[26.02.2002] b/r
v1.1 by: Michael Takeo Magruder, 2002(v1.0 PAL original) - 2021(v1.1 4K remaster)
A painterly digital video artwork and multi-format installation composed from digitised news broadcasts and papers.
About the Artwork:
[26.02.2002] b/r 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.
Source Material:
· 48 full-page scans of The Times newspaper and a 40-minute digital recording of a BBC News broadcast captured on 26/02/2002
Artwork Documentation:
With Thanks to:
Peter James [ project support ]
Supported by:
[26.02.2002] b/r v1.0 was developed in 2002 with funding by West Midlands Arts, UK.
Artwork Requirements:
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.