The opening of "Launch" was successful.
For the past week I have been struggling to install my piece into the basement of Work Gallery. The biggest problem that I was faced with was in relation to light. I chose the basement of Work because it typically is a dark room for students. Because the gallery was overbooked with student's work, two people with photographs and drawings were placed in the basement as well. This meant that their work needed to be lit up which obviously wasn't good for my video projection. In the end, I accepted the lightness of the room because it allows the viewer to see my watercolor better.
For my piece I had to decide between using a laptop or a DVD player to show my video on. Either the laptop of the DVD player would be connected to the projector. Looking at the pros and cons of both, I chose to use a DVD player because it was more compact than a laptop. The problem with the DVD player was that I didn't have a remote for the player and the work needed to be able to loop by itself. After contacting Cynthia Pachikara for help, she emailed me how to burn a DVD so that it loops automatically: If you want to burn a DVD so that it loops without someone having to press "repeat" on the remote, use iDVD. It's easy to use, you can set it to start immediately after the DVD player is turned on (in other words, no one has to hit "play"). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV4a5nNu1eA Here is an image of the footage I have filmed. This is what will be projected on top of my watercolor.
The title of my piece is "Elapse."
e-lapse verb 1. (of time) to slip or pass by. noun 2. the passage or termination of a period of time; lapse. What I like about this title is that, although the definitions are referring to time, it is also true in relation to memory. Trying to figure out what to project on top of my watercolor, I experimented with VHS footage I had filmed during the Fall semester. This footage was of years ranging from 2013 all the way back to the 1990's.
Struggling to convey memory and time through my piece, I found that the distorted footage appropriately depicted what I wanted. Because this project is supposed to be an integration of the past four school years, I am going to film the years 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, and 2010. I will be distorting the footage to represent the idea that memory and time become blurry and lost over the years. |