Strea

Stream is a work that explores the well known analogy of water flow and the flow of data on the internet. The structure and movement in the browser window becomes a rigid framework that contains and shifts an array of found images and video of water. Waterfalls, torrents, rivers, creeks and streams of data flow down the screen. An interplay of fluidity and rigidness.

Using rare photos and period footage, as well as interviews with the trains' passengers and workers, this documentary tracks the rise and decline of the American streamliner trains of the 1930s and '40s, which captured the public's imagination.

In the man-made waterways of rice paddies, the water in nature must follow artificial rules. In that way, nature is made abstract, giving rise to a new form of beauty distinct from the natural state. This video is composed of the lines that are formed at the points where the surface of the flowing water comes in contact with the walls of those waterways. I have put moving images of ten different lines, each taken from a different area, in a row on the screen. By arranging them in this way we can compare the color, shape, sound, texture and speed of adjacent lines. This composite video image communicates both the diversity of expression and liveliness of the water as it follows the man-made course.

In some ways Lost in Linear Valley is a tech-demo gone wonderfully wrong. JJ Stratford’s formal exploration of the LZX Video Synthesizer and the Fairlight Computer Video Instrument (CVI) resulted in a suite of 10 short experimental videos questioning obsolescence and early video aesthetics. At first glance, one could mistakenly take this work to be a study of dead-media fetishism. However, one watches this suite unfold into a delicate investigation of the limits of technology, and the potential those limits enable. Through the use of preset wipes and crude RGB color palettes, Stratford uncovers hidden potential in what otherwise would be considered a long-outmoded device for creative expression. In doing so, the typical subversive gesture of using obsolete technology that occurs within contemporary art is supplanted by an earnest exploration into a crucial link between early video aesthetics and current technologically inflected imagery.

Great to enjoy all year long. It's a beautiful mountain stream for your television. Watch the water as it flows over the rocks. See insects as they buzz by or watch a leaf or two fall from a tree. A great relaxing backdrop to play all the time. Designed to be a ambient display - this edition does not change or rotate to different scenes.

Depiction of "Clearstream affair", a first-class political scandal in France in the run-up to the 2007 presidential election.

Streamliners! The look captured the imagination of the nation. The name represented luxury, glamour, and mobility. Streamliners epitomized a new world of modern living, symbolizing style and technical evolution in the ongoing fulfillment of the American Dream.

In 2005 Dutch guitarist/composer/producer/Ayreon mainman, Arjen A. Lucassen released the debut album of his new band Stream Of Passion. The album, Embrace The Strom, was way more modern than his Rock Operas and had a more gothic metal approach. The album went into the Dutch charts and Stream Of Passion toured Europe in early 2006. The band performed seven of their own songs plus a fine collection of Arjen Lucassen´s Ayreon classics, like Computer Eyes, Valley of the Queens, The Castle Hall, a collection of Human Equation songs and many others. For the Ayreon material the band were supported by Damian Wilson, who originally appeared on many of the Ayreon albums. The DVD was recorded in Rijssen, Holland on the 17th February 2006 and contains a bonus video clip, making of documentary, behind the scenes footage, a photo gallery and tour diary.

"Not much of a glimmer of hope. No happy ending to follow. The river flows on."

The meanderings of a mountain stream are followed for a few miles. Recorded on 8mm Kodachrome and "cluster" edited to create a highly formal, fugal experience.

The spiral - like structure and unbroken momentum of the film/musical composition are somewhat suggestive to the artists of intersecting streams (or 'ribbons') of time. The concept is not simply the familiar (although perhaps illusory) forward, linear 'march' of clock time, but rather a nexus in which backwards time (e.g. , dreams, recollections together of segments of time are equally prominent. The visuals are animations and manipulations of hand-painted 35mm motion picture film, small objects, copier art, and liquid mixtures that are extensively interwoven and layered in digital post production. The principal sound sources of the music are generic samples (digitized recordings of instrumental and vocal tones and of environmental sounds such as ice cubes and ping pong balls). However, in re-synthesis the spectral structures (tones colors) of these sounds often have benne retooled and their attack and decay articulations have been altered.

Kyle, a college dropout, risks it all to make it big as a Viewr videogame streamer.

A lost Screen Songs cartoon.

This isn't real!

Flowing lights and colours are the focus of this abstract film shot with super-8 through a close-up lens. Helliwell`s homemade electronics provide the rhythmic soundtrack.

Narrated by Bill Slater, this short black & white educational film is about sporting and outdoor activities on the majestic Hudson River in New York State.

Silent film based on the pamphlet “Philip Maynard” by James K. Shields.

A BAFTA award winning documentary depicting the opening of the North Sea Forties oil field by HM Queen Elizabeth II.

Streamside Day, explores the formative role of ideological and semiotic systems in establishing social rituals and traditions. Huyghe's exhibition includes five murals, concealed behind five supplementary walls, which are revealed when the walls begin to slowly move through the gallery to configure a pavilion in which a short fiction film is projected. When the film ends, the walls retract to their original positions along the perimeter of the space, restoring the gallery to its pristine condition. After opening with scenes from an Edenic landscape, Huyghe's film traces the formation of a burgeoning community hypothetically located in the Hudson Valley. The first of two sections limns a mythic kernel that is then instantiated in scenes from a typical inaugural celebration devised to forge communal identity.