User:Emily/Self-Evaluation

From visible "cut" to invisibile "cut" (Working Title)

Introduction

The mechansim of moving-image production has been proliferated hugely. From classical cinematic languge to computational processing, the theories and tools applied to realise/fulfil the transition from one state to another have been changed. If we consider the editing as syntax of the language of cinema, the syntax then has been enlarged from the thoery of continuity and montage to intensifed continuity, chaos cinema and post-continuity. What's more, at parallel for the artistic cinema, the theme of computational moving-image faded away from simulating reality, computer modeling to visualizing codes of complex digital structure.

My practice will focus on examine the transition in moving-image production, and try to make people think about the mechanism of producing moving-images by reverse the process.

Relation to previous practice

In the last academic year, I researched mainly on the methods of recombination/permutation/cut-up. Firstly being used in literature then in video works. André Breton, Tristan Tzara, William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, are main figures I looked at.

Time and space are two main important dimensions of the moving image that I am concerning most in my works. Even the cut-up techniques used in create literature works involve spacial imagination. Like for example fold-in technique, taking two sheets of linear text (with the same linespacing), folding each sheet in half vertically and combining with the other, then reading across the resulting page. Gysin created digital poetry I am that I am. In his 1960 essay entitled Cut-Ups Self-Explained, he put forwards "The permutated poems set the words spinning off on their own; echoing out as the words of a potent phrase are permutated into an expanding ripple of meanings which they did not seem to be capable of when they were struck into that phrase. The poets are supposed to liberate the words – not to chain them in phrases. Who told poets they were supposed to think? Poets are meant to sing and to make words sing."

Collecting Refference

movement(camera)+editing(cut+assembling) --> using custom program to --> the process of transition representd as moving-image(e.g. Slice by George Legrady; morphing by lev manovich)