ALEXANDER HAHN
electronic media artist
ABOUT
VIDEO
SPACE
Transit of Earth
The Ruins of Naurattan
Transmission
The Swift Erosion of a Crater through Human Intervention
Albedo 0.30
Watching a Gora Drive by
Triumph of Labor
Gentleman of the Road
Kareena
Tectonic Shifts
Rationalization of Sight
Moonlighting :: Dance by Lunar Polarity
Boy by the Ganges
CFL - Coded Fluorescent Light
The Dead
Kareena
Tectonic Shifts
Rationalization of Sight
Moonlighting : Dance by Lunar Polarity
CFL-Coded Fluorescent Light
Boy by the Ganges
The Dead
The Dead | Vito Acconci
The Dead | Dinanath Pathy
The Dead | Taylor Mead
The Dead | Lou Reed
The Dead | Max Mathews
Julie at the Beach
Morse Rigveda
ON
Cao Chang Di Road
Public Spaces - Private Strangers
Propitious Stars - Master of the Staring Eyes
Luminous Point
Occurrence on Broadway & Columbus
Rabbit in your Healights
5 Anamorphoses - The Dead
Plant Cycle
The Dead :: 5 Anamorphoses
Julie at the Beach
Morse Rigveda
ON
Cao Chang Di Road
Public Places - Private Strangers
Propitious Stars - Master of the Staring Eye
Luminous Point
Occurrence on Broadway & Columbus
Rabbit in your Headlights
Plant Cycle
On that day with Juliusz
Moving Vast Amounts of Water to a Barren Place
N 36º25’12” - W 116º48’43” (Zabriskie Point)
Stonehenge
My Own Private Universe - The Great Attractor
My Life as a Ghost
The Invisible Never Happens
Memory of Light - Light of Memory
I Came Here to Sleep
Séance
On the Nature of Things
Of Shadow & Light - Riddle of Images
Fundamentls of Legerdemain
Urbs Turrita - City of Towers
The Bernoulli Itinerary
Arthur
Aviation Memories
Urban Memories
Dream of Zanzibar
Cyborgs & Other New Machines
It that once computed the Fibonacci Numbers to Infinity
It's supposed to happen automatically ...
It That Once Beat The Masters
Magick Piece
The Air is Full of Voices
Family Blue
Android Plant
Plant #2-78/278
Plant #2-16/349
Moving Vast Amounts of Water to a Barren Place
N 36º25’12” - W 116º48’43” (Zabriskie Point)
Stonehenge
My Own Private Universe - the great attractor
My Life as a Ghost
The Invisible Never Happens
Memory of Light - Light of Memory
I Came Here to Sleep
Séance
On the Nature of Things
Of Shadow & Light - Riddle of Images
Fundamentals of Legerdemain
Urbs Turrita - City of Towers
The Bernoulli Itinerary
Arthur
Aviation Memories
Urban Memories
Dream of Zanzibar
Cyborgs & Other New Machines
It That Once Computed the Fibonacci Numbers to Infinity
It's supposed to happen automatically but in Reality you must press this Button
It that once beat the Masters
Magick Piece
The Air is Full of Voices
Family Blue
Android Plant
Plant #2-78/278
Plant #2-16/349
IMAGE
Tough Older Women ... (Medusa)
Time and Again
Here Time Turns Into Space
Plein-air - Spectacle of Public & Private Calamities
Coup d'œil
Public Places - Private Encounters
A.I.: Simulated Drawings - Spurious Engravings
- And I Build a Crooked Space
The Artist's Studio as Encryption Lab
Germania Flats
Remade Topographies
Vault
Early Works
CV
NEWS
ABOUT
VIDEO
SPACE
Transit of Earth
The Ruins of Naurattan
Transmission
The Swift Erosion of a Crater through Human Intervention
Albedo 0.30
Watching a Gora Drive by
Triumph of Labor
Gentleman of the Road
Kareena
Tectonic Shifts
Rationalization of Sight
Moonlighting :: Dance by Lunar Polarity
Boy by the Ganges
