This light and sound show at Artshouse was really interesting in its use of nostalgia (for me anyway) and modernity. Bring together rave culture and synths but in a really modern way that made a completely new spectacle.
Steve Reich
From all account, the inventor of the loop. It is interesting when researching him the evolution of the loop - from records to master tape loops to digital loops. This guy is the king of them and brings it to a whole other level. You are trapped in the loop but it also creates a whole new reality out of the compressing of time - especially when listening to it. The nuances of recording that would otherwise be overlooked are accentuated.
https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/78wa9q/original-creators-experimental-composer-steve-reich
Pierre Manzoni
The Art of Potential
I’m exploring the idea of potential in digital objects. Today’s technology will inevitably become obsolete. When it does (completely), it will be full of information, without the technology surrounding it, leaving us unable to access it.
Manzoni’s Merde and Line capture this idea. Using older technology (a line/paper) makes it a time capsule that will be always accessible (presuming it's in there), however opening it will render it worthless.
Ryan Trecartin
Present sci-fi - An adjacent present, rather than a future or a past - future and past are fluid.
This guy takes a lot of unpacking… but this interview has really helped me to understand some of his work and it is very inspiring in his thinking of internet culture and the world. I was really interested in his idea of present sci-fi, making a tangent of time through film.
Nam Jun Paik
“Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body’s new membrane of existence.” - Nam June Paik
Jackson Eaton
Eaton take selfies and using google face recognition technology, translates them into fragmented images from the world wide web. I love the involvement of the google AI bots in this process and demonstrating an interesting way of literally translating an image using technology. It really makes me think of face recognition technology and translation as the new evolution of artists’ media/technology.
Zbigniew Rybczyncki
Tango beautifully depicts ideas about repetition, loop, filmic space/time/spacetime.
As discussed by Walden, the ‘trap’ that the loop creates is perfectly demonstrated here, however instead of the audience becoming trapped in the repetition, each character in the film becomes trapped in their own individual loops. This expands on the idea of filmic spacetime that I have been researching. Not only is the primary (single shot) and secondary (editing/montage) ideas of spacetime [Dark Energy, Skerry] played with, but also the individual timelines of the individual characters within a primary timeline - creating a third idea of spacetime.
The technical prowess of this film is outstanding, so impressive coming from a background of digital film effects that would find this difficult, let alone with analogue techniques.
I like that this is steeped in ritual the everyday, something that I am interested in my own work - especially in the evolution of this to include reliance mobile device/technology.
Soda_jerk
I saw on their instagram a really cool effect using Google Earth which inspired me to make a better map of my current project, which just used regular google maps in 2D… I didn’t realise technology for google has become so insane and really want to involve this in my project that involves the discarded colleciton of souvenirs and maps from the old lady next door to me.
