Victory! / Curtain 2 with Noise 2009 A Voice rises up, calling forth a crowd it cannot contain.  Its content is indistinguishable, barely relevant, but wholly material.  The crowd insists that the Voice speak with its demands, convinced that it's been doing so all along.  The Voice, trying not to disappoint, cloaks itself in the call it tries with all its might to embody.  The crowd, believing itself victorious, is rapturous; the Voice, obliging. There are at least two blanknesses in the world: that of absolute emptiness and that of absolute fullness.  I don't know if they are distinguishable from each other. The image of noise, represented in analog video, our once familiar "snow," is edging closer and closer to extinction, or at least invisibility, replaced by semantic failures not so easily pictured.  Victory! (perhaps preemptively nostalgic) takes this as its primary motif from which it deviates and returns.  An obfuscated signal is mobilized as a positive element, reveling in its own obliterated state, desperate to make itself newly legible, distinct from all predecessors and causes.  Superimposed over itself it chases a new future, of which it, in its shining arbitrariness, is the sole cause.  single channel video with sound,  16 minutes