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Location: Chicago, IL

Alexander Stewart

: 100 Foot Pull 16mm, 2:45, looped 2010 viewable online: http://vimeo.com/alexanderstewart/100footpull A camera is pulled 100 feet across a field in the time it takes to shoot 100 feet of film. The camera is weighed down with a small boulder to make the task appropriately difficult. The artist is challenged to accomplish the task in the given time, 2:45.

: 100 Foot Ride 16mm, 2:45, looped 2010 viewable online: http://vimeo.com/alexanderstewart/100footride Continuing a series of projects that use the 100-foot length of a roll of 16mm film as a formal constraint, "100 Foot Ride" uses a durational performance-art activity to create a structural film. For this piece, the artist constructed a contraption with a loop of wire connecting a stationary bicycle with a 16mm Bolex camera. As the rider pedals the bicycle, the wheel of the bike moves the loop of wire, which turns a handle, which cranks the film through the camera. While 100 feet is not traditionally a challenging distance for a bicyclist, in this piece the 100-foot length of the roll of film proves to be a difficult length for the artist as he struggles with the physical task of pedaling while battling the entropy of his jury-rigged bike-camera contraption.