A photographic imagination

The video work that summarizes the years 2001-2008 as they came: fear, money, fidelity and art. Each piece is 90 seconds or less, a limit of the video publishing platform on Flickr. Copyright 2008 Ron Diorio

What I did during the war: Part 1 Fear
(01:06)

Copyright 2008 Ron Diorio

Images and Montage: Ron Diorio
Music: Souvenir de Porto Rico op 31 (Louis Morzan Gottschalk ) from Archvie.org
Words: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1940) from Archvie.org

What I did during the war; Part 2 Money
(01:30)

Copyright 2008 Ron Diorio

Images and Montage: Ron Diorio

Librivox recording
"The error of imaginary causes"
The Twilight of the Idols
by Friedrich Nietzsche.
Read by D.E. Wittkower
www.archive.org/details/the_twilight_of_the_idols_librivox

Other audio sample
The Psalters, Home for Refugees
www.archive.org/

What I did during the war, Part 3 The Surge (Sex)
(01:20)

Copyright 2008 Ron Diorio

What I did during the war, Part 4 Ragazzi di vita (Art)
(01:27)

Copyright 2008 Ron Diorio

Courtesy of Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art
www.phhfineart.com/

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Poegles project

Ongoing multimedia exploration images and spoken word performances of constructed texts based on Poegles. Poegles are poems made from Google search results.

A season of wants (2008)

Search term "I want"

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Penny candy (2008)

Search term "hometown"

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Some bad news (2008)

Search term "secrets"

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Night light (2008)

Search term "night light"

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About Ron Diorio
Ron Diorio is a web based artist working in multiple media including photography, video, spoken word and interactive applications. Ron has had three solo shows of his photographs, which have also been included in many group shows. Ron's work has been exhibited internationally and is currently represented by Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art in New York City (phhfineart.com) . He produced Zine TV (93-95), a DIY television series on the diversity and creativity of the self publishing community - the "zine scene" of the mid 90s. Ron's current video work focuses on virtuality and the "imitation of life" in the early 21st century. The work is presented through short personal essays weaving, spoken word, video, photography, Poegles, and found public forum
postings and other texts. Ron is VP for Product and Community Development for The Economist/Economist.com. He is a life long New Yorker and lives with his wife and two children in northern Manhattan.

Statement of work
I am a citizen artist and through the social web the audience and this body of work have found each other. This current video work extends my recent photographic explorations challenging the veracity of documentary practices through the ambiguity of place and persona, manipulation of media, low-fi production and social methods of distribution. The video links included in this submission include my most recent work produced and premiered online for the active online community audience involved with my work since 2004.

About the Poegles Project
The Poegles Project was started in 2008 as an exploration of the emerging dominance of meta data indexing, the organization of information and the machine prioritizion of those results. It attempts to re-describe the origination of narration and the assembly of visual and audio cues drawing on the notions of surrealist poetry, Burroughs cut-ups and the photo-cinema of Chris Marker.

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A season of wants

I want to be a super hero
I want to return
I want to date
I want to be heard
I want to focus
I want to lock up
I want 18 million dollars
I want my title back
I want a win
I want to watch
I want to establish an identity
I want to ban booze
I want to stay safe
I want you
I want a child
I want a friend on facebook
I want season tickets
I want be a guy that makes stupid comments
I want date a rock star

I want a lot

I want stay
I want see how it ends
I want be a part
I want discuss your future
I want to change it
I want a new deal
I want to rock
I want it the best way
I want to be a spoiler
I want to stop
I want to outlaw
I want to say too much
I want to keep all my cards on the table
I want to to be patient
I want to you to believe
I want to eat at a table with my own silver
I want a wife
I want to be back

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I was reading on Alec Soth's blog on "The Sentence"

But while photographers can help shape their sentence, they can’t control it. No matter how many times Cartier-Bresson called himself an anarchist it would never make the sentence. And if Paul Shambroom ends up taking a picture of George Bush’s assassination, that will be his sentence. Unless you change your name, the sentence can only be shaped, not controlled.

and then ran into this

From Mark Mothersbaugh, 2002 with Andy Spade

It takes a masterful artist to have his art embraced by popular culture and not turn to shit. You have to be really clever or really subversive. Target used the Devo song "Beautiful World" in a commercial last Christmas. That was one of my favorite moments for us as a band, even though they didn't include the punch line of the song, which is, "It's a beautiful world for you, for you, but not for me." That song was basically a diatribe against mindless consumerism. It's very ironic but also very satisfying that they'd use it.

Makes me wonder if it is better to have a hand at writing your sentence and have if forgotten or embracing the open source nature of one's own reputation and go with the flow.

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