Courtney Christiason





Recruited "Recruited" is a found footage compilation that functions as a comment on army recruitment techniques. Army advertisements often use imagery that allude to video games and lack any insight into the true consequences of war. They try to disillusion people to the reality of being a soldier. This is my response. The Works of Courtney Christianson This video is an animated portfolio of my photoshop work. It is a couple years old, so it's missing some of my newer work. I will hopefully rework this peice at some point with some of my newer content featuring less dramatic music. Investigation of Infinite Space An installation I set up in a gallery space at the University of Oregon. It involved two projectors and two camcorders, creating infinite video loops on the wall and floor in order to create the illusion of infinite space. Dialogue This video is an experiment with 16 mm film. Different film strips were cut in half lengthwise and taped together to create a dialogue between B&W an Color film excerpts to create an abstract dialogue. Welcome to the Show... This intro sequence was created as my final project for video art with Kartz Ucci at the University of Oregon 09. We screened our video's at the Bijou theater in eugene, and this piece was filmed on location, in the same exact theater/room it was screened. It is meant to be a reflection on the distorted reality that film lends itself to, and also to introduce the art show at the bijou. Everything (still) in it's right place... This video concept is an investigation of an obscure "myth" about Radiohead's album Kid A. The myth states that any song off of the album can be made into a different sounding song if you play it on two different stereos, but with one copy starting exactly 17 seconds after the first. I have set up this video to do exactly that, but to also show a smaller video for every second in between the first and 17th second. The smaller videos do not have sound, but rather function as hypnotic visualizers. Radiohead is known for their precision and complexity, so I thought it would be interesting to see how this 17 second myth applies to a live performance by the band, rather than a perfected recording from their album. The results show that for the most part, everything really is still in its right place...