These works offer the viewer an opportunity to re-enter and re-experience images of historical significance with which they have had previous discourse. Several symbolic and emotional video clips* were chosen for manipulation, and then reformed into Baroque, sublime versions of their previous form. Through viewing the works, the viewer may have a new experience and form new memories of the images without emotional predispositions or proclivities from their social and collective memory. To accomplish this I have designed a system of digital manipulation that uses the layering of images, recursive frames and the distortion of time-based elements. This system rebuilds the footage frame-by-frame, from 15 second clips into fifteen minute metamorphosing works that contain a compressed frame rate of 482244372558593750 frames per second.
- Untitled #3 (B.B.) is 15 seconds of footage of the initial bombing of Baghdad by coalition forces.
- Untitled #4 (224-410) is the Abraham Zapruder film of ...
Full Description
These works offer the viewer an opportunity to re-enter and re-experience images of historical significance with which they have had previous discourse. Several symbolic and emotional video clips* were chosen for manipulation, and then reformed into Baroque, sublime versions of their previous form. Through viewing the works, the viewer may have a new experience and form new memories of the images without emotional predispositions or proclivities from their social and collective memory. To accomplish this I have designed a system of digital manipulation that uses the layering of images, recursive frames and the distortion of time-based elements. This system rebuilds the footage frame-by-frame, from 15 second clips into fifteen minute metamorphosing works that contain a compressed frame rate of 482244372558593750 frames per second.
- Untitled #3 (B.B.) is 15 seconds of footage of the initial bombing of Baghdad by coalition forces.
- Untitled #4 (224-410) is the Abraham Zapruder film of the assassination of President Kennedy.
Work metadata
- Year Created: 2004
- Submitted to ArtBase: Wednesday Jul 6th, 2005
- Original Url: http://art.rutgers.edu/~azzarella/Pages/Video.html
- Permalink: http://art.rutgers.edu/~azzarella/Pages/Video.html
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Work Credits:
- Joshua Azzarella, creator
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