Exhibition 17.12.2007 - 13.01.2008
1.3, City Art Museum, Ljubljana, Slovenia (curated by Dietmar Offenhuber)

Festival 14.12.2007 - 16.12.2007
Videomedeja, Museum of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia

17.11.2007 - 14.12.2007, DCR, The Hague, Netherlands

A Matter Of Fact - an exhibition curated by Eelco van der Lingen and David Muth.

Private View: Saturday 17 Nov, 5pm, with a performance by Julien Clauss
Gallery Opening Times: Thursday - Saturday, 1-6pm

Participating Artists:

Frank Halmans, Tijmen Hauer, Annja Krautgasser, Eelco van der Lingen, Josh Müller, David Muth, Lynn Pook, Oscar Stegehuis and Edd Vossen.

Kindly supported by Stroom, Heden, and the Gemeente Den Haag.

David Muth (video) | GCTTCATT (music)

Video, October 2007

The video piece “You Are The Sony Of My Life” is an amalgam of concise visual language tightly fused with the whimsical, flickering soundtrack by GCTTCATT.

The piece starts with an image of a white plane, which subsequently becomes perforated with bursts of oblique linear elements. As the soundtrack moves on, these acoustically driven perforations merge into larger geometric shapes. A fine grid of interwoven horizontal and vertical stripes is revealed progressively over time.

In David Muth’s piece it seems to be the soundtrack that sculpts the image - by adding and removing visual material, filling certain image regions or dissecting the visual plane. In return, the film acts as a visual amplifier for the audio. “You Are the Sony of My Life” is an ‘Absolute Film’ in more than one sense: it is not only entirely abstract, but also rejects the illusionist principles of animation. There is no hint of a visual space populated by animated shapes. Constrained by the regime of the scan line, the visual organization of the piece remains entirely rhythmic.

Text by Dietmar Offenhuber.

High Resolution Stills 01 // 02 // 03 // 04

21.10.2007 Sun 3pm

I will give a talk at the Playgrounds Audiovisual Arts Festival in Tilburg, Holland. The program of the festival also includes screenings of the video pieces You Are The Sony Of My Life, “Lamp Shade”, “On A Long Thin Wire” and 371 Adv3.