June 23rd, 2010 - Cybernetics / Servomechanism section

5 Comments

  • Michael Demers (June 26th, 2010 at 8:49 pm)

    Andrew — this video is meant to be shown with the other and the
    text documents in the exhibition?

    • res008 (June 27th, 2010 at 3:51 am)

      Hello Michael, This is just one section of the video – the same
      video that the other sections I have uploaded are from. When the
      video is shown on its own (as in the upcoming TINT Arts Lab
      exhibition), a few text documents are necessary to contextualize
      the “video task” within the whole project and to explain the whole
      project. But the video can also be presented amongst all the
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      Akhil and I have done.

  • Michael Demers (June 29th, 2010 at 6:55 pm)

    So that I understand fully — there will be one video piece and
    miscellaneous other material which comprise the exhibition?

    I ask this because it feels like there is a different aesthetic
    at work in this video (or rather, this segment of the one video).
    If there is truly just one video, this would not, in my mind, be
    a problem. If, however, you were going to have multiple videos
    playing at the same time, I would be interested in knowing how
    many other videos and what aesthetic they exhibited. I think that
    this video (or rather, this segment) is different enough in
    visual organization to warrant either a leveling or a
    multiplicity of style… Keeping in mind this entire paragraph is
    moot if there is just one video to be shown…

    • res008 (June 29th, 2010 at 7:24 pm)

      Hello Michael, Thanks again. All video sections that I upload are
      part of one long video – a single channel work. I think you’re
      getting at one of my main problems with the video thus far – that
      there are different aesthetic expressions at play in the various
      sections. The introductory section (the first one I posted) was
      made way earlier than the other sections I have posted. A lot of my
      upcoming posts will have an aesthetic more similar to these later
      sections – with the moving windows, the text-to-speech voice, the
      revealed lines of movement. I feel as though I should make the
      original section more like these new ones, but I really like how
      the original section feels, flows, functions. One possible excuse I
      have to keep it as is is that it deals with more personal issues,
      while the newer sections are more historical/theoretical/general. I
      also have a section that covers Akhil’s family military history,
      and I’m thinking that won’t have moving windows etc., perhaps even
      no imagery at all – just Akhil’s voice. For now I plan for that to
      be the last section of the video.

  • Greg J. Smith (July 6th, 2010 at 8:32 pm)

    The tone and pacing of the segments does vary. Maybe you could
    have some kind of common interstitial that bridges every pair of
    segments — your own test pattern as it were. This would provide
    the viewer a common frame of reference that would tie the entire
    longer piece together.

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