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Broken Windows By Richard O'Sullivan Revised Notes 9/01/10 2010, 5:14m, DV, Stereo, Colour, Single-Channel. Broken Windows consists of the last footage shot with a digital camcorder: these are the dying gasps of the camera. On one level, the piece might serve as a de-mystification of the digital image; the degradation of the footage broadly implies the processes by which the real world is interpreted as video. Video's constitution of the world as image is laid bare, and it is disconcerting to see the torturous decay of the material as the camera fights to maintain its simulation of the world. On another level, however, the piece implies the impossible mystery of most technology for most viewers. The functioning of the camera, evident in the image only when it fails as here, is something which most of us can't - or don't want to - understand. We comprehend technology so little, that we must engage with it on a purely aesthetic level as a source of magic or wonder.
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Master es mini dv cam NTSC falta sinopsis en catalan falta sinopsis en castellano Screenings CJC Distribution (Paris) selects two videos for distribution, January 2010 (Broken Windows & Monitor). Traverse Video, Toulouse, France. CJC will screen Broken Windows on March 11, 2010 as part of its programme. Director’s Lounge Festival of New Media Arts, Berlin, February 2010. Screening as part of ‘Secret Codes’ program on 15th February 2010. Basement Art Space, Cork, Ireland. Screening as part of ‘Eye-Kea’ Project, 17-25th April 2010. Looped screening. Magmart, Naples International Videoart Festival. Curated by Enrico Tomaselli for Magmart’s VisualContainerTV online présentation, 15th April – 6th May. ‘A Light at the End of the Tunnel’, Scope Basel, Basel. Looped video programme. Presented by PAM (New York) and curated by Lee Wells. 15th – 19th June 2010. ‘A Light at the End of the Tunnel’ on ‘New Video Art’ Channel, Babelgum.com. Presented by PAM (New York) and curated by Lee Wells. http://www.babelgum.com/newvideoart Arte Video Roma Festival, Case dei Popoli, AIASP. Looping video programme; selections from five years of Magmart Festival by curator Enrico Tamaselli in a wide programme. 25th-27th June 2010 FILE: Festival of Electronic Language, Sao Paulo. Broken Windows and Monitor will be exhibited in File New Media Art.
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