DAVID WILLS PHONES IT IN - Negativland LIVE! in Seattle - Northwest Film Forum - August 4 2024

Went to see Negativland at Seattle arthouse cinema Northwest Film Forum. It was excellent. This video is a brief robZtv pastiche of Negativland founding member David Wills, aka The Weatherman, phoning it in from nearby West Seattle, where he now lives. His appearance capped the following program:
-Screening: • STAND BY FOR FAILURE /...
-AMA Question and Answer Session
-Negativland & SUE-C performance: "We Can Really Feel Like We're Here"
-David Wills Facetimes from home
Filmed with vintage Canon S200 PowerShot Digital Elph, same camera I have been using since 2003 to create robZtv pocket video memoir series: • robZtv episode 01 : Fe...
Backstory: www.zverina.co...
From nwfilmforum.org:
Legendary sound collage group Negativland and “real-time cinema” visual artist SUE-C collaborate to bring you their latest audio-visual performance about our minds, our realities, and the evolving forms of media and technology that orchestrate our perceptions as we head into our next election: WE CAN REALLY FEEL LIKE WE’RE HERE. Negativland performs with video designed and produced by SUE-C, who appears virtually.
About Negativland:
Since 1980, the multimedia collective known as Negativland have been creating records, CDs, video, fine art, books, radio and live performance using appropriated sounds, images, objects, and text. Mixing original materials and original music with things taken from corporately owned mass culture and the world around them, Negativland re-arrange these found bits and pieces to make them say and suggest things that they never intended to. In doing this kind of cultural archaeology and “culture jamming” (a term they coined way back in 1984), Negativland have been sued twice for copyright infringement. Their art and media interventions pose both serious and silly questions about the nature of sound, media, technology, control, ownership, propaganda, power, and perception in the United States of America. Their work is now referenced and taught in many college courses in the US, has been written about and cited in over 150 books and legal journals, and they sometimes lecture about their work in the USA and in Europe.
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