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During November and December, Rena Bransten Gallery will present a new series by Chip Lord entitled Movie Map. The Movie Map project contains photo diptychs of San Francisco movie theaters and a video piece. The eight diptychs each pair a photograph of a movie theater with a digitally composed montage that brings the fictional space of the cinema into the public space of the street. The project uses the term mapping figuratively to imply the geographic dispersion of the neighborhood theater as a site of the imagination. In the video, a fictional mapping of San Francisco is inscribed by the two intercut chase scenes: Steve McQueen in Bullitt and James Stewart in Vertigo. The two and a half minute sequence is repeated, but bracketed wach time by a different neighborhood theater from which it seems to emanate.
Chip Lord is a media artist who has worked with video since 1972. He produced Media Burn and The Eternal Frame with Ant Farm and Cadillac Ranch 1974/1994. He makes single channel tapes such as El Zocalo, 2002 as well as video installations - Witness, Picture Windows, and Fashion Zone, which was shown at Rena Bransten Gallery in 1992. Additionally, he works with photography and digital photography. His photo series, Awakening from the Twentieth Century, first shown at Rena Bransten Gallery in 1995, traveled as part of the exhibition, "Photography After Photography," a project of Siemens Kulturprogramm in Germany. It was also selected for the Noorderlicht 1997 Photofestival in Groningen, the Netherlands. Lord is currently working with his former Ant Farm partners on a major museum survey, Ant Farm 1968-1978. It opens at the Berkeley Art Museum in January 2004 and travel to four other venues in the US and Europe.
Chip Lord is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Fim and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he teaches courses in film and video.
Click here for Chip Lord's biography.
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