{"id":5872,"date":"2015-02-15T17:53:28","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T23:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=5872"},"modified":"2025-01-09T22:45:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T04:45:59","slug":"feb-19-robin-deacon-white-balance-a-history-of-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2015\/02\/15\/feb-19-robin-deacon-white-balance-a-history-of-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Feb 19 &#8211; Robin Deacon: White Balance: A History of Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thursday, February 19th<\/strong>\u00a0| <i>Robin Deacon in person!<\/i><em><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5836\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5836\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2015\/01\/Copy-of-Copy-of-RobinDeacon-WhiteBalance.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5836 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2015\/01\/Copy-of-Copy-of-RobinDeacon-WhiteBalance-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Robin Deacon, performance shot from White Balance: A History of Video, 2013. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Chloe Pang\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2015\/01\/Copy-of-Copy-of-RobinDeacon-WhiteBalance-1.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2015\/01\/Copy-of-Copy-of-RobinDeacon-WhiteBalance-1-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5836\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robin Deacon, performance shot from White Balance: A History of Video, 2013. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Chloe Pang<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Acclaimed artist and filmmaker Robin Deacon presents a stirring performance on the history and aesthetics of video. The title <i>White Balance<\/i> refers to the process by which a video camera is adjusted to account for differences in light. For Deacon, this process also suggests video\u2019s capability to convey \u201ca truer sense of what is being seen.\u201d Using a series of outmoded video cameras and discarded tape formats, Deacon weaves together autobiography, fiction, and old recordings\u2014home movies, artists\u2019 tapes, archival TV footage\u2014to explore the ways seeing and remembering may be transformed by the medium used to capture the event.<\/p>\n<p><i>2013\u201315, US, live performance with analog and digital video, ca 60 min + discussion<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Robin Deacon (1973, Eastbourne, UK) is an artist, writer, filmmaker, and educator currently based in Chicago. His interdisciplinary practice spans a variety of themes, including explorations of performer presence and absence, the role of the artist as biographer, and journalistic approaches to art\u2019s practice. Since the early 1990s, his work has been presented at conferences and festivals internationally in Europe, US, and Asia, most recently at the Tate Britain, London (2014) and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2013). He is an Associate Professor in Performance at SAIC. His feature length documentary film <i>Spectacle: A Portrait of Stuart Sherman <\/i>will be screened at the MCA, Chicago in October 2015.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2015\/05\/Robin-Deacon.pdf\">Robin Deacon Program Notes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/829836550393386\/\"><strong>Facebook Event Page<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, February 19th\u00a0| Robin Deacon in person! Acclaimed artist and filmmaker Robin Deacon presents a stirring performance on the history and aesthetics of video. 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