EYE On Art

This page is for the PZI ResearchLab EYE On Art 2016 programme.

Boundaries of the Archive

The PZI ResearchLab will focus on the boundaries of the archive. The EYE Collection is internationally recognised for its outstanding historical breadth and quality, particularly in relation to Dutch cinema culture. As media practitioners studying the structures and cultural impacts of our media technologies, we will concentrate on the intricate and usually hidden aspects of this extensive archive. Any limitations, frictions and little noticed quirks in the archival system serve as poetic inspiration. The timing of this exhibition coincides with the moving of the EYE Collection to new premises. It provides a starting point to explore the materiality of both digital and analogue films, the poetics of cataloguing them, and the fragile semantics of a vast collection database.

Individial works/projects

Nataliya

An audio-visual installation that explores metadata of the pieces from silent cinema collection, their visual language, and narrative specificities, to generate sound or, in other words, insonify the film. Few silent video pieces composed for 3 screens and insonifyed. The archiving process follows strict policy and sustains personal/human impact. My project is a metaphor for this process. I investigate the possibility of creating 'objective' model of sound generation and my personal impact on it as the author of maxims for the process. Insonification is based on motion vectors, extracted from the video and mapped to the process of sound generation. The way sound is synthesised is based on metadata and the rules I set up for it.

Facilities, needed for installation:

Three screens
Sound system (To discuss. Maybe we all will use headphones, maybe not)
laptop to synchronize videos

Solange

For my personal project for the EYE, I’m going to give films an anthropomorphic voice to tell about their own individual experiences in the EYE archive. Each film tells a narrative, about their self’s, there past or present in the archive. Each with a different character and voice. I present an archive of narratives of the film archive. I present the past in the present. This will be an audio piece, but I was thinking of whispering voices. (You have to get close to her it)

What do I need:

Sound system (I prefer not headphones, but that’s in consideration)

Lucas

One concept I was developing involves the reading of the keyword list (Trefwoorden-thesaurus), ideally complete. The reading is done by several people, all nonDutch speakers. (to highlight the language limitations in accesibility of this international archive). After a few tests I realized it's more interesting when they are not in alphabetical order. It could create strange suggestive mixtures ( satanisme next to militaire vaartuigen etc... ).

Equpment:

Headphones

Equipment

What the EYE says:

They have:

3 beamers,
1 monitor, (though Anna mentioned they might have no monitors/tv screen at all)
sound speakers,
probably one headphones.
We are going to project on the walls in dark grey, which enhances the colors of the videos, both colour and black and white works.
We will use beamers with 4000 lumen and probably media players for mpg. More specifications will follow
Contact on media player technical details, and overall equipment: Anna Dabrowska (ask Sol/Thomas/Lucas/Ruben for email details)

Resources

Main Database

Database

User name: bezoeker

Password: ceguestwelcome

Links

Eye Museum Collection Policy 2014-2017

Experimental film in the Netherlands

Korte Film Poule (short film pool)

Film Bank

The Archive

(from EYE presentation)

The EYE archive and collection are moving in 2016 to a new building in Amsterdam North and for this reason the access to the material will be limited. Contact Simona Monizza ASAP for material!
The collection of Bits & Pieces (fragments from the early cinema in public domain suitable for remixes) can be accessed at any time but, except in a few cases, it is mostly in SD resolution.
The collection of the Korte Film Poule (http://kortefilmpoule.eyefilm.nl) will be always available for curated screenings.

Old wiki page (initial ideas, etc)

Archived at: EYE on Art 2016 - Initial drafts