A painterly digital video artwork and multi-format installation made from scanned newspaper articles.
/abstraction/ ii is part of a triptych that belongs to a series of digital video works (2000-2004) concerned with merging the notions of 'art' and 'media' into a single entity; blurring the distinctions between the two through the hybridisation and recombination of their constituent elements. The compositions are intended to be adaptable to numerous contexts and site-specific formats ranging from gallery installations and festival screenings to large urban video walls and immersive multi-channel projections.
These time-based artworks are exclusively created from digitised extracts of raw information captured from a variety of international news media sources. Each piece is generated from a small collection of media fragments that have been processed and layered via predetermined protocols into the final video sequences. The visual arrays are only semi-abstract as the information contained within the news sources is still partially discernible, thus positioning each work as both an aesthetic entity and a receptacle of knowledge.
· digital newspaper scan-collages of 4 different international languages
Peter James [ project support and documentation ]
/abstraction/ ii v1.0 was commissioned in 2001 by Global Multimedia Interface for their urban video wall located at #1 Leicester Square, London. The development of the artwork was made possible with funding by West Midlands Arts, UK and generous support by Real Art Presentations.
Modular digital video installation requiring display equipment capable of streaming a 4K (3840 x 2160 pixels) H.264 video loop at 60 frames per second.