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Feedback foetus

A live camera is pointed at the screen. A video plays on the screen. The video stops.

When all media is ceased to be played and no longer exists, all that is left is the stream. The screen shows the live camera feedback, changing, dwindling, or growing. The audience must nurture the feedback and keep it alive. It is no longer the video we were watching, but it is something born of it’s transmission. This is when video becomes bacterial and organic – directly affected by it’s environment.

2010
05/03
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Quarantine

Within the archive they have a special room, intriguingly named ‘the vinegar room‘. This is where film that has not been properly preserved is kept as it starts to slowly break down producing a kind of ‘vinegary’ smell. The film has to be kept separate from the rest of the archive as this chemical breakdown is somewhat contagious to other films, which makes me think of it in terms of bacteria or disease. The films in the vinegar room are effectively in quarantine.

What does film look like when it breaks down? Can they be presented in quarantine? on a separate screen? Can this screen affect (infect) the main screen? How can I model bacterial infection of moving image? Can this process develop with each screening?

Is there a way that the elements of film I show change irreparably with each screening?

2010
05/03
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