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selected videos of Darrin Martin |
Other Turbans
The artist as post-operative subject discovers a sound art piece by Max Neuhaus in Times Square while being mistaken for a terrorist. A field of high-tension wires completes the contemplative excursions needed to help him adjust to his new implant that will eventually help him hear. The third piece in a trilogy of single-channel works on hearing loss. |

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Monograph in Stereo
Monograph in Stereo employs documentary and experimental strategies to convey a struggle with congenital and operational hearing loss and tinnitus, a continual ringing in the ear; a phantom auditory perception. The work also stems from research upon the interdependency of the senses with an emphasis on the balance ascertained from binaural hearing and stereoscopic vision and the imbalance caused by their uneven degradation. Images move amongst poetic reverberations of landscapes, interiors and audiological exam rooms. The second video in a trilogy of single-channel works on hearing loss. |
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White noise, tones and words are sometimes discerned in an audiological exam through the confusion of a dead ear and tinnitus, a constant ringing in the head. The sound is a mix of audio samples from the test and frequency oscillators used to process the images. The first single-channel video in a trilogy on hearing loss.
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Every (Text, Image, Sound, Movie) on my cell phone
A collection of materials shot, sent, and received expunged from a cell phone becomes a reflection on the everyday as it is experienced through the lens of this seemingly indispensable technology.
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Free to Be You and Me
Four of the original children on the merry-go-round in the opening sequence of Marlo Thomas’s star-studded television special of the same name rephrase the catchy opening theme song. An internet mogul, an independent filmmaker, a temp computer specialist, and an orthodontist reiterate the songs nostalgic promise of freedom couched within a technologically mediated environment.
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The Knocking
A man eats dinner and plays solitaire as images of Eastern Europe revolve around him to the sounds of an audio effects record. Footage shot throughout Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic at the end of the twentieth century echo with ghosts of the past as old and new architectures are simultaneously (re)constructed. The “master narrator” counts the illusion of order as the main character slips in and out of drag.
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Aviator
Two men play the balancing act of airplane in their underwear as they soar through images of newsreel footage “masculating” the history of flight. The rhythm of their actions unfolds a relationship charted by memory and suspension.
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