OWN WORK METHOD AND WRITING

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Writing out in loose pieces of paper the subjects that interest me. Other pieces of paper include the whys, projects I'm working on right now and statements from the feedback of the assessment that I have to keep in mind or answer. I want to move these pieces around to create a good overview of the red line through my work. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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WhatHowWhat version 1 -

(Titel) This project works with photographs made of multiple repeated frames taken from my own home video dvd clips. These dvd clips were recorded from VHS originally. The images show that these frames are duplicated and repeated, seen as one long still image, and seen as a ‘glitch’. These duplicated frames are a cover-up for not being able to read the ‘real’ frames originally from the VHS tape. I recorded the ‘glitch’ moments from DVD’s and pasted them together into a separate video. I took every frame from this video and made it into a new image file. Printed these images as physical photographs and pasted these photographs into a photo album. After these images have been multiplied so often these moments have increased in meaning. In our generation we will always see these images as more special because this ‘glitch’ is a result of the new medium and at the same time the old (original) medium gets more inaccessible as time goes on. I put these photographs in an album to take them back to the time and value of analogue media, during which these moments were recorded.

(The Places in Between) The book ‘The Places in Between’ is an encrypted documentation of one day in my life. The stripes of paper are metaphors for the privacy and accessibility levels you go through to get to my information. I used a key logger to automatically get data from the devices everyone carries with them. I coded my webcam in order to make it take short clips of the view on every hour. This information is stored on my computer daily. For the book I chose to use all information regarding the first day everything was working automatically. Looking at each others information has changed the value of that digital information, and the act of looking at it. We forget we are inside someone’s privacy area because the act of clicking inside an interface is meaningless. When you feel the physical act of peeling away privacy layers, you feel that your getting deeper into someone’s secrets/life.

WhatHowWhat revised (Femke Snelting notes) 'PERSONAL' version -

(Titel)This project works with photographs made of multiple repeated stills taken from my own home video dvd clips. These home video tapes are mainly about me and my sister growing up. The dvd clips were recorded from a VHS tape originally. The stills show that these frames are duplicated and repeated, seen as one long still image, and seen as a ‘glitch’. These duplicated stills are a cover-up for not being able to read the ‘real’ frames originally from the VHS tape. I recorded the ‘glitch’ moments from DVD’s and pasted them together into a separate video. I took every repeated still from this video and made it into a new image file. After printing these images as physical photographs, I pasted these photographs into a photo album. These stills have been multiplied so often that these moments have increased in meaning to me. I will always see these images as more special because they are repeated and therefore the focus. This ‘glitch’ is a result of the new medium and at the same time the old (original) medium gets more inaccessible as time goes on. I put these photographs in an album to take them back to the time and value of analogue media, because on the DVD’s these video stills look like photographs.

(The Places in Between) The book ‘The Places in Between’ is an encrypted documentation of one day in my life. The stripes of paper are metaphors for the privacy and accessibility levels you go through to get to my information. I used key loggers and codes to automatically get data from the devices I use daily, from which I can enter the digital world. For instance: I coded my webcam in order to let it take short clips of the view on every hour. All the digital information was stored on my computer daily. I decided to put all this information together in a book, as the opposite metaphor to the digital interface. For this book I chose to use all information from the first day all the coded devices were working automatically. Because my information is out in an invisible world, and I cant know who is looking at it and when, the value of this information has changed compared to when the accessibility to the digital world was not as easy, and the information was not all connected to that world. You forget your inside my privacy area because the act of clicking inside an interface is not a physical one. When you feel the physical act of peeling away privacy layers, you feel that your getting deeper into my life.

WhatHowWhat revised (Femke Snelting notes) 'GENERAL' version -

(Titel) This project works with photographs made of multiple repeated stills taken from a young woman’s home video dvd clips. These home video tapes are mainly about her family growing up. The dvd clips were recorded from a VHS tape originally. The stills show that these frames are duplicated and repeated, seen as one long still image, and seen as a ‘glitch’. These duplicated stills are a cover-up for not being able to read the ‘real’ frames originally from the VHS tape. The ‘glitch’ moments from DVD’s are recorded and pasted together into a separate video. All the repeated stills from this video are made into a new image file. After printing these images as physical photographs, they are pasted into a photo album. These stills have been multiplied so often that these moments have increased in meaning to the person who these dvds belong to. She will always see these images as more special because they are repeated and therefore the focus. This ‘glitch’ is a result of the new medium and at the same time the old (original) medium gets more inaccessible as time goes on. These photographs are put into an album to take them back to the time and value of analogue media, because on the DVD’s these video stills look like photographs.

(The Places in Between) The book ‘The Places in Between’ is an encrypted documentation of one day into a persons life. The stripes of paper are metaphors for the privacy and accessibility levels you go through to get to that information. Using key loggers and codes to automatically get data from the devices the ‘PEOPLE’ use daily from which you can enter the digital world. For instance: Coding a webcam in order to let it take short clips of the view on every hour. All the digital information was stored on the computer daily. All this information is collected together in a book, as the opposite metaphor to the digital interface. For this book all the information from the first day was used, the day on which all the coded devices were working automatically. Because digital information is out in an invisible world, and you cant know who is looking at it and when, the value of this information has changed compared to when the accessibility to the digital world was not as easy, and the information was not all connected to that world. You forget your inside the privacy area because the act of clicking inside an interface is not a physical one. When you feel the physical act of peeling away privacy layers, you feel that your getting deeper into a persons life.

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