Scott Kildall - Career

Career

From 2006-2008, Kildall produced “Video Portraits,” a video piece where Kildall asks strangers to pose for a photograph but instead shoots video. The purpose was to record the act of constructing a pose for recorded memory. In 2006, Kildall produced Future Memories, a single-channel video work that uses in-between moments from iconic Hollywood movies. The clips are black-and-white with an ambient soundtrack, which result in a feeling of displaced familiarity as the viewer registers the clips on a subconscious level. In 2007, Kildall’s video works were displayed in his first solo show, Imaginary Souvenirs, at Mission 17 gallery in San Francisco.

The socio-historical impacts of media play a role in some of his creations. For example, his 2007 piece,“Uncertain Location,” recreates the Apollo 11 lunar landing in response to an announcement by NASA that it was unable to find the original tapes of the event.

In 2008, he was part of the Mixed Realities exhibition in Boston at Huret & Spector Gallery, curated by Jo-Anne Green from Turbulence.org. In the same year, he exhibited "Hand Work", a performance video based on a film by Andy Warhol at The Textile Museum of Canada. Kildall created “After Thought” in 2010, a portable personality testing kit which uses a brainwave-reading headset to test stress and relaxation levels with a customized video for each participant. In 2010, Kildall also created “Playing Duchamp,” a chess computer that plays as if it were French artist Marcel Duchamp. Kildall used the recorded matches of Duchamp to mimic the artist’s chess style.