The second industrial revolution, unlike the first, does not present us with such crushing images as rolling mills and molten steel, but with ÒbitsÓ in a flow of information....the iron machines still exist, but they obey the orders of weightless bits.

Italo Calvino, from the memo on Lightness,
Six Memos for the Next Millennium, 1985
Conceptual scale has always intrigued me more than physical scale. My pieces are tactile embodiments of intuition, reflecting an interest in both function and absurdity. Undermining an objectÕs practical function creates the potential for it to function poetically.


A central concern in my videos is that simple illusion of motion so intrinsic to kinetic imaging. I create vignettes or distilled sequences with an emphasis on cause and effect. In this way I believe that video can be more like dance, music, or poetry, taking place in time while existing on its own terms. Perhaps the very first films by Thomas Edison, depicting kisses and sneezes, are just as contemporary today as they were at the turn of the last century.

Peter Eudenbach

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