CFL - Coded Fluorescent Light
The Dead
Kareena
Tectonic Shifts
Rationalization of Sight
Moonlighting : Dance by Lunar Polarity
CFL-Coded Fluorescent Light
Boy by the Ganges
The Dead
The Dead | Vito Acconci
The Dead | Dinanath Pathy
The Dead | Taylor Mead
The Dead | Lou Reed
The Dead | Max Mathews
Julie at the Beach
Morse Rigveda
ON
Cao Chang Di Road
Public Spaces - Private Strangers
Propitious Stars - Master of the Staring Eyes
Luminous Point
Occurrence on Broadway & Columbus
Rabbit in your Healights
5 Anamorphoses - The Dead
Plant Cycle
The Dead :: 5 Anamorphoses
Julie at the Beach
Morse Rigveda
ON
Cao Chang Di Road
Public Places - Private Strangers
Propitious Stars - Master of the Staring Eye
Luminous Point
Occurrence on Broadway & Columbus
Rabbit in your Headlights
Plant Cycle
On that day with Juliusz
Moving Vast Amounts of Water to a Barren Place
N 36º25’12” - W 116º48’43” (Zabriskie Point)
Stonehenge
My Own Private Universe - The Great Attractor
My Life as a Ghost
The Invisible Never Happens
Memory of Light - Light of Memory
I Came Here to Sleep
Séance
On the Nature of Things
Of Shadow & Light - Riddle of Images
Fundamentls of Legerdemain
Urbs Turrita - City of Towers
The Bernoulli Itinerary
Arthur
Aviation Memories
Urban Memories
Dream of Zanzibar
Cyborgs & Other New Machines
It that once computed the Fibonacci Numbers to Infinity
It's supposed to happen automatically ...
It That Once Beat The Masters
Magick Piece
The Air is Full of Voices
Family Blue
Android Plant
Plant #2-78/278
Plant #2-16/349
Moving Vast Amounts of Water to a Barren Place
N 36º25’12” - W 116º48’43” (Zabriskie Point)
Stonehenge
My Own Private Universe - the great attractor
My Life as a Ghost
The Invisible Never Happens
Memory of Light - Light of Memory
I Came Here to Sleep
Séance
On the Nature of Things
Of Shadow & Light - Riddle of Images
Fundamentals of Legerdemain
Urbs Turrita - City of Towers
The Bernoulli Itinerary
Arthur
Aviation Memories
Urban Memories
Dream of Zanzibar
Cyborgs & Other New Machines
It That Once Computed the Fibonacci Numbers to Infinity
It's supposed to happen automatically but in Reality you must press this Button
It that once beat the Masters
Magick Piece
The Air is Full of Voices
Family Blue
Android Plant
Plant #2-78/278
Plant #2-16/349
IMAGE
Tough Older Women ... (Medusa)
Time and Again
Here Time Turns Into Space
Plein-air - Spectacle of Public & Private Calamities
Coup d'œil
Public Places - Private Encounters
A.I.: Simulated Drawings - Spurious Engravings
- And I Build a Crooked Space
The Artist's Studio as Encryption Lab
Germania Flats
Remade Topographies
Vault
Early Works
CV
NEWS
ABOUT
VIDEO
SPACE
Transit of Earth
The Ruins of Naurattan
Transmission
The Swift Erosion of a Crater through Human Intervention
Albedo 0.30
Watching a Gora Drive by
Triumph of Labor
Gentleman of the Road
Kareena
Tectonic Shifts
Rationalization of Sight
Moonlighting :: Dance by Lunar Polarity
Boy by the Ganges
CFL - Coded Fluorescent Light
The Dead
Kareena
Tectonic Shifts
Rationalization of Sight
Moonlighting : Dance by Lunar Polarity
CFL-Coded Fluorescent Light
Boy by the Ganges
The Dead
The Dead | Vito Acconci
The Dead | Dinanath Pathy
The Dead | Taylor Mead
The Dead | Lou Reed
The Dead | Max Mathews
Julie at the Beach
Morse Rigveda
ON
Cao Chang Di Road
