| by : [n:ja] |
| producer: -- |
| link: www.thing.at |
| year of production: 1999 |
| sound: -- |
| medium: web-application |
| comment: -- |
Video 2: Similar to video 1, a cinematographic course of events runs again with a luxurious graphic presentation. In the background there is a movable panorama of output images. One and the same image material is simultaneously and in different manifestations present as a sequential development in the space. In this way it can be put into a perspective in a slow or fast succession of time. The twitching video helplessly trapped in its repeat loop shows a sequence of steps - steps which have a fundamental affinity with the structural discontinuities of the film material. The camera-eye appears less to climb the stairs than to approach them, as the steps - random or not - correspond to the rhythm of the frames. What is relevant, however, is less the content of the videos than the composition in which it is integrated. The video image is not a course of events which dominates the entire screen. It shrinks to a source of emission among other things and creates a space for a clear site with partially mobile, reactive sign-objects in different states of aggregation, a field of conditional and representational objects, upon which one can move and intervene in different aspects. [...] Both 'videos' are simple, but they attest to a change in consciousness in which it has become self-evident that it/one must no longer decide on any specific method of presentation and that one and the same object is imaginable side by side with different temporal and semiotic systems.
(Walter Pamminger / Translation: David Quigley)
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