as an artist it has become essential to find means to connect directly with a broader public, one-to-one, free of any obligation, mediation or justification ... and preferably in more public and openly shared space. i came to appreciate YouTube, as such a place.

tiny video works began to emerge from a growing pool of raw footage, captured in response to happenings and sensed truths in the incidentals of daily encounter.

these i began to call MICROVIDS, and between 2008 and 2018 some 97 were created.

largely enticed by the moment, any raw footage was typically captured on a mobile phone [successively ... Nokia N95, N97, iPhone 4s and iPhone 7] and edited towards a MICROVID using iMovie.

they all reside at MICROVIDS on YouTube, their unconditional depository …

title: MICROVIDS

author: GARY DEIRMENDJIAN

ISBN: does not apply

format: limp bound cover

pages: 99 pp

dimensions: 110 x 40mm

publisher: MANU ET MENTE [self published]

published/released in Australia: December 2017

design: GARY DEIRMENDJIAN

print management: RICHARD CRAMPTON - Dark Star Digital, Sydney