Cliff Baldwin
email: cliff@pleasewatch.com
Cliff Baldwin is an artist, designer, and filmmaker. He lives and works in Aquebogue, NY and New York City.
He has most recently held a position as Associate Professor at Pratt Institute's Graduate Communication Design Department where he taught Design in Motion and Communication Technology in the Digital Design Program.
He has lectured and exhibited his sculpture and video in Tokyo, Cologne, Berlin, Mexico City, Los Angeles, and New York.
During the 1980's he was a founding member of the art group AQUI which published AQUI, a large format silkscreened alternative art publication.
He has most recently held a position as Associate Professor at Pratt Institute's Graduate Communication Design Department where he taught Design in Motion and Communication Technology in the Digital Design Program.
He has lectured and exhibited his sculpture and video in Tokyo, Cologne, Berlin, Mexico City, Los Angeles, and New York.
During the 1980's he was a founding member of the art group AQUI which published AQUI, a large format silkscreened alternative art publication.
In the following decade he formed the collaborative word-art duo of Baldwin+Hompson with the Fluxus conceptual artist Davi Det Hompson. Their sculpture, video and audio work was exhibited both here and abroad.
In the late eighties he made several conceptual super-8 and 16 millimeter films. 10 Films in 20 Minutes and 4 Spots for TV premiered in 1990 at the Anthology Film Archives in New York. Among other 16mm shorts made during this time were, Swingin Cats, This Film Will Be Violent and Shhh. He also made People Film during this same period, a series of silent portraits of art dealers, downtown painters, alternative radio personalities, minimalist composers and the occasional unsung country western hero.
A collaboration in the 1994 with composer, Mikel Rouse resulted in Digital Films, a multimedia performance for solo voice and computer generated video. Originally produced on a rudimentary Macintosh 660AV, it proved an interesting way to create film. It was premiered in New York in a multi-monitor presentation with Rouse as solo performer.
In 1994 their multimedia opera, Failing Kansas which melded a solo opera based on Capote's In Cold Blood, with a drive-in sized film 50 Films in 75 Minutes, as backdrop, was performed at NYC's The Kitchen.
Most recently his short film Wizyta shot in Poland was chosen to appear on I-Film, the independent filmmaker's site.
New films created specifically for internet viewing are available at pleasewatch.com.
His work is in numerous collections including The Museum of Modern Art, The Walker Art Center, The Museum of The Art Institute of Chicago, The Brooklyn Museum and The Museum of Rhode Island School of Design.
New films created specifically for internet viewing are available at pleasewatch.com.
His work is in numerous collections including The Museum of Modern Art, The Walker Art Center, The Museum of The Art Institute of Chicago, The Brooklyn Museum and The Museum of Rhode Island School of Design.
Burgered Shaked and Fried
Crununnch
Dnky Kaht
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