http://deepyoung.org/current/doubleblind/
++++++++++++++++++++ Some thoughts on attempting to archiving a counfounded time: My video documentation winds up being higher fidelity and more intentionally synchronized than the original performance. There are all sorts of very strange questions that arise in terms of the synchronization. If I synch up Annie's audio track from France with the background arrival of her audio in the US, is that a "correct" synchronization, or am I re-ordering the flow of time after the fact? As I have been trying to synch everything up, sometimes the "arrival" of Annie's sound in my US audio will come before the "launch" of her sound in the France audio -- a kind of impossible, prophetic re-rendering of time. Another question arises -- at certain points both our faces laugh -- a visual projection that is instantaneously recognizable to a viewer. During the performance, Annie is hearing something in her headphones that makes her laugh, and I am hearing something in my headphones that makes me laugh, but it is doubtful that either of us are hearing the exact same thing (at the exact same time) that the other is hearing, and it is even more doubtful that either of us are hearing what the viewers of this post-produced video documentation will be hearing at that exact time. Yet it seems like we are all laughing at the same thing. The more I work with this (and I should have given up on it long ago), the more it seems that the event itself was orchestrated in such a way that it makes "accurate" post-event documentation impossible. Brian Massumi says there are certain factors that elude technical science. It's not because scientists currently lack data. It's because there are certain affective "virtual" forces that will always elude sceintific understanding -- the parameters of science are not set up to recognize these forces. It seems similar to this video documentation. It's not that I lack the software skills to synch this stuff up. The problem is more complicated. It's that there is no single "standard" real world event with which to synch the documentation. Which is very cool. Most performances are more or less documentable on video. But here we have constructed an event that eludes linear video documentation. Not because we did the event in the dark, or because we only used sound. We actually used streaming video as one of our media. Our performance problematizes video documentation at a more fundamental level -- the level of the network and time. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
