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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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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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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Anna G. Norton
About Light and Sound Here, Anna G. Norton describes her video piece Light and Sound, a compilation of 700 still 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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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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Artie Vierkant
Photographic Work In works such as the one imaged (a histogram crafted of styrofoam), Artie Vierkant represents visual imagery according…
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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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Chris Twomey
ASTRAL FLUFF: Carnal Bodies in Celestial Orbit Chris Twomey describes her installation of cloudlike material and photographs in which she…
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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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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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Fred Skupenski
TRACKS In TRACKS, Fred Skupenski creates simultaneous documents: of debris found along a railroad track, and, through his careful arrangement and…
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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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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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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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Ingrid Berthon-Moine
Red is the Colour – Video Presentation Ingrid Berthon-Moine describes some of the varying cultural associations with menstrual blood, which…
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J. Thomas Pallas
Installation of “Madam C.J. Walker” at Indianapolis Art Center Video courtesy of the Indianapolis Art Center In this work, J.…
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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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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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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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Kate Pollard
Passing In this series, Kate Pollard used her camera as a witness to her family’s confrontations with grief over an…
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Kurt Weston
Obscura – Kurt Weston Segment Damon Stea, video production and direction Photographer Kurt Weston shows himself in the process of…
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Lindsay Page
Force Field Lindsay Page shows documentation of her installation Force Field, which allows viewers to walk through layers of projection screens…
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Louise Short
Circa 1960 For fifteen years, Louise Short has collected found slides from the 1960s. She analyzes and classifies the images…
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Marc Tasman
About Polaroids Marc Tasman talks about the making of his photographic performance and endurance project Ten years and One Day in which…
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Margaret Inga Wiatrowski
Vanitas In this video, Margaret Inga Wiatrowski shows herself at work assembling environments from sculpted materials and found objects for…
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Maria Niro
Findings (Part 4) To create the video shown partially in this movie, Maria Niro superimposed recent video onto two stills…
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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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Matthew Slaats
Hyde Park Visual History Project The Hyde Park Visual History Project is a community‐centered artistic project that engages the elaborate evolution of…
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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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Naomi Shersty
The Understanding Naomi Shersty describes how she lit, captured, and digitally edited the image The Understanding in order to delve into past…
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Nicholas Wright
Old Media Nicholas Wright, Artist and Video DirectorSound mastered and composed by Owen Hackett Inspired by the photograph of a…
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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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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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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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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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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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Ross Sawyers
Constructed Spaces Through camera framing, Ross Sawyers transforms constructed spaces into seemingly real environments with ambiguous distinctions between interior and…
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Ryan Thompson
Burden of Proof Ryan Thompson experiments with our expectations of truth and our eagerness to believe by presenting two images…
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Sarah L. Soriano
56 Days: I’m Still Here Sarah L. Soriano works out personal experiences over time through daily documentation of stress levels…
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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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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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SSMIDD
THE MOMENT Introduction In this video, the artist “ssmidd” describes how the installation THE MOMENT involved a process of transforming surfaces, cultivating…
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Steven H. Silberg
Pixel-Lapse Photo Booth Steven H. Silberg invests time back into photographic portraiture by lengthening image exposure from seconds to minutes…
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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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Vesna Pavlovic
Display, Desire Vesna Pavlovic’s projected images of elaborate American model homes create cinematic installations that recall film sets. Web Links…