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Van Theodore Carlson (May 4, 1950 - December 14, 2011) was an American photographer, cinematographer and visual artist, known for the media art of Lohner Carlson.

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Life and career

Van Theodore Carlson was born in Colorado in 1950. [1] He studied philosophy and film and then moved to Hollywood in 1978. [2]

For cinematography, Carlson received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. [3] He has worked with directors such as Steven Spielberg, David Lynch and Peter Friedman as well as for productions with Arte, ZDF, A&E, HBO, History Channel, Lifetime, and PBS. [4] [5]

Carlson's frequent collaborator and artistic partner was award-winning filmmaker, media artist and composer Henning Lohner. Their acclaimed artistic partnership, known as Lohner Carlson, started in 1989 with the biographical art film Peefeeyatko about famed American rock musician Frank Zappa. [6] Of Carlson's work, Zappa said: “The guy’s brilliant.” [7]

Lohner and Carlson were also influenced by their collaboration with composer John Cage, which includes the art film One11 and 103 (1992) directed by Lohner, “a 90-minute black-and-white meditation on the waxing and waning of light.” [8] They paid posthumous homage to Cage with the “composed film” The Revenge of the Dead Indians , featuring artists such as Dennis Hopper and Yoko Ono. [9] [10]

Their audio-visual composition Raw Material, Vol. 1–11 (1995), composed from their archive of hundreds of hours of footage, was exhibited throughout Europe. [11] [12] It showed interviews as well as landscapes on eleven monitors, with an equal emphasis on speech, pictures and sounds “in a new, free form of presentation,” showing pictures moving images on walls, presented on flat displays. [13]

Subsequently, Lohner and Carlson’s Active Images developed, first shown at the Galerie Springer Berlin in 2006. [14] According to Lohner, the idea “arose from our love of video photography and from our subsequent despair over the loss of these images when turning them into [an edited] film.” [15] Presented on flat displays, the works “blur the line between image and video.” [16]

Lohner Carlson’s media art has been exhibited worldwide, at venues such as the Centre Pompidou, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon, the National Visual Art Gallery of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur and the Mira Art Collection in Tokyo. [17] [18]

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References

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  2. ↑ "Van Carlson – Mode Records" . Retrieved 2021-04-29.
  3. ↑ "Van Theodore Carlson". IMDb. Retrieved 2021-04-29.
  4. ↑ "Van Carlson – Mode Records" . Retrieved 2021-04-29.
  5. ↑ "The Unblinking Eye: David Lynch and Mark Frost Chronicle America". International Documentary Association. 1990-10-01. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
  6. ↑ Lohner, Henning, Peefeeyatko (Documentary, Biography, Music), Pierre Boulez, John Cage, Matt Groening, Karlheinz Stockhausen, retrieved 2021-04-29
  7. ↑ "Van Carlson – Mode Records" . Retrieved 2021-04-29.
  8. ↑ "Review". Gramophone. Retrieved 2021-04-29.
  9. ↑ Lohner, Henning, The Revenge of the Dead Indians (Documentary, Music), Yves Bazillou, Michael Berger, Farid Chahboub, Noam Chomsky, retrieved 2021-04-29
  10. ↑ "The Revenge of the Dead Indians: In Memoriam ..." Die besten Filme aller Zeiten (in German). Retrieved 2021-04-29.
  11. ↑ "Lohner & Carlson 'raw material – portraits and landscapes I' on artnet". www.artnet.com. Retrieved 2021-04-29.
  12. ↑ "program". www.foro-artistico.de. Retrieved 2021-04-29.
  13. ↑ "program". www.foro-artistico.de. Retrieved 2021-04-29.
  14. ↑ "LOHNER CARLSON | GALERIE SPRINGER BERLIN". www.galeriespringer.de. Retrieved 2021-04-29.
  15. ↑ Lohner, Henning. "The Empress Of Forgotten Time" (PDF). Galerie Springer.
  16. ↑ "Lohner Carlson Biography – Lohner Carlson on artnet". www.artnet.com. Retrieved 2021-04-29.
  17. ↑ "Rencontre "4'33" portrait chinois - Hommage à John Cage". Centre Pompidou (in French). Retrieved 2021-04-29.
  18. ↑ "Lohner Carlson Exhibitions" (PDF). Galerie Springer.
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