VISA 0120 Foundations Media: Computation + Art

Viking Eggeling’s “Symphonie Diagonale” (1921) is an early experimental film animation that balances abstract visual form and sound. Viking Eggeling is a Swedish filmmaker.

The conceptualization of time as a singular event breaks with the rationalized conception of time as a  linear progression.  The event signifies the culmination of all time as one happening; a monstrous view of advance as eternity in a single totalized form.  This concepts bears importance after the transition into modernity as man faces bodily abstraction by and through time, especially within the modern prison and factory systems.  These functions as sites of the mechanization of the body and its abstraction from the organic into a constructed alterity.