A Moving Picture Show A Video Installation by Allen Yates

Opening Reception: Friday, September 19, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Artist’s Talk: Thursday, October 30, 4:00 p.m.

A Moving Picture Show, a new video installation by Albany-based artist Allen Yates, consists of twenty looped video projections. Each video depicts a single action; some actions are as simple as a spinning coin or a dog drinking water, others are far more complex. For instance, in Shuttle, 2002, Yates takes raw footage of a NASA space shuttle launch and focuses on a moment during the launch that is 1/6th of a second long.  Through a series of painstaking digital manipulations Yates isolates this moment and repeats it over and over again.  In the resulting video loop, the shuttle seems to hover in one place thwarting the viewer’s expectation that it will either move forward or crash. As such Yates creates a totally artificial moment that in his words exists ‘outside time’. 

Yates received his law degree from Albany Law School of Union University in 1991 and his Master of Fine Arts from the University at Albany in 1999.