User:SN/Graduate proposal draft

What are you working on now? Relation to previous practice

I have two ideas, both connected to my previous practice.

First: continue further what I've started in EYE project. Investigate more connections between sound and video, how one can affect, transform other. The EYE Project is a manipulation of silent films from the Eye Archive and Prelinger collection. The metadata used for indexing the material provides the starting point. The formal parameters of the image source are separated from the narrative to produce sound. Motion vectors and histogram data were isolated from the source to generate an audio track and reassociate it with the footage. This time, I think to work on building video source based on audio.

Second: Explore the area of self-identity in digital media and how this identity is fading away. I plan to write code that would allow me to create "diary" of my/others routine on the internet. Look how I can use this data in an artistic way. What this data tells about the user, about his uniqueness.

How do you plan to make it?

I have some readings to do and analyze what is done already in this area. I've started from:

"Aesthetics of administration." Buchloh

"Aesthetics of the Error" Timothy Barker

"The Glitch Momentum" Rosa Menkman

Right now I'm writing small code that would allow me continuously make printscreens while I working on my computer and create barcodes for every day.