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Our discerning resident video curator mines the depths of YouTube for the most sublime videos, hanging them here for your viewing pleasure. Cave, Klaus, Bowie, Disney, streaming 24/7 from the far corners of her psyche!

HARRY EVERETT SMITH
"Early Abstractions"

Proto video art from a Beatnik mystic whom Kenneth Anger once referred to as "the greatest living magician." Here, projected geometric forms writhe and pulse in four movements. (Films originally silent.)

ALIEN SEX FIEND
"RIP" (1984)

Video version of post-punk Alien Sex Fiend's college radio smash "RIP," featuring a remarkable mash of Paleolithic Handicam effects and spook-out stagecraft.

JAMES CHANCE AND THE CONTORTIONS
"I Can't Stand Myself" (1978)

James Chance covering James Brown's "I Can't Stand Myself." From Brian Eno's 1978 compilation "No New York," which also features No Wave bands The Teenage Jerks, Mars, and DNA.

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"Sarah" (1984)

A solarized Karmahn Ghia, blue Curacao cocktails, and a slinky pair of legs ascend a staircase to the quintessential high-tech minimal wave Frenchmen, End of Data.

Dan Deacon talks
with Juno Demelo.
MAY 2009

Brian Berman documents the strange world of subcultures.
FEB 2009

Thomas Bradshaw tells Molly Kincaid about his most recent play, Dawn. Photographs by
Colin Dodgson.
JAN 2009

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