VISA 0120 Foundations Media: Computation + Art

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I chose to create a short film with a concept only vaguely related to my original one: here time feigns organization as ‘moments’ from across the world realign themselves. This orderly motion parallels the idea that time is in our control, it is rational and fair. Yet my soundtrack increases in density and complexity as more languages filter in and soon begins to obscure what is going on. A more decisive moment than the rest arrives, hushing the voices, in the confusing and unexpected form of a bowl. Nature, here represented by water begins to overwhelm the time we once thought was ours. Finally a rather pathetic human hand creeps onto the scene only to awkwardly collapse, a gesture that captures the failing of mankind to really dominate time. This final motion represents the reality that time is actually not something we control; an orderly facade is both created and destroyed by unknown forces.

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Time is often not in one’s hand, as the clichéd saying goes. In fact, moments in time – in this case those represented by newspapers from across the world – frequently prove that time remains unpredictable. Though serene, even, and orderly in theory, time often betrays the hand from which it feeds.

My first impressions of time: circularity, scheduled times of day (morning afternoon, evening), birth to death:

Rhianna’s Instructions:

“1. Past to the future
2. vegetation
3. man-made and natural
4. the urgency of the hunt
5. seeing-in the new
6. life and death
7. the seven stages of man
…creations!”