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Twentythree

Submitted by Sandra Dubé on Thu, 08/16/2007 - 18:01

Author(s):

Dubé, Sandra

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«Twentythree» est une vidéo interactive qui propose à l’internaute de parcourir la rue d’une ville de l’année 1923. Une musique typique de l’époque accompagne l’image de fond. Il est possible de pénétrer à l’intérieur du Colisée, du Cinéma et d’y voir défiler artistes et sportifs. Chaque séquence cinématographique date de l’époque mais est retravaillée numériquement - la couleur, le montage, le mouvement - et parvient à marier «the aesthetics of the first part of the twentieth century and the effects typical of electronic media».

Contenus reliés

La ville numérique II

Twentythree

Artist·s:

Joseph, Chris

Kind of Artwork:

Internet

Year:

2003

http://www.391.org/32/

Infos

Hosting website:

391

Hosting website URL:

http://www.391.org

Date of last consultation:

August 16, 2007

Coordonnées de l'artiste:
babel@391.org
Groupe de recherche:
NT2

Taxonomies

Nature:

Artwork

Interactivity:

Position Tracker, Multiple Choice Navigation

Format:

Image, Animated image, Video/Film/Short Film, Music

Theme:

Past, City, Cinema, History, Dialogue

Media:

Internet

Année:

2003

Artwork language(s):

English

Traitement numérique des ressources:

Flash 9

Notes

«Creating movement from the static, the work Turnbaby by Babel uses a series of Internet media and scripts to devolve a contemporary pirouette sequence to early motion sequences made by Edison at the end of the nineteenth century. Sometimes the images dance in a fragmentary way, sometimes their motion is static and it is the degradation of the image that dances. The result is a dynamic on-screen play of image, frame and movement; a conflicted theatre or a fractured cinema of many parts.» (http://window.auckland.ac.nz/archive/2002/08/online.php) «Made by the canadian Babel, twentythree is an interactive linear Flash video featuring some digitized images and sequences taken from movies made in the year 1923. Even if somewhat similar to the film sequencing of ''You are Late'.', by Barbara Lattanzi, this work abstracts the sequences, stylizing and layering them on top of one another until they're turned into a bunch of pixels, but preserving the feeling of movement, lights and shadows. It's a sort of impressionism mandated by the lack of antialiasing, suspended between the aesthetics of the first part of the twentieth century and the effects typical of electronic media. Moreover, twentythree features a long RealVideo sequence entitled 'where is the sun', where clips of a mute film are treated with the same algorithms of speed change, blurring and crude digitizing using warm colors which characterize all of this work.» (http://www.neural.it/nnews/twentythreee.htm)