Microprocesses - experimental sound video

Curated by Steven Ball

UGC CInema : 17th March. 8pm

Abstraction, chromatic digital glitches and monochromatic minimalism: a journey through microworlds of electronic textures and rhythmic form.

The videoworks in this collection are particularly concerned with digitally mediated form, structure and material. Computer processing forges new aesthetic forms, non-linear editing facilitates complex rhythmic structure from minimal input, use and misuse of computer technology produces brutalist abstract animation. Sound and image in symbiotic relationship, sharing electronic digital source, or structured by common processes.

The screening will be followed by a discussion led by Malcolm Le Grice, with curator Steven Ball and artists featured in the programme.

Quadrangle

Philip Sanderson 3 mins, UK, 2005

Pixellated quadrilateral autochoreography triggered by randomized combinations of musical fragments.

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Maia Gusberti sound: Stefan Németh 5 mins, Austria, 2001

The everyday abstraction of movement: taking a ride for a line.

ZIJKFIJERGIJOK

reMI 3 mins, Austria/Netherlands, 2003

Scraps of arcane catholic images collide with frenetic digital glitch materialism.

the_future_of_human_containment

Michaela Schwentener sound: Pure 4 mins, Austria, 2002,

Blurred movement in monochromatic abstract motion defies decipherment or definition.

blinq

Billy Roisz sound: Burkhard Stangl, Akoasma Bib, Boris Hauf, Sachiko M., Martin Siewert, Christof Kurzmann, Toshimura Nakamura, Dieb13, Werner Dafeldecker, El 7 mins, Austria, 2002

Manipulated electronic feedback image loops desynched from originating soundtrack sources.

Card 4

Sue.k. 9 mins, Australia, 2002

4-camera/4-handed card game, looping back and forth in rhythmic structure.

Colour Bars

Simon Payne 8 mins, UK, 2004

Colour bars ordinarily form a constant test signal image that is used to calibrate video equipment.

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[n:ja] sound: Radian 5 mins, Austria, 2002

The striated grid as urban positioning device made smooth through a disorienteering horizontal glide.

Retentions 1 - 4

Fred Szymanski 19 mins, USA, 2000

Random synthesising processes and micro patterns decompose spatial movement and environmental sound into complex convulsive abstract patterns.

tst.02

Bas van Koolwijk 5 mins, Netherlands, 2000

Digitally re-modelled video disturbances, audio translations of video signals form the soundtrack.

Steven Ball is a London based artist and Research Fellow at the British Artists' Film & Video Study Collection, Central St Martins College of Art and Design, London.

Thanks to: Sixpack Films, Vienna Montevideo, Amsterdam Rencontres Internationales, Paris Lux, London

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