User:Nan Wang/ index-thesis
“For the microscopic debris that covers our clothes and bodies are the mute witnesses, sure and faithful, of all our movements and of all our encounters.” Every contact leave a trace is a term from Edmond for analysis crime scene, however as a filmmaker and media artist. I take it as a comparison with contact print on film. I took the evident of my existence. Force it to leave a trace. • Manifest a story, which is not yet been decrypted.
Chapter 1: the story of dust
Let’s say, everything starts with dust.
1, what is dust? (Forensic reference: Locard, Edmond, The Analysis of Dust Traces,
from forensic angle experts look at dust and trace to deduction a crime, however, I am looking at dust try to let audience to construct images and narrative by themselves/)
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2, culture interpretations of dust. ( at certain environment or scenario related to big political or cultural events, dust become a mediated object.)- impure matter.
3, What’s my interpretation of dust?( reference from skin study, how much percentage of house dust is human skin. From BBC .)
"If you're wondering exactly how many skin cells fall off, get ready for some staggering numbers. Scientists estimate that the human body is made up of around 10 trillion cells in total. Your skin makes up about 16 percent of your body weight, which means you have roughly 1.6 trillion skin cells [source: BBC]. Of course, this estimate can vary tremendously according to a person's size. The important thing is that you have a lot of skin cells. Of those billions of skin cells, between 30,000 and 40,000 of them fall off every hour. Over a 24-hour period, you lose almost a million skin cells [source: Boston Globe]. Where do they all go? The dust that collects on your tables, TV, windowsills and on those picture frames that are so hard to get clean is made mostly from dead human skin cells. In other words, your house is filled with former bits of yourself. In one year, you'll shed more than 8 pounds (3.6 kilograms) of dead skin. "
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Our bodies are constantly processing the sloughed excess and waste produced by our contact with other species or by the frictions occurring between different specimens. And we in turn deposit minute trace evidence of our passage through space and in time wherever we move and whenever we make contact with another surface.
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my research method of using dust material to let audience take the active position as viewer and investigator to construct the story by themselves.
Chapter 2: Put dust on film:
1, I will try to research and compare my dust works with and structure film and current audiovisual performance. Researching the similarities and differences between these works and my work.
Chapter 3:my works and other works related to this topic:
1, conceptual aspect.
--→ why and how.
2, technical aspect.
--→ How to sort out randomness and chaos(the visual noisy nature of dust). By manipulating(editing) images.
synaesthesia, visual music and foley sound.
3, experience aspect. --> what view looking at, overall audiovisual experience.
Bibliography：
Dust - A Study in Sociological Miniaturism -Gary Alan Fine and Tim Hallett
Archaeology: The Discipline of Things
The Analysis of Dust Traces. -Edmond Locard
Theory and Definition of Structural/ Materialist Film
IMPURE MATTER: A Forensics of WTC Dust Susan Schuppli
FORUM: NEW MATERIALISM New Materialism as Media Theory: Medianatures and Dirty Matter －Jussi Parikka
The Hidden Sense Synesthesia in Art and Science
The Spirit inside Each Object: John Cage, Oskar Fischinger, and “The Future of Music” －Richard_Brown
Visual Music － Maura McDonnell, 2007
Articles：
BBC-SKIN
Pulverulence -Steven Connor