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Selected Works 1998 - 2005 |
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Very often people assume that "form"
as a concept is the opposite of something called "content". This
assumption implies that a poem or a musical piece or a film is like a jug. An
external shape, the jug, contains something that could just as easily be held
in a cup or pail. Under this assumption, form becomes less important than
whatever it is presumed to contain. We do not accept this assumption. If form is
the total system, which the viewer attributes to the film, there is no inside
or outside. Every component functions as part of the overall pattern that is
perceived. Thus we shall treat as formal elements many things that some
people consider content. From our standpoint, subject matter and abstract
ideas all enter into the total system of the artwork ( .... ) |
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David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson Film art an introduction (international edition 1993) The concept of form in film page 43. |
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Basic
considerations for the artwork commissioned by Middelburg's new City Hall |
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In my
view a city hall is a social and informational meeting point. This fact is
the basis of my design for this media installation. Personally, I associate
city hall with the elementary facts of (city) life: marriage, birth,
immigration, moving, death. There is a certain tension between these
personal experiences and the impersonal character of city hall, without
which, by the way, it wouldn't be able to function as a social and
information node. |
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How
the media installation in Middelburg's new City Hall works |
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The
installation generates image compositions based on images from both a
database and from interaction with the surroundings. The installation is
connected to the Internet and every day it searches the Internet for images
relating to demographic material in general and for images that concern
Middelburg in particular. This search is based on pre-defined terms, such as:
Middelburg, marriage, birth, portraits, moving, demographics, family,
migration. |
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Geert Mul 2004 Hogeschool yoor
Economische Studies Rotterdam Permanent media installation "Split
Representation" |
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In the installation 'Split Representation for the H.E.S. I am
applying images from the public domain (television news and commercials).
These images represent the current socio-economic situation of the western
world and are the basic ingredients for automated visual compositions that
are displayed on two transparent video screens. |
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In my
installations for public space I try to analyse the different structures that
are characteristic for a specific space and integrate them in the
installation. I am mainly concerned with three structures: |
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Architectural
structure ·
Social
structure ·
Informational
structure |
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The screens
display composite images, constructed with daily recorded images from the
public domain media: news images and commercials from about 40 international
Satellite Television stations. The installation collects these images from a
satelite dish, which is mounted on the roof of the HES building. |
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The software in
the installation compares the images from the news with the images from the
commercials. The imageanalyses software looks for images from the two
categories which are most alike, having a resemblance or similitude. The
software makes daily 1000000.000000 (one billion) comparisons to find the
best matches. Matches are displayed when people pass underneath the
proiection screens. |
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Satelite Television |
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Imaae
analyses &
comoosition |
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Disolay |
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