Post by gnewby on Nov 23, 2006 10:09:19 GMT -5
Hi zoe, i have been using this alot today. I was reading some info about a vide artist called David Larcher, in 'Film Art Phenomena'. he did alot of work in early to late 90's the example quoted is Videovoid(1993) where the imagery of the film is derived from film 'dropout'. Nicky Hamlyn quotes
'The images spring out of a negative paradox, tape dropout being a trace of an absence, in this case of magnetic coating from the tape's base material, resulting in the horizontal white lines familiar to viewers of rented videos. Larcher has long been interested in the trace, a phenomenon that can be distinguished from the indexical sign by its immateriality. A footprint stands as evidence... The trace, by contrast, exists only fleetingly, as a record of an event such as the passing of a bird, that might leave more evidence than a momentary disturbance in the movement of the air. Some such phenomena, or epiphenomena, will only be caught, if at all, as a moving image' (page 5-6)
it just made me think about the line of thought in your presentation, i hope you find it useful
'The images spring out of a negative paradox, tape dropout being a trace of an absence, in this case of magnetic coating from the tape's base material, resulting in the horizontal white lines familiar to viewers of rented videos. Larcher has long been interested in the trace, a phenomenon that can be distinguished from the indexical sign by its immateriality. A footprint stands as evidence... The trace, by contrast, exists only fleetingly, as a record of an event such as the passing of a bird, that might leave more evidence than a momentary disturbance in the movement of the air. Some such phenomena, or epiphenomena, will only be caught, if at all, as a moving image' (page 5-6)
it just made me think about the line of thought in your presentation, i hope you find it useful