Showing posts with label frontier. Show all posts
Showing posts with label frontier. Show all posts
missing looking 1 : taubach
statement about the work on the course wiki
click HERE to see the video in a bit bigger resolution on the vimeo site
fred camper says:
photo: Permutations 2: Berdan Forest, 3.2 by Fred CamperBy combining multiple photos taken from different perspectives, I have been trying to convey an ever-expanding sense of wonder at objects and places and spaces, driven by the self-invented myth that placing images in true and proper orders will help to heal this broken world. In more recent work, I have surrendered some control over imagery and ordering, in the hope of opening my work to the mix of order and chaos that fills the wider universe.
- Fred Camper
Camper lives in Chicago. He's an artist, writer and lecturer, talking about experimental film. he hosts a nice website with Stan Brakhage resources.
just what was needed...
http://einestages.spiegel.de/external/ShowTopicAlbumBackground/a5485/l4/l0/F.html#featuredEntry
artikel!
artikel!
Skalptänze im Wilden Osten
Eingesperrt im sozialistischen Osten, träumten sie vom Wilden Westen: In der DDR verkleideten sich Hunderte Bürger als Indianer. Ihre Stämme hießen "FDJ Kulturgruppe für Indianistik Hiawatha" oder "IG Mandan-Indianer". Doch ob beim Tomahawk werfen oder Bisontanz - die Stasi campte immer mit. Von David Klaubert
Skalptänze in the Wild East
Eingesperrt im sozialistischen Osten, träumten sie vom Wilden Westen: In der DDR verkleideten sich Hunderte Bürger als Indianer. Imprisoned in the socialist East, they dreamed of the Wild West: In the GDR, hundreds of people dressed up as Indians. Ihre Stämme hießen "FDJ Kulturgruppe für Indianistik Hiawatha" oder "IG Mandan-Indianer". Their tribes were called "FDJ cultural group for indianist Hiawatha" or "IG Mandan Indians." Doch ob beim Tomahawk werfen oder Bisontanz - die Stasi campte immer mit. Von David Klaubert But whether the tomahawk throw or bison dance - the Stasi ever camped with. By David Klaubert
frontier maquette
field, distance, can't see what lies ahead
horse walking forwards
making maquette, tiny wheels
making maquette, tiny camera wagon
making maquette, tiny camera, on a tiny hot water bottle, for stability, vibration avoidance
making maquette, long wagon, weight is in the back and stability is made by just pulling from the front
Rudy posing for the horse
fake scenery setup
fake final image!!!
Space is the Place
I'm taking a project course with Max Neupert called "Space is the Place". He's been introducing a lot of satellite based works and to contrast that, some other worldly takes on outer space, such as the Sun Ra movie that gives the title to the course... psychedellic as hell!
I'm not so into getting obsessed with the big technologies being used for outer space exploration, but I did take a course in Montreal a few years ago about geology on the planets and the most striking thing I can remember is that the professor kept teching us things and then at the end of the lesson he would always say "but all this is only speculative, we really don't know all that much about space and we base our theories on uncertain things"...
Following this lead, I started to think about how space is often something that lives inside our imaginations, how there is a great idea about space, but I'm not really sure where we got this idea.
One common thing I hear is people saying "the whole situation was SO weird, it was like being in outer space!"
Obviously, none of us really know what its like to be in space, but sometimes when we can't orient ourselves, we relate to outer space.
On a kind of side note, I checked out Alice Micelli's artwork taking place in the disaster area of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor meltdown (contaminated "exclusion" zone). I started watching some documentaries on the disaster and noted 2 things:
1. the burnt, cleared and radiated areas look like a kind of 'desert', not unlike many gravel pits, mines, dumps and forest fire areas, kind of like a moon landscape
2. in the documentary, people frequently mentioned that they felt like they were 'on another planet/ in outerspace'... it seems like when their bodies felt disoriented because of the appearance of the place, the heavy radiated air that tasted like metal, the heat from the reactor burning and the strange quiet, nothing was familiar and there was a common tendency to feel very far away from the known planet
Link to Alice Miceli's research and artwork about the Chernobyl Disaster
you can find the Dicsovery Channel documentary and much other info...
AND SO... I decided not to obsess about disaster for the moment, but to rather take a shot at another aspect of location/outerspace relation... that of frontier... the distance ahead of one and what one might go towards.
I have started to work on the screenplay for a kind of metaphoric video image... it will move but does not really have any progression, so I see it more as a single image.
keywords: space, frontier, dreams, dispersion, forward, ahead, distance, pathway, vibration, waves, western, cowboy, horse, self, psychedelia, utopia, horizon, beyond
Moving forwards towards towards a frontier.
