Drawn to Drawing

This is the video of a person drawing on the subway. What puzzled me was how much he sank into his paper. It was as if he drew with his mind, his nose, his will power.

Teachable Moments

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Teachable Moments is a series of podcasts, short movies, slide shows, animations, and stories representing moments in which we experienced learning in surprising or
unexpected ways.

Originated as a class assignment for a studio course in art education, Teachable Moments continues to record unique and unpredicted incidents of learning.

This episode with Pau Atela, Professor of Mathematiks who talks about his newly found interest in drawing, marks the beginning of this series.

A Project by Richard Jochum
New York 2011
Creative Commons Licence

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Dust, Dirt, and Scratches

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[This is a preview version of a movie which has been produced for an exhibition.] Dust, Dirt, and Scratches is a movie about the obsession of cleaning up.It shows the process of digitally retouching an image which is full of stains and scratches in Photoshop. The cursor turns into a wiping cloth and broom. Guided by an invisible hand, it touches the image in sections to remove stains till the spotty image becomes plain. - Recorded as a screen-cast, the movie serves as a tutorial as well as a demonstration of compulsive behavior. If longing for perfection is inherent to the arts - hereby creating beautiful pictures at times - it's also a futile obsession. For a video artist who is used to the format of movies under five minutes, Richard Jochum's screen-cast is remarkably lengthy (42 min). However, the goal is not to have the audience watch the entire movie rather than make the viewer realize that there will always one more spot that needs cleaning. And if the superficial stains are cleared, the image will still show hidden, low-lying stains.

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Daniel Falk

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Collaborative Silverware

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Welded silverware, installation & performance, 2009-2010. Collaborative Silverware is an installation and performance piece for 2 performer, 1 table, 2 plates, elongated silverware and food. The 36 inch-spoons, forks and knives will prove themselves to be too long to feed oneself individually; the two performers will have to feed each other. Conceived and directed by Richard Jochum; performed by Jessica Sugerman and William Penrose.

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Tomatoes

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"Tomatoes" is a 1 min animation by Richard Jochum produced with Cooliris, a Firefox add-on. The video shows what is basically a Google-search for images on tomatoes. The result is a reflection on contemporary visual culture as it presents itself through the graphical interface of contemporary social media. "Visual Culture Tomatoes". New York / World Wide Web, 2010.

Matthew Amster

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Eliot Eskin

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