Below is a blog of sorts documenting and sharing what PRISM index,
its artists, and inspirations are doing.

Dana Birnbaum – 1979 – Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman

September 8th, 2010

Even though it’s the video that launched a million art school knock-offs, Dana Birnbaum’s Technology Transformation looks as fresh and spectacular today as it did in 1979. Birnbaum was one of the first to recycle TV footage and reedit it into a new video, one that both comments and distances itself from its source. Through a repetitive reediting of a scene of Wonder Woman undergoing her transformation into a superhero, Birnbaum creates a work whose length belies its range of commentary. It’s a piece that touches on the nature of television, the progress of technology, and our utopian belief in it. In addition, it’s a video whose technique quickly developed a new vocabulary for the arts.

~ Brian Whitener, All Movie Guide

Jean-Luc Godard’s new film – Film Socialisme

September 7th, 2010

Gil Scott Heron

September 7th, 2010

The legend Gil Scott Heron covering Smog’s “I’m New Here” from his 2005 album A River Ain’t Too Much To Love

Greg Eason

September 7th, 2010

Greg Eason

John Coletti

September 4th, 2010

Opens Slowly

Because you’re patient
helping world being
less injured in it
pull up skirt hard inside
simple folding
burnt my finger
putting you out

Truce

Like to complicate my life no I don’t
sleep all day full pail &
feather your hair grinding sea
for Texas decades, sure
I might be a fuck-up
awesome fuck-up

Two poems from New York City poet John Coletti’s new book “Mum Halo.”

via Bull Tounge

Rust Buckle Books

Proenza Schouler Presents “Act da Fool” by Harmony Korine

September 3rd, 2010

Pause by Ozant Kamaci

September 2nd, 2010

Artist Statement:

In ‘pause’, the work depicts the juxtaposition of powerful machines which are symbols of advancement and technology against nature which is widely accepted as precious and untouched. The medium of photography provides a visual dichotomy of reality and illusion through the aesthetics of plane and tree and their spatial relationship. Planes behind trees as individual objects are familiar and common, but when combined and interrelated, the viewer moves to a new space to behold the unexpected.



Ozant Kamaci

Trent Harris is making a new film and needs our help!

August 27th, 2010

Ry Cooder – Down In Mississippi

August 26th, 2010

Dale Edwin Murray

August 25th, 2010



Dale Edwin Murray