The Videos of Artists presents In Their Own Words, a collection of video documentaries in which artists present their work, talk about interests and goals, and reveal details of their process. Each 2 to 4 minute video provides a glimpse into a particular exploration of photo-related media. Select an artist’s page to see his or her video(s) and for additional information about the artist or artwork.
Browse by artist’s name or search by topics (Editing, Landscape, Light & Shadow, Portraiture, Presentation, Reproduction, Series & Sequence, and Text, and Vision).
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Andrew Neumann
Hybrid Photography Andrew Neumann juxtaposes detailed movies of a scene within large still photographs of identical scenes to play with…
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Owen Mundy
You Never Close Your Eyes Anymore Former U.S. Naval photographer Owen Mundy draws on his experiences with surveillance film to…
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Haley Morris-Cafiero
Shape to Fit In this series of daguerreotypes, Haley Morris-Cafiero shows her struggle to lose weight to fit into a…
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Cristobal Mendoza
Taking a Query=”line” for a Walk In this video, Cristobal Mendoza describes the process of rendering Flickr.com images tagged with…
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Antoine L’Heureux
S.5#18S.5#31 (23h46m11sec, 15th July 2009, Como, Italy & 02h20m24sec, 25th Oclober 2009, London, UK) Antoine L’Heureux works with multiple images…
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Arcanum Research Documentarian; C. Thomas Lewis
Arcanum Research: Behind the Scenes In the glow of dusk, artist C. Thomas Lewis assumes the role of documentarian to…
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Alex M. Lee
Machinic Vision, Selected Works: 2008-2010 Alex M. Lee emancipates the image from real-world capture by rendering digital images exclusively with…
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Nikki Johnson
David, Amputation Fetishist Rebecca Cummins explores the sculptural, experiential and sometimes humorous possibilities of light and natural phenomena, often referencing…
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Jenny Hyde
Potential Problems New media artist Jenny Hyde describes how she uses a scanner to create a collection of bodily marks,…
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Gerald Hushlak
BreederArt: Reclaiming Wastelands Gerald Hushlak talks about the evolutionary computer processes that he uses to create fictional landscapes from digital…
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Anna Helgeson
The Lady Vanishes Anna Helgeson uses a photo-copier to simulate our failure to recognize historic women who contributed to male…
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Scott F. Hall
Anadigicapping: Hybrid Analog/Digital Photography Scott F. Hall digitally documents images as they pass through the viewfinder optics path of analog…
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Varvara Guljajeva
Augmented Photography Varvara Guljajeva describes the process of creating photographs that use a sensor to respond to the viewer’s presence.…
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Martina Geccelli
A Still Life Martina Geccelli talks about her fascination with books as objects and her efforts to look at them…
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Ellen Garvens
Prosthesis Ellen Garvens shows her photographs of found objects, prototypes for human prosthesis, and recorded stories for an online book.…
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Michael Filimowicz, Andres Wanner & Melanie Cassidy
Cursor Caressor Eraser documentation Collaborators in this project describe how the Cursor Caressor Eraser, an Internet artwork, transforms the computer touchscreen tablet/mouse…
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Jan Dunning
Jan Dunning: Precarious Rooms (2008 – 2010) Photographer Nikki Johnson chooses subjects for portraiture based on her regard for subcultures…
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Robert Ladislas Derr
In Play Robert Ladislas Derr describes his ongoing video and photographic project in which he plays ping-pong with artists and…
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Barbara DeGenevieve
The Panhandler Project This video shows brief excerpts with voice-over description of The Panhandler Project, Barbara DeGenevieve’s collaboration with five panhandlers…
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Rebecca Cummins
Rebecca Cummins: Another Light Rebecca Cummins explores the sculptural, experiential and sometimes humorous possibilities of light and natural phenomena, often…
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Roger Colombik
Public Interventions in the Post-Soviet World In these two projects, Roger Colombik examines loss of tradition in Romanian village life…
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Ian Clothier
Interrogating the Invisible For the featured project, Ian Clothier surveyed participants about their cultural identity via a project website. Responses…
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Shannon Lee Castleman
Jurong West Street 81 Shannon Lee Castleman introduced residents in opposing apartment buildings by inviting them to film one another.…
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Julie Cassels
‘Travelling Light’: Reconstructing Nellie Bly’s Travelling Bag Julie Cassels talks about her work exhibited in Travelling Light. In this piece, Cassels…
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Ingrid Berthon-Moine
Red is the Colour – Video Presentation Ingrid Berthon-Moine describes some of the varying cultural associations with menstrual blood, which…