@Gregory: Stunning piece. I wonder how analog degradation and generational loss provides context for current glitch processes and ³breakages² that are digital engineered. Whereas the latter do not involve generational loss, only ways to undermine and rupture the code (which could be done sequentially), the early analog pieces really do melt into obscurity and forgetfulness as you poetically describe. Whereas glitch has grown out of these kinds of analog manipulations, digital mechanisms involve an entirely different approach, sensibility, strategy, and I am very interested if any of the "glitch artists" on the list might be able to elaborate. Nick? Joseph? Paul?
Randall. On 0p3nr3p0.net <http://0p3nr3p0.net> -- Cable Vision Generations by Gregory Gutenko In 1974 J. J. Murphy created the minimalist/structuralist film-work Print Generation. Cable Vision Generations applies a similar structural process to the medium of analog videotape. The original version of Cable Vision Generations is composed of 100 generational steps (dubs) and runs for 67 minutes. This edited version has 24 steps which are representative of the original's structure. The first step (of cable channel 'surfings') is a 95th generation dub. In the middle of the program is the first generation of the channel sequence. The last step/sequence is a 100th generation dub. Every dubbed sequence was copied through a time base corrector, otherwise the video signal would simply have lost sync and been unrecordable. The cable channels were selected at random and looped to make one sequence that is copied and recopied a generation at a time. Cable Vision Generations begins highly degraded, loops towards its original generation, and then continues on towards re-degeneration. As with Murphy's Print Generation, the viewer gets to experience the loss of memory of the original generation's images and sounds, even though they have been witnessed repeatedly. The ultimate victor is noise. Video noise. Audio noise. The noise of forgetting. http://0p3nr3p0.net/piece/6c02cd45bf8ae235950b234137058b7f _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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