The Walking Man (loop excerpt)
2009, 13 min. silent loop
A silent and looped version of the previous online (see below). Made for projection at the North Bank Artists' Gallery.
217 Views of the Tokaido Line
2010, 6 min. video loop with hypertext
The great Japanese travel artists - Basho, Hiroshige, Soseki - are used as models for a digital travel practice. 217 video and text fragments of a trip to Japan evoke the inner experience of contemporary travel, emphasizing the ephemeral jolts rather than smoothed-over personal anecdote.
selected work
A silent and looped version of the previous online (see below). Made for projection at the North Bank Artists' Gallery.
The Walking Man
2008, series of 9 one-minute videos
"Obstacles become playgrounds, playgrounds obstacles." A study of the pedestrian's everyday encounters with the city.
Steam, Light, Grid
2008, 3 min. layered collage
Urban drift collage. Audio from remixed tracks of Eno and Byrne's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.
The Messenger
2007, 10 sec. loop
From a nine-part series exploring semi-static or ambient cinema: Time Quilts
Westward
2007, 10 sec. loop
From a nine-part series exploring semi-static or ambient cinema: Time Quilts
A Flea Market Album
2007, series of four three-minute videos
I showed the album to some friends and asked them to tell me what they see.
Haystack Rock
2006, single channel 1 min. video
A walk on the Oregon coast, the vast scales of time.
Twelve Stations
2003, interactive quicktime
I recorded the public enactment of a passion play in a Dominician neighborhood in the Bronx (New York City).
Commute Quad
2001, interactive quicktime, generative video
Four-paneled interactive version of commute.
Commute
2001, eight one-minute videos
The linear and cylical experience of the urban commuter lends itself to the database structure.
All This
2000, three separate 1 min. videos
My first video on the web. The linear and the cyclical in life processes was the foundation for thinking about narrative and the database.
blogs
Taylor Street Studio
Showcase for mini-documentary work and social media publishing services. Storytelling for the visual, networked and geographic web. RSS
Solublefish.tv
A text and moving image sketchpad focused on a poetics of net cinema. RSS
The
Father Divine Project
An ongoing database documentary about a communitarian and interracial
religious group. RSS
teaching
Narrative Walks
Designed and authored walks using video, audio, GPS devices and mapping tools.
Multimedia Authoring
Intro to web design using XHTML & CSS.
about
artist statement
I explore web cinema in all its expressive possibilities - database narrative, spatial montage, looping, serial publishing, locative storytelling. If an idea or story can be generated from a single sequence of images, what might be generated with multiple, linked sequences in a database? How does a juxtaposition of micro-narratives change our sense of self and our experience of the world? Most of my material is captured from daily life, but it is in post-production that I try to push beyond continuity to open up a temporal and spatial sense that is multiple, generative and rich in potential meaning.
bio
Will Luers is a media artist, writer and educator living in Portland, Oregon. His most recent work was selected for the Media Arts Show at the 2008 ELO Conference: Visionary Landscapes. He has taught film and media studies at Parson's School of Design, Hunter College, Portland State University, Pacific University and in 2008 completed an artist-in-residency at the Digital, Technology and Culture program at Washington State University Vancouver. He won the 2005 Nantucket Film Festival and Tony Cox Award for Best Screenplay. He has over twenty years of experience writing, shooting, editing and teaching about the moving image. An early adopter of social media, he was named a pioneer in videoblogging in the Forbes.com Top Technology Trends (2004) and in The New York Times (2006).