![]() An experimental research project was created between them, allowing Pia to test out her fashion-for-the-dead and Ian, an entomologist who studies human homicide, to research clothing decay on dead victims. Pia and Ian amassed a team to wash, dress and bury 21 dead pigs on a kangaroo reserve. ![]() Then they dug up the remains to examine the decay of the ritual burial garments. Death Down Under follows the entire process from gathering the slaughtered pigs to the results in the laboratory. This video looks at our care for the dead - be they human or non-human animals. How can we think through death and decay to sustain the earth's balanced environment? It also brings to light ideas of green burials and the ecology of death and life. Kathy High is an interdisciplinary artist and educator working with time-based arts and biology. In the early 1980s she studied film and video at University of Buffalo with media pioneers Hollis Frampton, Steina Vasulka, and Tony Conrad. ![]() She produces videos, performances, and installations about gender and technology, empathy, and animal sentience. She is a scholar of the history of video technologies, systems, and video art. She has received awards from Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and National Endowment for the Arts. Her art works have been shown at Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Lincoln Center, Exit Art (New York), Science Gallery (Dublin), NGBK (Berlin), MASS MoCA (North Adams), and Videotage Art Space (Hong Kong). Her co-edited book, The Emergence of Video Processing Tools: Television Becoming Unglued (with Sherry Miller Hocking, and Mona Jimenez), on the history of video imaging tools, was published by Intellect Books (UK) in 2014. High is Professor in the Department of Arts at Rensselaer.Ĭynthia White has an MFA in Film and Television from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Over the past ten years she has worked on several award winning projects, both documentary and narrative. After two years of working in Santiago Chile for Productora Nueva Imagen, El Show de los Libros, she completed a short film, Sobarzo Pega Fuertewhich won best documentary at the Valdivia International Film Festival and was later broadcasted on TVN, Chile. In 2000, Cynthia joined Emmy award winner Bill Moyers’ production team in New York City and worked as an assistant producer and editor on his feature length documentary called America’s First River: Stories from the Hudson. ¶ She has produced and directed various short films and documentaries in the San Francisco area. Gordo, a film she produced, screened at US film festivals and won three separate audience awards. Bird Dog, a short film she wrote and directed, is currently in distribution through OUAT Media in Toronto, Canada and aired on Movieola The Short Film Channel. ¶ Cynthia now lives in Western Australia as a freelance filmmaker following Ship Spotters and documenting the world of BioArts for researchers at SymbioticA, University of Western Australia. ![]() Jason Livingston is a film and video maker primarily based in NY, and currently teaches cinema at the University of Iowa. His work has received awards and been programmed at numerous festivals and venues, including Rotterdam, Cinematexas, Media City, Margaret Mead and more.
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