A photographic imagination

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Some bad news (2008)

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Embarkation
Text and images: Ron Diorio
Copyright 2009 Ron Diorio
Courtesy of Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art
phhfineart@phhfineart.com

Embarkation

In the great park
they passed the letter of introduction
to the little white girl.

He looked like St Francis of Assisi
however
the rape of Europa was still on his mind.

The two school boys were overcome
with hope,
love
and beauty.

Mares and foals,
a christening feast with the lady Marilyn
at the Lighthouse,
full bottles of reds on a moonlit beach.

And like her
Christina's world was
forged
gothic
and American.

A flag over the town hall,
a landscape with trees
and lovers
battling a storm off the harbour's mouth.

Dagmar
he left the library in Park street spilling into the basin
in which he washed his hands
while staring at Daisy
the great American nude
in the garden.

Then
the little pastry chef,
Saint Francis
and the bird descended

Their game was stalled.

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The video work that summarizes the years 2001-2008 as they came: fear, money, fidelity and art. Each piece is 90 seconds or less, a limit of the video publishing platform on Flickr. Copyright 2008 Ron Diorio

What I did during the war: Part 1 Fear
(01:06)

Copyright 2008 Ron Diorio

Images and Montage: Ron Diorio
Music: Souvenir de Porto Rico op 31 (Louis Morzan Gottschalk ) from Archvie.org
Words: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1940) from Archvie.org

What I did during the war; Part 2 Money
(01:30)

Copyright 2008 Ron Diorio

Images and Montage: Ron Diorio

Librivox recording
"The error of imaginary causes"
The Twilight of the Idols
by Friedrich Nietzsche.
Read by D.E. Wittkower
www.archive.org/details/the_twilight_of_the_idols_librivox

Other audio sample
The Psalters, Home for Refugees
www.archive.org/

What I did during the war, Part 3 The Surge (Sex)
(01:20)

Copyright 2008 Ron Diorio

What I did during the war, Part 4 Ragazzi di vita (Art)
(01:27)

Copyright 2008 Ron Diorio

Courtesy of Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art
www.phhfineart.com/

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Poegles project

Ongoing multimedia exploration images and spoken word performances of constructed texts based on Poegles. Poegles are poems made from Google search results.

A season of wants (2008)

Search term "I want"

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Penny candy (2008)

Search term "hometown"

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Some bad news (2008)

Search term "secrets"

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Night light (2008)

Search term "night light"

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About Ron Diorio
Ron Diorio is a web based artist working in multiple media including photography, video, spoken word and interactive applications. Ron has had three solo shows of his photographs, which have also been included in many group shows. Ron's work has been exhibited internationally and is currently represented by Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art in New York City (phhfineart.com) . He produced Zine TV (93-95), a DIY television series on the diversity and creativity of the self publishing community - the "zine scene" of the mid 90s. Ron's current video work focuses on virtuality and the "imitation of life" in the early 21st century. The work is presented through short personal essays weaving, spoken word, video, photography, Poegles, and found public forum
postings and other texts. Ron is VP for Product and Community Development for The Economist/Economist.com. He is a life long New Yorker and lives with his wife and two children in northern Manhattan.

Statement of work
I am a citizen artist and through the social web the audience and this body of work have found each other. This current video work extends my recent photographic explorations challenging the veracity of documentary practices through the ambiguity of place and persona, manipulation of media, low-fi production and social methods of distribution. The video links included in this submission include my most recent work produced and premiered online for the active online community audience involved with my work since 2004.

About the Poegles Project
The Poegles Project was started in 2008 as an exploration of the emerging dominance of meta data indexing, the organization of information and the machine prioritizion of those results. It attempts to re-describe the origination of narration and the assembly of visual and audio cues drawing on the notions of surrealist poetry, Burroughs cut-ups and the photo-cinema of Chris Marker.

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