SCOTT BILLINGS

Scott Billings, Übermensch, Video Installation, Robot arms, 3DPrint, Video Camera, Software, 36″x25″x55″tall, Wil Aballe Art Projects, 2018

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Scott BillingsÜbermensch, Installation View, Wil Aballe Art Projects, 2018

Übermensch (2018) consists of a miniature set and industrial robot arms rehearsing a scene from Hitchcock’s, Rope (1948), a film based on the true story of Leopold and Loeb who killed a 14-year-old boy just for the thrill of it. Hitchcock described his single-duration film as a cinematographical stunt driven by the technical pursuit of the never-ending long take. The piece attempts to equate the activities of the auteur with the murderer and revisits ethical and moral debates of Nietzsche’s concept of the Übermensch in the age of artificial intelligence and posthumanism.

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Scott BillingsÜbermensch, Installation View, Wil Aballe Art Projects, 2018

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Scott BillingsÜbermensch, Installation View, Wil Aballe Art Projects, 2018

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Scott BillingsÜbermensch, Installation View, Wil Aballe Art Projects, 2018

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Scott Billings
Double Double Pendulum, 2014
Laser-pointer Photogram
11″ x 14″

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Scott Billings
Brice Marden Annexation, 2007
3D Print
8”x 10”x 8”

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Scott Billings
The Wolfman
, 2012
Video Installation
CRT TV, Turntable, Rare Earth Magnets
3min 33sec loop
Height variable (ceiling height)

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Scott Billings
Cygnus X-1, 2015
Two Rush 8-Tracks
A Farewell to Kings (1977) and Hemispheres (1978)
16.5″×6.5″x4″

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Scott Billings
80085, 2016
Two 4.000″ Aluminum Cubes, Blue Shim, Calipers
8″x 4″x 4″

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Scott Billings, The Wolfman, 2012, Video Installation, CRT TV, Turntable, Rare Earth Magnets, 3min 33sec loop