Conor Bateman
@norbateman.co
video making / film programming
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Conor Bateman
@norbateman.co
· Mar 23
First book of the year done, Mary Robison's Why Did I Ever - sharp and funny, intermittently gutting; a novel of fits and starts seemed fitting to start on.
2025 reading log
oh cheers, that's so nice to hear
November 23, 2025 at 12:22 AM
oh cheers, that's so nice to hear
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I had to capture the intro to GP mode because it's just. this is how you fucking DO it
November 18, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I had to capture the intro to GP mode because it's just. this is how you fucking DO it
I recently copped some HD 600s at half price and the most notable 'oh god these are great' moment so far has been listening to the latest Stereolab double a-side
November 17, 2025 at 5:27 AM
I recently copped some HD 600s at half price and the most notable 'oh god these are great' moment so far has been listening to the latest Stereolab double a-side
This one's Charisma, right?
October 30, 2025 at 4:44 AM
This one's Charisma, right?
really enjoying the new CV Vision album, it's like scanning through stations late at night, pausing intermittently to catch a fuzzy psych rock track: cvvision.bandcamp.com/album/releas...
Release The Beast, by CV Vision
14 track album
cvvision.bandcamp.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:07 AM
really enjoying the new CV Vision album, it's like scanning through stations late at night, pausing intermittently to catch a fuzzy psych rock track: cvvision.bandcamp.com/album/releas...
well read - you've correctly identified a situation
you're well read - you've read a lot of books
well red - an Englishman describing a fire extinguisher
you're well read - you've read a lot of books
well red - an Englishman describing a fire extinguisher
October 24, 2025 at 1:09 AM
well read - you've correctly identified a situation
you're well read - you've read a lot of books
well red - an Englishman describing a fire extinguisher
you're well read - you've read a lot of books
well red - an Englishman describing a fire extinguisher
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The second LaserDisc Rip today is rarer than the first, and also is by Japanese City Pop artist Tats Yamashita.
Early 90s. New York City. Real people. A single day documented from morning to midnight. Christmas comes early this year:
Christmas in New York.
archive.org/details/chri...
Early 90s. New York City. Real people. A single day documented from morning to midnight. Christmas comes early this year:
Christmas in New York.
archive.org/details/chri...
October 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The second LaserDisc Rip today is rarer than the first, and also is by Japanese City Pop artist Tats Yamashita.
Early 90s. New York City. Real people. A single day documented from morning to midnight. Christmas comes early this year:
Christmas in New York.
archive.org/details/chri...
Early 90s. New York City. Real people. A single day documented from morning to midnight. Christmas comes early this year:
Christmas in New York.
archive.org/details/chri...
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The first LaserDisc upload today: a video art City Pop love letter to the American Southwest. A collaboration between two Japanese pop artists in the 1980s.
Tatsuro Yamashita & Eizin Suzuki: Southward Bound, translated and captured on a Domesday Duplicator.
archive.org/details/tats...
Tatsuro Yamashita & Eizin Suzuki: Southward Bound, translated and captured on a Domesday Duplicator.
archive.org/details/tats...
October 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The first LaserDisc upload today: a video art City Pop love letter to the American Southwest. A collaboration between two Japanese pop artists in the 1980s.
Tatsuro Yamashita & Eizin Suzuki: Southward Bound, translated and captured on a Domesday Duplicator.
archive.org/details/tats...
Tatsuro Yamashita & Eizin Suzuki: Southward Bound, translated and captured on a Domesday Duplicator.
archive.org/details/tats...
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I wrote about my five days in Israeli prison for the LRB. Remember with every paragraph that this is the cosseted version of the experience; it is infinitely worse for Palestinians www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
Naoise Dolan | ‘You’re here now’
The steel handcuffs the Israeli guard locked on me were ‘Tri-Max Made in England’. Clanking mine to the beat, I sang...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I wrote about my five days in Israeli prison for the LRB. Remember with every paragraph that this is the cosseted version of the experience; it is infinitely worse for Palestinians www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
(this is primarily a response to Text Publishing's habit of releasing novellas as c-format paperbacks with a needlessly large font)
October 17, 2025 at 1:28 AM
(this is primarily a response to Text Publishing's habit of releasing novellas as c-format paperbacks with a needlessly large font)
my related belief is that the c-format paperback should be outlawed
My strongest book-related belief is that the paperback should come first and then the hardback after for people who want a fancy edition.
