Abstraction, chromatic digital glitches and monochromatic minimalism: a journey through microworlds of electronic textures and rhythmic form.
The videoworks in this collection are particularly concerned with digitally mediated form, structure and material. Computer processing forges new aesthetic forms, non-linear editing facilitates complex rhythmic structure from minimal input, use and misuse of computer technology produces brutalist abstract animation. Sound and image in symbiotic relationship, sharing electronic digital source, or structured by common processes.
Quadrangle
Philip Sanderson
3 mins, UK, 2005
Pixellated quadrilateral autochoreography triggered by randomized combinations of musical fragments.
.airE
Maia Gusberti
sound: Stefan Németh
5 mins, Austria, 2001
The everyday abstraction of movement: taking a ride for a line.
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reMI
3 mins, Austria/Netherlands, 2003
Scraps of arcane catholic images collide with frenetic digital glitch materialism.
the_future_of_human_containment
Michaela Schwentener
sound: Pure
4 mins, Austria, 2002
Blurred movement in monochromatic abstract motion defies decipherment or definition.
blinq
Billy Roisz
sound: Burkhard Stangl, Akoasma Bib, Boris Hauf, Sachiko M., Martin Siewert, Christof Kurzmann, Toshimura Nakamura, Dieb13, Werner Dafeldecker, El
7 mins, Austria, 2002
Manipulated electronic feedback image loops desynched from originating soundtrack sources.
Card 4
sue.k.
9 mins, Australia, 2002
4-camera/4-handed card game, looping back and forth in rhythmic structure.
Colour Bars
Simon Payne
8 mins, UK, 2004
Colour bars ordinarily form a constant test signal image that is used to calibrate video equipment.
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sound: Radian
5 mins, Austria, 2002
The striated grid as urban positioning device made smooth through a disorienteering horizontal glide.
Retentions 1 – 4
Fred Szymanski
19 mins, USA, 2000
Random synthesising processes and micro patterns decompose spatial movement and environmental sound into complex convulsive abstract patterns.
tst.02
Bas van Koolwijk
5 mins, Netherlands, 2000
Digitally re-modelled video disturbances, audio translations of video signals form the soundtrack.