Gloria Chung
2021It Was Summer When
Gloria Chung
The surveillance network went down for two weeks. From Into the Midst of Things (2017–2020), a series of 1–2 minute video vignettes which reflect on ways human life is existentially altered by technological advancements while questioning whether such landscapes are in the future or already upon us.
It Was Summer When
The Photoplay Obeys the Laws of the Mind
Gloria Chung
Using the closest thing we can share for time travel--the moving image--to ask questions of time relative to light, motion, and mass. Does light create, prolong, reverse time? Does motion alter our experience of time? Does mass warp our sense of time?
The Photoplay Obeys the Laws of the Mind
Make Sure the Sea Is Still There
Gloria Chung
My projects often come about from traveling, which was not possible in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, I attempted to travel vicariously through the webcams of the Icelandic Road and Coastal Administration, capturing screenshots on my phone and editing them with videos I had recorded during the pandemic and on previous trips to Iceland. I found time and landscapes moving strangely, if at all—seeming to mirror our new reality of sudden isolation, tragedy, and the utter unknown.
Make Sure the Sea Is Still There
