Roy Blumenthal discussing Han Hoogerbrugge (low-res)

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.

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: I've just uploaded a much higher quality version of the file. It'll go live soon, and then you won't have to watch this shockingly low resolution version. Thanks for your patience and indulgence.

UPDATE 15 April 2007: I've uploaded a much better quality version of the movie. It's at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAAVImkWxXs.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• doherty
• blumenthal
• hoogerbrugge
• art

[royblumenthal]

Damn. The compression really sucks on this thing. Damn damn damn. I'll have to try and find a way to make a higher quality version.

Blue skies

love

Roy

[ePhilosopher]

Gupta's lost in the city, it's just your lient cannot find neurotica by rush, in the self-portraitures, also carrie bradshaw, also um, biloxi blues is not really a flogging of robots

[turtlestack]

I've been a fan of Han since 1998 and even now, nearly 10 years later his work is still impressive, frightening, beautiful and insightful. I believe he is one of the most influential artists currently working online.