video web log [-\\/] video blog
the gallery and the museum. sorry national gallery and national museum.
an interactive work that seemed a good idea at the time but once made, well, not so sure.
to use it click the channel selector on the tv set. there are two clips that you can load, one is stuff shot at the gallery, the other at the museum. they are tiled videos since when i made them i thought they would have the more usual forms of the vogs, but i got interested in sort of skinning the movies and wrapping them into something else.
the collage work that surrounds the tv i find much more interesting. it comes from the recent,in retrospect very obvious, realisation that the frame of the vog didn't have to be the same as the frame of the video. this is part of the same progression that saw me realise that the text i wanted as part of the movies didn't need to lie on the page, like this, but could be inside the movie as text tracks, and user controllable (so next time i think i'll move all this text into the movie too...). so i made a series of collages for this canberra trilogy that the video is a part of, and embedded within, and the collage is certainly part of the movie, though not a movie.
the first knob on the tv also varies the sound, but it is very clunky to use. if i did this again (but hey they're experiments and the masterpiece is dead, right?) i'd do the video very differently.
oh, and it's another bit of visual literalism. a tv (which is a drawing so not really a real tv is it?) which lets you swap channels, channels with a K for culture.
driving home from canberra down the freeway. + text.
this is a dip into higher bandwidth territory, as this has quite a high data rate and what i wanted here was a very clear indication of the movement. of course because it's about a road trip, but also because it is about letting people know that while most of the vogs are very quiet on the action front this is more a reflection of what i shoot than a reflection on the lack of movement that can be represented. (for instance the canberra rain vog below is a wide shot of approaching clouds, but really, not a lot of movement in clouds that are 40 kilometres away.)
the use of the text here progresses from the rollover semi transparent popups i used in canberra rain, just wanted to scroll text tracks that are similar in tone and style to what i used in the canberra rain vog but made them more, well ergodic. the scripts that control them are now much more time based so that different text tracks are available at different times. i think a combination of different text tracks at different times, combined with the roll overs of the canberra rain vog, would be much more interested visually, aesthetically, and as an exploratory softvideo environment.
rain approaching from the telco tower on black mountain in canberra. + text.
the first work in the canberra vog series. this is footage that is shot, handheld, from the top of the telecommunications tower of a shower storm that was approaching. the text pop ups were written later, and were written as improvisations around the memory and experience of the trip. they are supposed to be 'local' self contained almost post-it note type entries that taken together became a sort of history and memory of the trip (and when taken together - that is visible all at once, become a sort of word storm collage over the video).
this is also one of the first works where i've started exploring what constitutes the frame of the movie. so the frame is no longer the video or even the video + interactive button bits (which of cause as per the vog manifesto would mean it is not interactive video) but is part of the visual scape of the movie though not the video per se.
