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12.09.2002 bergen sky

twilight lingers in bergen. + speeds it up - loads degraded skies.

this is a project that wanted to begin an investigation into the aesthetics and possibilities of skinned movies. but skinned movies that didn't replace the standard qt interface with something groovy but removed it all together. it comes out of the canberra trilogy series where i started to think about the frame of the video not just as a container for video but as itself an authored space.

movies that are more like parts of the desktop, that could just sort of float around (clouds, get it) on the desktop.

with no drag area available they are also sort of intractable, a digital movie object on your screen that sort of is in the way, since you can't move it, but sort of not since they're just clouds. it is part of the desktop, a part of the collage and montage that the contemporary gui always and already is.

also the lowest bandwidth clouds, the ones you get after patiently clicking the '-' 4 times, is the most pixellated (since most heavily compressed) but in many ways the most interesting. the pixellation that is going on here is a reiteration of the slicing that i did in my earlier vogs. it is partly the addition of noise that conceals the artefacts of the low data rates (the artefacts being low frame rate and compression noise), but it is also the combination of montage and collage (mollage) that i have addressed in several papers [1999, 2000, 2001] which looks as much to deleuze as it does to the principals of desktop networked interactive cinema.