Mounted Horse Men is being released by
open-Player in an edition of 20. A USB stick embedded into a broken aspen branch contains forty short video clips of men imposing order on the natural world. The order of the clips is are reconfigured by open-PLAYER software each time the stick is inserted into a USB drive, revealing new meta-narratives.
open-Player is commissioning artists videos for small editions to be released on USB sticks utilizing their new compression and playback software. Each edition includes a video project and a USB enclosure designed or handmade by the artist. open-Player's playback software enables videos to play automatically upon insertion into a USB port. open-Player will also distribute an unlimited iPhone edition of videos in the series.
Mounted Horse Men is available through
open-Player and
Art Metropole.