October 17, 2025 at 1:25 AM
my related belief is that the c-format paperback should be outlawed
Her memoir and her other novel don't fit that bill, though (the latter is hyper aware of that precise sort of pigeon-holing). Finding this framing very strange (I've not read the new book)
October 10, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Her memoir and her other novel don't fit that bill, though (the latter is hyper aware of that precise sort of pigeon-holing). Finding this framing very strange (I've not read the new book)
Transit really is the highlight of the trilogy. I bounced off Outline also, loved Transit and found Kudos a lightly amusing victory lap.
September 30, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Transit really is the highlight of the trilogy. I bounced off Outline also, loved Transit and found Kudos a lightly amusing victory lap.
real good movie. if the cinema sequence appeals in particular, this may also appeal: vimeo.com/332108492
Runtime (2019)
A video work commissioned for Prototype, an online Australian video art project curated by Lauren Carroll Harris.
vimeo.com
September 27, 2025 at 6:51 AM
real good movie. if the cinema sequence appeals in particular, this may also appeal: vimeo.com/332108492
smashed through Easy Delivery Co. this week, impeccable vibe, great arcade rally-style handling
September 25, 2025 at 12:23 AM
smashed through Easy Delivery Co. this week, impeccable vibe, great arcade rally-style handling
gameObject Permanence explores lost, cancelled, abandoned and shut down video games, from less-storied entries in the Sim franchise and a Superman clone for the NES to a window into the final day of The Matrix Online.
Game Worlds runs until early February 2026: www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/gam...
Game Worlds runs until early February 2026: www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/gam...
September 18, 2025 at 6:53 AM
gameObject Permanence explores lost, cancelled, abandoned and shut down video games, from less-storied entries in the Sim franchise and a Superman clone for the NES to a window into the final day of The Matrix Online.
Game Worlds runs until early February 2026: www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/gam...
Game Worlds runs until early February 2026: www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/gam...
My new video work, gameObject Permanence, is now on display in Melbourne as part of the massive @acmimuseum.bsky.social exhibition Game Worlds, curated by @astroblob.bsky.social + Bethan Johnson: www.acmi.net.au/works/125360...
September 18, 2025 at 6:53 AM
My new video work, gameObject Permanence, is now on display in Melbourne as part of the massive @acmimuseum.bsky.social exhibition Game Worlds, curated by @astroblob.bsky.social + Bethan Johnson: www.acmi.net.au/works/125360...
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Game Worlds opens this Thursday. An insane sentence to type out.
September 16, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Game Worlds opens this Thursday. An insane sentence to type out.
the chaka khan section is fever dream territory
September 7, 2025 at 12:25 PM
the chaka khan section is fever dream territory
the recent 'songs in reverse' episode of pop.soil is proving to be a very cathartic sunday night listen: www.nts.live/shows/lyra-p...
pop.soil: in reverse 26th August 2025
Playing Electronica, Experimental, Modern Classical, Minimalism. pop.soil is Lyra Pramuk’s bimonthly series exploring catharsis, transformation, and healing through sonic storytelling.
www.nts.live
September 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
the recent 'songs in reverse' episode of pop.soil is proving to be a very cathartic sunday night listen: www.nts.live/shows/lyra-p...
From the same team as Two Minutes but even lighter (though very charming) is River.
Perhaps not quite the same vibe but incredible timeloop/ perceived timeloop films from Iranian filmmmaker Shahram Mokri - Fish & Cat, and Invasion.
Perhaps not quite the same vibe but incredible timeloop/ perceived timeloop films from Iranian filmmmaker Shahram Mokri - Fish & Cat, and Invasion.
August 23, 2025 at 8:53 AM
From the same team as Two Minutes but even lighter (though very charming) is River.
Perhaps not quite the same vibe but incredible timeloop/ perceived timeloop films from Iranian filmmmaker Shahram Mokri - Fish & Cat, and Invasion.
Perhaps not quite the same vibe but incredible timeloop/ perceived timeloop films from Iranian filmmmaker Shahram Mokri - Fish & Cat, and Invasion.
for whatever reason the verse vocals over that instrumental call to mind Scritti Politti
August 23, 2025 at 8:39 AM
for whatever reason the verse vocals over that instrumental call to mind Scritti Politti
saw rRoxymore play at the Royal Exhibition Building tonight. entrancing stuff, though it did occur to me that you could describe some of the sound as an ambient dub take on Max Richter's Blue Notebooks
August 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
saw rRoxymore play at the Royal Exhibition Building tonight. entrancing stuff, though it did occur to me that you could describe some of the sound as an ambient dub take on Max Richter's Blue Notebooks