Hollywood And Vine (2005)

AudioVisualizing Noise/A Noisonomy of Protests

Is there liberty in noise? The Occupy Wall Street movement is, to my knowledge and perhaps historically, the first decentralized, leaderless movement with an indeterminate power structure and uncertain, evolving democratic form and function. Perhaps it is pure democracy that begets complex, chaotic or noisy structures that can seem incoherent (or branded as such by detractors), however if we look at such things in nature, such as the interaction networks of ants, or the 100 billion or so neurons in the brain, we find these complex, diffuse, and emergent systems work well.

Hollywood and Vine (2005) is a "noise video," with footage I filmed during the war protests as the US invaded Iraq in 2003 while I lived in Hollywood. The protests led me to think about noise in communication and to play with audio-visual-movement form and touch on elements of abstract documentary. Hollywood and Vine asks-- how does one differentiate signal and noise in society? The noise video asks, at what point does the protest of millions become signal from a background of noise as it builds to a crescendo of the arrests of protesters?

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Film & Animation

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• Hollywood
• War
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• Noise
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• Street
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• Politics
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