Roy Blumenthal discussing Han Hoogerbrugge

This five-minute piece is part of my course requirement for a Masters in Digital Arts at Wits University for Christo Doherty. (Course -- WSOA 7007: Critical Debates in Digital Art and Culture.)

In it, I discuss the 'Modern Living/Neurotica' series of interactive Flash animations by Nederlands artist, Han Hoogerbrugge. The series is at http://ml.hoogerbrugge.com.

My final paper is at http://schmucknews.blogspot.com/2007/06/interface-as-artifice-interface-as.html. I received 75% for it. I'm pretty happy with that.

I've intentionally made this piece incredibly low-tech. I love the clash between high-tech and low-tech.

I used a low-end web cam and microphone to record it. I used Camtasia to record the screen-captures. And I used Adobe Premiere Pro to make an AVI movie of it. I then went back to Camtasia to produce a very small version of it as an FLV file.

Turns out YouTube doesn't ACCEPT FLV files, even though that's the damned format they PLAY them in. Dammit.

So then I had to make a NEW playout, this time as a very low quality 38 meg AVI file.

[UPDATE 11 April 2007:] That made a TERRRRRRIBLE YouTube viewing experience. The resolution made it unwatchable. So now I've made a version that's 84 megs. I'll give that a try.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• doherty
• blumenthal
• hoogerbrugge
• art

[royblumenthal]

Heheeheheheeh! Thanks, Aaron. Yeah... I wanted my analysis to be a little bit analysable too. I love this work of his.

Blue skies

love

Roy

[royblumenthal]

Heheheeh! Thanks very much indeed, CaptainHowdy!

I reckon my vid quality will improve over time. I made this one using a low-end webcam, an old Logitech. I was actually going for a low-tech look and feel.

But I think the encoding is really quite poor. And that's more than likely due to a lack of technical expertise on my part. That'll ramp up once I've trascended the ole learning curve.

Blue skies

love

Roy

[SThoogie]

Ive watched alot of his work, he is a relative of mine (hence my screne name) but i never meet him my dad's family moved from the netherlands after ww2. fyi you pronounced our last name wrong but don't worry everyone does lol

[aaron1uk]

Nice, I feel into his trap i looked through everyone :P, as captinhowdy said, was insightfull, and with you changing locations all the time just as random as the piece you were talking about.

[CaptianHowdy]

cool view on him I really found it insightful, just fix that shit video quality