I will produce a machine for self video recording and then film a short video metaphor.
The image will include a horse walking alone into the distance. In the image, a large rope, visibly attached to the camera point will lead towards the horse, as he is pulling the camera, filming himself.
I will construct a specialized cart for holding and stabilising the camera and a harness for attaching this cart to a horse. The horse will be instructed to walk in a straight line along a road in the countryside. The cart will be made of wood, well oiled.
The music for the video will be an adaptation of Grace Slick's 1980 solo song Dreams. The voice part of the original song will be written into a score for cello and recorded especially for this video.
STAGES
Stage 1
* designing the camera cart
* training the horse
* testing video equipment and lighting(outdoor conditions)
* looking for a shooting location (stright country road)
Stage 2
* writing the score for the music (musician)
* playing and recording the music
Stage 3
* testing the cart for speed and stability, modifying
* recording the video, editing
* presentation
So maybe it will be called : Dreams : in the direction of the frontier
some links:
Dispersion Relation, wikipedia
Frontier, wikipedia
reading:
text I read recently from the Leonardo Electronic Almanac special edition on Dispersive Anatomies:
Sandy Baldwin, "Introduction: the Anatomy of Dispersion"[pdf]
I'm not so into getting obsessed with the big technologies being used for outer space exploration, but I did take a course in Montreal a few years ago about geology on the planets and the most striking thing I can remember is that the professor kept teching us things and then at the end of the lesson he would always say "but all this is only speculative, we really don't know all that much about space and we base our theories on uncertain things"...
Following this lead, I started to think about how space is often something that lives inside our imaginations, how there is a great idea about space, but I'm not really sure where we got this idea.
One common thing I hear is people saying "the whole situation was SO weird, it was like being in outer space!"
Obviously, none of us really know what its like to be in space, but sometimes when we can't orient ourselves, we relate to outer space.
On a kind of side note, I checked out Alice Micelli's artwork taking place in the disaster area of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor meltdown (contaminated "exclusion" zone). I started watching some documentaries on the disaster and noted 2 things:
1. the burnt, cleared and radiated areas look like a kind of 'desert', not unlike many gravel pits, mines, dumps and forest fire areas, kind of like a moon landscape
2. in the documentary, people frequently mentioned that they felt like they were 'on another planet/ in outerspace'... it seems like when their bodies felt disoriented because of the appearance of the place, the heavy radiated air that tasted like metal, the heat from the reactor burning and the strange quiet, nothing was familiar and there was a common tendency to feel very far away from the known planet
Link to Alice Miceli's research and artwork about the Chernobyl Disaster
you can find the Dicsovery Channel documentary and much other info...
AND SO... I decided not to obsess about disaster for the moment, but to rather take a shot at another aspect of location/outerspace relation... that of frontier... the distance ahead of one and what one might go towards.
I have started to work on the screenplay for a kind of metaphoric video image... it will move but does not really have any progression, so I see it more as a single image.
keywords: space, frontier, dreams, dispersion, forward, ahead, distance, pathway, vibration, waves, western, cowboy, horse, self, psychedelia, utopia, horizon, beyond
Moving forwards towards towards a frontier.
I will produce a machine for self video recording and then film a short video metaphor.
The image will include a horse walking alone into the distance. In the image, a large rope, visibly attached to the camera point will lead towards the horse, as he is pulling the camera, filming himself.
I will construct a specialized cart for holding and stabilising the camera and a harness for attaching this cart to a horse. The horse will be instructed to walk in a straight line along a road in the countryside. The cart will be made of wood, well oiled.
The music for the video will be an adaptation of Grace Slick's 1980 solo song Dreams. The voice part of the original song will be written into a score for cello and recorded especially for this video.
STAGES
Stage 1
* designing the camera cart
* training the horse
* testing video equipment and lighting(outdoor conditions)
* looking for a shooting location (stright country road)
Stage 2
* writing the score for the music (musician)
* playing and recording the music
Stage 3
* testing the cart for speed and stability, modifying
* recording the video, editing
* presentation
So maybe it will be called : Dreams : in the direction of the frontier
some links:
Dispersion Relation, wikipedia
Frontier, wikipedia
reading:
text I read recently from the Leonardo Electronic Almanac special edition on Dispersive Anatomies:
Sandy Baldwin, "Introduction: the Anatomy of Dispersion"[pdf]
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