3Speed2000
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3Speed 2000 documents the journey of three ‘transportation pioneers’ aboard the first high speed train in America, Amtrak’s Acela Express. The video is part of an ongoing performance based piece in which I strive to be the first to traverse notable large-scale transportation systems. For each of these milestones I adopt a different personality. Drawn from literary and historical sources, these personae celebrate the romance of explorations past. Clad in matching flight suits and helmets, the 3Speed 2000 trio radiates a bravura and optimism that recalls the glamour of early space travel.
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Ravi Jain (their other films)
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| Country: USA |
Copyright Year: 2000 |
| Original Format: Video |
Color Type: Color |
| Sound Type: Magnetic Stereo |
Length: 00:12:14 |
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Aspect Magazine
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COMMENTATOR BIOGRAPHY:
James Hull was born in 1960 in Atlanta, Georgia. (He was raised during a time punctuated by Moon Landings, the advent of Color Television, the Vietnam Nam war and Muscle Cars. Drinking was legal at 18 which meant seniors in High School cold Legally buy beer and MD 20/20) Drawing and painting interests in high school led to a combination of science and artistic interests in college where in 1984 he graduated from the University of Georgia, in Athens ( just after the B-52Â’s left Athens and at the same time as REMÂ’s first 45 rpm) with an interdisciplinary degree in Biomedical Illustration.
A trip to Italy in 1983 for classes during the summer encouraged an exploration of bronze casting and early Etruscan bronzes. After working in a commercial gallery and frame shop and then in the Design center in Atlanta for four years he enrolled in Graduate School at Georgia State University in sculpture.
While in graduate school, Hull arranged use of a plow factory for an annual sculpture exhibit that included four area colleges which continued for four years. In 1994 Hull opened the Block Candy Art Gallery across the street from the Nexus Contemporary Art Center where he worked as installer and preparator. The Gallery exhibited month long solo exhibits for over two years. Hull worked as installer at The High Museum of Art, The Arts Festival of Atlanta, Fay Gold Gallery, Eve Mannes Gallery and started working as an independent curator and worked as an artist exhibiting sculpture in the Hunstville MuseumÂ’s Red Clay Survey and regional gallery exhibits.
Hull opened a second alternative space in 1995 in two office building lobbies at The ICA, Boston and currently runs the Boston Drawing Project at the Bernard Toale Gallery. Hull has written articles and reviews for Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Art Papers and ArtsMedia and teaches at Boston University, The Art Institute of Boston and the Rhode Island School of Design.
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This film has never been screened
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