Amber Boardman

May 14, 2009

20 Ways To Reach Me


My work is about the ways people communicate.
My work is about the obsession with affirming one’s own existence.
My work is about me.

I want to take great personal risks in the pursuit of personal transformation.
I want my work to be the evidence of this transformation.
I want my work to be generous.
I want my work to bring us closer.

2009 / video, music by Boardman, Beethoven, Mahler / duration 07:35

2009 / video, music by Boardman, Beethoven, Mahler / duration 07:35

Three Videos Below:

I Wish I Could See You

Voicemail

Physical Therapy

2008 / animated drawings, video, music - Wagner, Das Rheingold Prelude / duration 08:25

2008 / animated drawings, video, music - Wagner, Das Rheingold Prelude / duration 08:25

2008 / animated drawings, video, music - Wagner, Das Rheingold Prelude / duration 08:25

2008 / animated drawings, video, music - Wagner, Das Rheingold Prelude / duration 08:25

http://www.amberboardman.com

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2-D, Installation, Performance, Video by Amber Boardman

6 Responses to “Amber Boardman”
  1. Susan Richmond
    May 15th, 2009 at 10:55 pm

    Thanks for posting! I’m going to check out your videos right now.

    cheers,
    Susan

  2. JillianH
    May 20th, 2009 at 10:08 am

    Amber,

    I think your work raises some provocative questions about how communication technologies are shaping relationships between people, and it is often through relationships that one frames a notion of “self” ( this is an issue that artists like Nikki S. Lee have also taken up).

    I would like to learn more about your process. It seems that you collaborate with people and use their voices and recordings in the work.

    Also, how did you come to use music in the videos? Do you have a background of training in music?

    Best,

    Jillian

  3. Amber Boardman
    May 20th, 2009 at 12:19 pm

    Thanks Jillian!
    I’m not sure I can label what I’m doing with voicemails “collaborating”. I just save and log all of my messages and sometimes use them in my work. No one who calls me has ever been bothered by it yet thankfully.

    I wrote the music based on the feeling of what people were saying in their messages but, in some cases, also the note they were speaking. For example the person who said “I wish I could Sse you” mostly said these words in the notes of E and F so I based the root of the chords on E and F and built a song around them. I’m mostly self-taught with music but about a year ago I started to take some pretty serious theory/piano lessons to help realize some of my musical ideas.

    Thanks for watching/listening!

    Amber

  4. Anonymous
    May 21st, 2009 at 8:31 am

    Dear Amber,

    It’s great that you posted here!

    I especially like Textual Healing and where you’re going with sound.

    20 Ways to Reach Me provokes some relational aesthetics questions for me. Your statement is robotic, and your multiple identities are impenetrable. I expected to be able to click on those icons to find you. Is the work meant to be a straight graphic? Why not interactive/experiential?

    Look forward to reading you.

    Cheers!

    Cathy

  5. Amber Boardman
    May 21st, 2009 at 11:26 am

    Hi Cathy,

    Thanks for the comments!

    “20 Ways To Reach Me” actually exists as a stack of 8.5 x 11 sheets of paper that people can take if they like. It was meant to be a ridiculous business card to highlight the absurdity in how we communicate these days. We have so many ways to connect with each other but that it isn’t really connecting. There is no body, just ones and zeros. “I Wish I Could See You” and “Textual Healing” are also related to this idea.

    Thanks again! I wish I could see you!

    Amber

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