A student from a large Midwestern University receives an unusual e-mail
message in the Logic Lab. The communication concerns the nature of time, the
tango singer Carlos Gardel, the humorist Will Rogers and contains an offer to
cruise Route 66 on the Web. Jorge Luis Borges tells us, "Reality favors
symmetries and slight anachronisms." A Refutation of Time provides some
relief for wary inter-net travelers who might believe that they are loosing
their faculties. However, Dan Boord, Greg Durbin, and Luis Valdovino have
constructed an informal fallacy which proves the Real is the Irrational.
Meanwhile, Borges' meditation on time is found wandering the World Wide
Web. The Author of Don Quixote turns out to be "Flaco" Jimenez, and Argentina
has a web site that boasts of famous people that, "Argentina is not always
proud of, but are famous nonetheless."
"The artists look at the triumph of information over materiality. Along
that artifact of mobility, Route 66, roadside diners incite the senses to taste
and smell. But elsewhere, in cyberspace, Borges is overrun by context." - Steve
Seid, The Pacific Film Archive, Berkely California.
Luis Valdovino: MFA from the University of Illinois in 1987.
Currently he is Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Colorado,
Boulder, CO.
Dan Boord: MFA from the University of California, San Diego in 1980.
Currently he is an Associate Professor at the Ohio State University in
Columbus, OH.
Gregory C. Durbin: Currently a tenured associate professor at San
Diego State University School of Communication and a visiting associate
professor at the University of California Visual Arts Department. He worked in
film and video production since 1970.
USA 1997
Beta, col., 8:16
Director, Cut: Dan Boord, Greg Durbin, Luis Valdovino
Screenplay, Camera: Dan Boord, Luis Valdovino
Music: Flaco, Jimenez, Bob Wills, J.S. Bach
Actor: Michelle Cuomo