Public Spaces - Private Strangers
Propitious Stars - Master of the Staring Eyes
Luminous Point
Occurrence on Broadway & Columbus
Rabbit in your Healights
5 Anamorphoses - The Dead
Plant Cycle
The Dead :: 5 Anamorphoses
Julie at the Beach
Morse Rigveda
ON
Cao Chang Di Road
Public Places - Private Strangers
Propitious Stars - Master of the Staring Eye
Luminous Point
Occurrence on Broadway & Columbus
Rabbit in your Headlights
Plant Cycle
On that day with Juliusz
Moving Vast Amounts of Water to a Barren Place
N 36º25’12” - W 116º48’43” (Zabriskie Point)
Stonehenge
My Own Private Universe - The Great Attractor
My Life as a Ghost
The Invisible Never Happens
Memory of Light - Light of Memory
I Came Here to Sleep
Séance
On the Nature of Things
Of Shadow & Light - Riddle of Images
Fundamentls of Legerdemain
Urbs Turrita - City of Towers
The Bernoulli Itinerary
Arthur
Aviation Memories
Urban Memories
Dream of Zanzibar
Cyborgs & Other New Machines
It that once computed the Fibonacci Numbers to Infinity
It's supposed to happen automatically ...
It That Once Beat The Masters
Magick Piece
The Air is Full of Voices
Family Blue
Android Plant
Plant #2-78/278
Plant #2-16/349
Moving Vast Amounts of Water to a Barren Place
N 36º25’12” - W 116º48’43” (Zabriskie Point)
Stonehenge
My Own Private Universe - the great attractor
My Life as a Ghost
The Invisible Never Happens
Memory of Light - Light of Memory
I Came Here to Sleep
Séance
On the Nature of Things
Of Shadow & Light - Riddle of Images
Fundamentals of Legerdemain
Urbs Turrita - City of Towers
The Bernoulli Itinerary
Arthur
Aviation Memories
Urban Memories
Dream of Zanzibar
Cyborgs & Other New Machines
It That Once Computed the Fibonacci Numbers to Infinity
It's supposed to happen automatically but in Reality you must press this Button
It that once beat the Masters
Magick Piece
The Air is Full of Voices
Family Blue
Android Plant
Plant #2-78/278
Plant #2-16/349
IMAGE
Tough Older Women ... (Medusa)
Time and Again
Here Time Turns Into Space
Plein-air - Spectacle of Public & Private Calamities
Coup d'œil
Public Places - Private Encounters
A.I.: Simulated Drawings - Spurious Engravings
- And I Build a Crooked Space
The Artist's Studio as Encryption Lab
Germania Flats
Remade Topographies
Vault
Early Works
CV
NEWS
CAO CHANG DI ROAD ON NOVEMBER 24 2009 I STOOD THERE WAITING
(2012, 41:43’ loop, HD video projection, 5:1 surround sound)
A handheld video, shot mostly out of focus, of Cao Chang Di Road, a Beijing art district street. Passing vehicles and people trigger the camera pans. Fluctuations in the original ambient soundtrack control the amount of grain. Blur and grain varyingly obscure the details - fuzziness of recollection and forgetting. At the time, it seemed like filming an ordinary place: the estate of artist Ai Weiwei to the right, eventually, two women waiting to be let in. In the wake following the artist's detention, the reconstructed wait seems permeated by the tensional atmosphere present in covert or surveillance footage, ubiquitous these days, foreshadowing imminent perpetration in even the seemingly most inconspicuous places. A caveat about the on-line version: the web codec by its nature degrades much of the pointillist grain characteristic of the original, non-compressed 1080 HD video.