A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Point Pleasant, New Jersey, USA
Zach Blas is an artist and writer based in London. His work engages technology and politics and has been exhibited internationally at venues including IMA Brisbane; Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City; Whitechapel Gallery, London; and ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. Currently, Blas is a lecturer in the department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths.
Director:
2015 Contra-Internet Inversion Practice #1: Constituting an Outside (Utopian Plagiarism)
2015 Contra-Internet Inversion Practice #2: Social Media Exodus (Call and Response)
2016 Contra-Internet Inversion Practice #3: Modeling Paranodal Space
2016 Facial Weaponization Communiqué: Fag Face
2018 Contra-Internet: Jubilee 2033
???? i’m here to learn so :))))))
Writer:
2015 Contra-Internet Inversion Practice #1: Constituting an Outside (Utopian Plagiarism)
2015 Contra-Internet Inversion Practice #2: Social Media Exodus (Call and Response)
2016 Contra-Internet Inversion Practice #3: Modeling Paranodal Space
2016 Facial Weaponization Communiqué: Fag Face
2018 Contra-Internet: Jubilee 2033
???? i’m here to learn so :))))))
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.