VISA 0120 Foundations Media: Computation + Art

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My film deals with the commodification of time and the organization of time into schedules. The watches and clocks spin, becoming more and more frantic, to represent the overwhelmingness of schedules. The soundtrack mirrors this feeling. Time, as represented by the clocks and watches, is invaded by the alien force of commodity, as represented by the jewels. This force is parasitic and utilizes time for it’s own means, using the watches to create it’s own progeny. Throughout the length of the video these symbols for scheduling and commodity build until the entire process implodes upon itself, illustrating the futility and absurdity of placing constraints and external forces on time.

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This film takes the ideas of cycles and transformation over time and applies them to motion. Time moves as a clock moves, in a circle.  However, each round is altered by small transformations.  Some of these transformations are caused by birth, growth and death, which all occur in cycles as time progresses.  Each moment is but a small fragment of an endless and circular timeline and is significant only in the way in which it transforms the circuit and consequently future events.

The human body and the urban world we live in continually decay.

It is essential that we remain young-at-heart and create an enjoyable environment in such gloomy times. If our perceptions of our bodies and material reality are purely superficial, decay is something we dread; rather than something we should embrace as a natural progession of life.

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My animation reflects my approach to time, which includes the notion of doing things at my own pace. This is my second version of the animation for the time unit, and I decided to depict a more personal issue. As a child, I had a very hard time learning how to read. My concept embraces the revelation I had, which was that I could not rush the process, and that if I just took my time and practiced, it would eventually click, and I could “dive in” to the adventures of reading.

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.

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