VideoSPACE: The Psyche-Master Chronicles posted on April 19th, 2009

mark pellegrino @ Images festival + xspace

Pellegrino’s project is about the artist’s never-ending pursuit for conceptual identity throughout time, and video as a vehicle to reach those goals. In VideoSPACE: The Psyche-Master Chronicles, Pellegrino argues that video unlike film, allows the viewer to enter a heterotopic space where he/she assumes the role of the camera and how, unlike our perceivable/bodily space/time, the video artist can control and manipulate the space/time of this ‘other space’ that the viewer temporarily inhabits.

Mark Pellegrino is a Toronto-based video artist who works with antiquated video equipment, experimental software and electronics to explore the discourse, structure and anomalies of the medium. He is currently the Technical Coordinator at Vtape and will receive his BFA from the Integrated Media department at Ontario College of Art & Design  in 2009.

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from the vtape days…

“Young”equates with speed - of movement and of mind - an ad man knows that you can stretch the or shrink the appearance of time by how fast you put your message across. The older I got the quicker the time passed, but I seemed to get less done. I couldn’t keep up. It was a perfect idea - to commit a crime in order to experience time - to stop time and live in that moment - knowing that the penalty for failure would be a surfeit of time imposed by a jealous society in all its interminable slowness.

neil r. armstrong, video artist, 1983