Thursday, March 8, 2007

The Quicktime Archive

MELTING


VIRAL


MACROICE


TOUCH



FALLING




The quicktime archive moves through the nostalgic past. Stuttering. Muttering its intimate memory through the miniature frame. There is a rhythm that slides through the interval. Glitches move a duration.

These memories are novel despite their sudden recollections of a cached past. The drop out, fall out...generates a lag time. Between motion and stasis in the temporal frame there is movement. Imperceptible. This is what I remember from the event on March 3-- rhythm of the lag, the bleeding of continual transitions felt in an intensive dynamic unity of singular relations.

The encounter with these undead memories is viral. We perform retroduction. That is, we look at the event in retrospect, and in doing so, fold elements of the past into futurity.We transduce the sensation of duration in the interval of the lag. We inflect. We become viral. Dead and undead- pulled through the substrata of the biophysical, biodigital and cultural.

4 comments:

ruby said...

Wow!
The video clips are mysterious, but they leave you wanting more. I think this is a "gallery YOUTUBE gallery" quality; on "youtube" we are always asked "watch again?" at the end of each clip.

There is an uncanny quality that reminds me of your 'assignment' (shooting video and thinking sound). I think this is a powerful way to have short clips deliver complex information - leaving the viewer/listener with interesting questions, asking them to take the time to "watch again" or "share". In this way, the clips become richer with each repetition - the mind is addicted, infected and lost in the lag.

ruby said...

i collected some snow from the site and kept it. i like the way the sediment moves.
i want to put it in a spray bottle and market it as a "synchronicity" spray. the audience of the future would be told that "synchronicity" only works if more than one person tests it at a time. this is a personal product that can only be used properly if the use is shared.

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