The Life Still of Still Lives The video is silent. https://youtu.be/5M9qwdS2O6A Video http://www.alansondheim.org/vb.jpg Slow meandering perhaps scan, perhaps run through. Don't worry about the error messages; they're built into the piece; it's video screen capture all the way. Perhaps 2010, perhaps earlier: A series of still images churned and dis/placed through Visual Basic programming; the images are shifted and rastered through mathematical manipulation allowing the appearance at times of text, at other times, interference, at other times, reworking almost entirely. The process can take between a few seconds and close, I believe, to an hour or more; who knows. Completed a long time ago, they run poorly now, but I have been able to get enough of a restoration to give one the idea of the parts of the whole of the parts. Some of the pieces were designed to be impossible to remove from the desktop; only by rebooting would they disappear. The whole of the video lasts 36' 31" and I suggest you run this in the background or skip around the various sections - you might miss something. The video begins rather minimalist only by chance; I ran through the series in alphabetic order. There is no sound. I am utterly please with what I achieved - the appearance of glitch, but its exact opposite - in fact all of this is determinate. In some, I could stop the progression at any point and restarting would create new interferences. In others, that would be the end of the progression. You can see I had to close most of them by force or what passes for force on the computer; others quietly ended their run as if frozen. Oddly I have no memory of the mathematics or programming I used to create these; I'm fascinated that they seem like living creatures with minds of their own. +++ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] The Life Still of Still Lives
Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour Tue, 07 Jun 2022 19:07:28 -0700
