Saturday 10 November 2012

Electric Sheep & Hiroshi Sugimoto

In continuing my venture in creating a video palimpsest using stock video footage, I came across the 'Electric Sheep' project. The way in which the data is designed to collate and generate these images asks similar questions of computers as I am asking of perception, how do we as humans collate all the information we are given, and when we look upon this mass of information as a single image, what does it say.




There is a certain similarity:

Beyond this I want to note the relevance of Hiroshi Sugimoto's work, this exploration of time and the culmination of information or energy, as seen in his long exposures of screens below.

Orinda Theater, Orinda, 1992 

La Paloma, Encinitas, 1993 

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