy referencing to the old childhood game: She loves me, she loves me not. By expanding the popular diversion into the field of the arts, the video adds humor to an often dreadfully serious debate about whether a certain object, image or artifact is art or not. The outcome is based on an understanding of art as a process rather than a product, a social construction rather than an isolated entity by itself.