Frédérique Santune - A.u.t.o.m.n.e. / Autumn : renew

A.u.t.o.m.n.e. / Autumn the performance was a collaboration between Frédérique Santune, 33db and myself. My contribution was the software which is a vocal interface to the video that plays through it. Talking to the software modifies the video and it's playback in real time.

A.u.t.o.m.n.e. / Autumn the performance, deals with the genesis of the graphic video. It proposes a journey in time. The voice distorts the images, as if searching to describe the process it erases bit by bit the memory of making them.


:: Cinema - 11/03/08 ::

The majority of cinema as a form seeks to:

1. capture ideas and impressions of the spaces and places we inhabit or
2. visualise those we can't.

The former of these, representation, has been more dominant throughout cinema's history. The lens has in effect become a means of capturing our 'reality', allowing us to store and later reproduce sights and sounds to be replayed as a substitute for personal memories.

With the arrival of computing and it's now widespread use within cinema we see the latter begin to take dominance. Cinema as representation is changing to cinema as simulation, creating an era more important than the transition from silent to sound or from black and white to colour. Cinema has the possibility to become a form without any necessarily inferred referent, it is known, quantifiable (pixels) and so can be modified, abstracted, constructed in numerous ways. It's method of production can be improved, changed or even reconceived allowing it's authors to work as never before. Cinema arrives at the end of an era with promise of a new one enabling it to become immersive, live, participative, interactive, navigable, recombinatory, distributed, networked, coded etc.

On March 11th 2008 Open Ear (http://openear.wordpress.com/) hosted an event curated by Garrett Lynch (http://www.asquare.org/) entitled Cinema presenting performances and experimental films on this theme.

Video by Sebastian Robinson.

Category:

Film & Animation

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