Les LeVeque is an artist based in New York who works with digital and analog electronic technology. His work includes single and multi-channel videos and video/computer-based installations. LeVeque's work uses algorithmic structures, statistically distributed elements, experimentation with the boundaries of interfaces, and provides new views of existing narratives. In 2014 he is a member of the faculty and co-chair of Film and Video at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College.
Early life and education
LeVeque holds an MFA from Syracuse University with a concentration in Video.
In 2014, Les LeVeque's creations are videos which combine and electronically modify appropriated media and filmed social situations to provoke physical, intellectual and emotional response from the viewers. LeVeque employs, in his work, algorithms and computer interface mixed with classical Hollywood films, appropriations of political broadcasts and advertisements, using new technology to provide an alternative view of cinema and to highlight political issues regarding media. The algorithms produce a visual experience that is not present in the original films.
Traders Leaving the Exchange, A Guard and the Street. 2011, 36 minutes, color, stereo, aspect ratio 4:3Workers Leaving the Factory – Ten Days that Shook The World. Downloaded, repeatedly recompressed and reversed. 2011, 24 minutes, color, stereo, aspect ratio 16:9Communists Like Us. 2010, 3:28 minutes, black and white, stereo, aspect ratio 4:3 Distributed by Video Data Bankas the waves play along with an invisible spine (the workers die). 2010, 10:40 minutes, black and white, stereo, aspect ratio 16:9 :Distributed by Video Data Bankwhite and fifteen movies starring Charlton Heston 2010, 15 minutes, color, stereo, aspect ratio 16:9Distributed by Video Data Bank
a little girl dreams of a new pluralism meanwhile the old war continues V.1. 2009, 67 minutes, black and white, stereo, aspect ratio 16:9a little girl dreams of a new pluralism meanwhile the old war continues V.2. 2009, 67 minutes, black and white, stereo, aspect ratio 16:9 Distributed by Video Data Bankstammering forward backward GIANT. 2008, 17:40 minutes, color, stereo, aspect ratio 16:9 Distributed by Video Data BankThree Songs of Lenin (like we loved him). 2008, 10:49 minutes, black and white, stereo, aspect ratio 4:3 Distributed by Video Data BankUnsung Musicals (Opening numbers) 2005–2008, silent, color A four channel video installation16xohwhatabeautifulmornin. 37 minutes16xthehillsarealivewiththesoundofmusic 71 minutes32xtwolittlegirlsfromlittlerock. 42 minutes32xnewyorknewyork. 150 minutes Represented by KS Art, New YorkRepeating The End. 2006, color, stereo A three-channel video and three mp3 player installationBeginning. 80 minutesMiddle. 80 minutesEnd. 80 minutes Represented by KS Art, New YorkMemorial Stadium Slow Death (The full torture of death speed)x16. 2005, 5 minutes, color, stereo,Distributed as part of the Electronic Re-mix Project
Dramatically Repeating Lawrence of Arabia. 2004, 14:43 minutes, color, stereo Distributed by Video Data BankAutoCraving 15. 2004, 7:30 minutes, color, stereoDoubling Forbidden Planet. 2003, 99 minutes, color, stereo, Represented by KS Art, New YorkNotes From The Underground. 2003, 4:44 minutes, color, stereo Distributed by Video Data BankStrained Andromeda Strain. 2002, 6:55 minutes, color, stereo Distributed by Video Data BankPulse pharma phantasm 2002, 6:16 minutes, color, stereo Distributed by Video Data BankAstronauts Trip. A single channel video installation 2002, 7:00 minutes, color, stereoMister Speaker. Perry Bard and Les LeVeque 2002, 3:00 minutes, audio projectStutter the Searchers. 2001, 12:15 minutes, color, stereo Distributed by Video Data BankRed Green Blue Gone with the Wind. 2001, 11:45 minutes, color, stereo Distributed by Video Data BankBackwards Birth of a Nation. 2000, 13 minutes, black and white, stereo Distributed by Video Data Bank4 Vertigo 2000, 9 minutes, color, stereo Distributed by Video Data Bank4 Vertigo (a 4 channel video installation)4 Vertigo (a web project)2 Spellbound. 1999, 7:30 minutes, black and white, stereo Distributed by Video Data BankA Song From The Cultural Revolution. 1998, 5 minutes, color, stereo Distributed by Video Data Bankflight. 1998, 7 minutes, color, stereo Distributed by Video Data Bankflight (a four-channel video installation)Encoded Facial Gestures, #1, #2, #3, #4. 1997, 7:30 minutes, color, stereo Distributed by Video Data BankDissing D.A.R.E: education as spectacle. Les LeVeque and Diane Nerwen 1997, 6 minutes, color, stereo Distributed by Video Data BankIs It Love (#2). A six-channel video installation. 1997, black and white, silentThorazine Rebel. Daniella Dooling and Les LeVeque 1997, 8:22, color, stereoQuartet. A 4-channel inter-active sound installation 1997Is It Love. An inter-active multi-channel video installation1996
You Kept Our Rendezvous. A ten-channel inter-active sound installation 1996the free space of the commodity. 1995, 2:52 minutes, color, stereo Distributed by Video Data BankKEPT. Les LeVeque and Diane Nerwen 1995, 1:52 minutes, black and white, color, stereoGASP. Les LeVeque and Diane Nerwen 1993, 13 minutes, color, stereoPREEXISTING CONDITIONS. Les LeVeque and Diane Nerwen. 1992, 9:30 minutes, color, stereo Distributed by V TapeUntitled. A multi-channel kinetic video installation. 1992Noisy Insignificance. John Knecht and Les LeVeque A ten-channel video installationMore Questions Concerning Technology. A multi-channel kinetic video installation. 1991THE WARDEN THREW A PARTY. Diane Nerwen and Les LeVeque 1991, 6:42 minutes, color, stereo Distributed by V TapeLIGHT SWEET CRUDE. Les LeVeque and Diane Nerwen 1991, 11:34 minutes, color, stereo Distributed by V TapeSome Questions Concerning Technology. A multi-channel kinetic video installation 1990GENERAL EDUCATION Lesson 1: Partnerships. 1990, 2:34 minutes, color, stereoFREDDIE BRICE PAINTS TWO PAINTINGS. Les LeVeque and Kerry Schuss 1990, 22:30 minutes, color, stereo, 22:30 ::Represented by KS Art, New York