Multicomponent: Aesthetic Discoveries in the Medium of Video Art
Multicomponent with contextual information
- Submitting institution
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Edinburgh Napier University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 1621710
- Type
- Q - Digital or visual media
- Publisher
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- Month
- June
- Year
- 2015
- URL
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https://portfolios.napier.ac.uk/view/view.php?t=2Jkd74uhXalpgLiS051W
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This research in experimental video art brings together four inter-related pieces that were exhibited in galleries and invited thematic exhibitions worldwide, including the CCA Glasgow, the RSA Edinburgh, The Academy of Fine Arts Kolkata and the Songjiang Art Museum in Shanghai, presented in this multi component output. The Persistence of Vision explores the importance of natural human reading rhythms established by contemporary research within moving visual text, making a film using words rather than images. This extends text-based art processes of Ruscha or Holtzer into the area of video by experimenting with text element durations, using an iterative method to generate a comfortable reading pace. These Measures are for Your Protection creates a formalistic system of editing in an action-based video using still images, expanding the work of Marker and Macpherson into a non-narrative context. Kuleshovian effects and a schematic approach generate the illusion of structured movement and momentum.Outside the Box presents human emotion in action without affective characteristics of story, sound and visual interaction, transposing the emotional transportation in Koester into purely facial expression. Relying on McQueen and Cage’s discussions of silence, and restrictive framing decontextualises the images, revealing mysterious facial manifestations of creative processes. Ballygunge Phari eliminates illusions of photographic depth in the portrait of a city, adapting shadowplay techniques of Feldman and Brandenburg in documentary, observational contexts. The single monochrome shot responds to the writings of Deleuze and Cubitt, and is invisibly edited in an analogue of sculptural carving. Referencing Vance and Read, this innovation of aesthetic grammars led to the discovery that all the works shared methodological, installational and viewer-appreciation qualities with the medium of sculpture. This produces new research questions for subsequent investigations: to make new video works that are additionally sculptural in their haptic qualities.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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