Full Metal Jacket series

These are some new experimentations with representation, time and perception from Kubrick's seminal film. I am now, more preoccupied with looking for how time and space are created or reconfigured through the modes of representation or perception we use. 

While all this is still not clear in my head the outcomes of my attempts are strangely poetic and aesthetic to me. 

I wonder if others have anything to gain from these. I guess we will see when these are on display at Art Mûr next week.

Digital traces

Here are digital time-lapse captures taken from within the EV building of Concordia University. 

What we inevitably see is how a slowed down digital capture exposes the digital process. What is qualitative and continuous in analog equipment becomes sequential, precise and divisible in the digital. Movement can be captured, but only in a precise, yet abstract way. We don't get the faint, blurry trace that we have come to expect from time-lapse photography. What we get is a the precise information of that existed in that pixel position at that particular time. 

Moving Bodies are transformed into information - numbers to be precise -  and only those things that appear immobile allow themselves to be understood. 

New pixel-time tests

Here are some new generated images from modified version of my Pixel-time patch. This one turn films into timed pixel grids by calculating the resolution based on number of frames in the video and then captures on pixel per frame and flows from the top left down to the bottom right. 

I have some that capture the pixel based on its current read-write position and others that capture the average of all the pixels on screen. 

So far, there isn't much going on with this as it only produces abstract grid compositions. I am currently working to expand the functionality of this program as well as find an actual use for it. 

3 hour self-portrait in Pixel Time

Here is a higher resolution example of my pixel-time photography program. It took almost three hours to complete. I will need to find a way to pump a little more speed out of this program or I will have trouble finding sitters when the time comes to produce my series.

Or, maybe I just need to figure out a more creative use for this new machine instead of simple photo-portraits. 

I will keep playing around with it and see what comes out. The possibilities of opening the debate on perception and information are already quite apparent, as are the possibilities of discussing the differences between analog and digital perception and their subjects. I am looking forward to seeing where this can go!