This is a remix (created at the Experimental Television Center in Owego, New York) of a 2007 piece, utilizing the ETC’s equipment to explore the video frame and bring out the performance aspects embedded in the material, especially involving how the body moves through the frame and the depicted land.... More

This is a remix (created at the Experimental Television Center in Owego, New York) of a 2007 piece, utilizing the ETC’s equipment to explore the video frame and bring out the performance aspects embedded in the material, especially involving how the body moves through the frame and the depicted landscape. The tension between movement and stillness, between sound and image, and between the impersonal nature of landscapes and the very personal interior of the self, are the subjects of "Fatherland". The source for this piece is a home video that documents a walk through the cemetery where my father's grave resides, and what happens when we find it. The video and the soundtrack of this piece attempt to re-imagine the emotional states and the relationships contained in the source video, between myself, my father's grave, my friend (who is operating the camera), his toddler son, and the landscape around us. Close

Toby Kaufmann-Buhler explores the relationships that exist between the video frame, sound, and the audience. He treats the frame as a unit of measure and a boundary, and also as a mode of expression, to be played within and around; sound becomes less the glue holding images together and more an emb.... More

Toby Kaufmann-Buhler explores the relationships that exist between the video frame, sound, and the audience. He treats the frame as a unit of measure and a boundary, and also as a mode of expression, to be played within and around; sound becomes less the glue holding images together and more an embodying space that the images and audience share. He received a B.A. in Fine Arts from the University of South Florida in 2001, followed by an M.A. in Communication Art & Design from the Royal College of Art in 2003.  Close

My work is concerned with the video frame, the sync between the frame and sound, and landscapes (both external and internal). In this work, the frame is a unit of measure and a boundary, and I have found that it is also a mode of expression, to be played within and around. People frame landsca.... More

My work is concerned with the video frame, the sync between the frame and sound, and landscapes (both external and internal). In this work, the frame is a unit of measure and a boundary, and I have found that it is also a mode of expression, to be played within and around. People frame landscapes in personal and impersonal ways, and the memory of a landscape can become more evocative after leaving it, aided by the recorded tracings people make. All of my work explores this memory and the relationship of the self to the landscape: at times the body is traveling, at other times fixed; at times it is before the camera lens, and at other times behind the camera. Throughout the work this relationship is examined, in order to explore the boundaries where the landscape and self meet.  Close