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Mark
Amerika
John Vega
Chad Mossholder
Jeff Williams
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artist's
statement | technical statement |
process
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technical statement
Our
team of collaborators (Mark Amerika, John Vega, Chad Mossholder, Jeff
Williams) worked with a variety of tools such as digital video cameras,
digital cameras, portable digital audio recording devices, 3-D and
web animation programs, computer graphics software, html and text
editors, audio editing software, stereo microphones, etc. The images
captured for the piece were shot on remote locations including the
Haleakala desert landscape, and this required portable yet reliable
and powerful technology as well. A small sampling of the technology
used includes a Powerbook G3 laptop, a Sony TRV-900 DV camcorder,
a Nikon 990 Coolpix Digital Camera, Simpletext, Photoshop, Flash,
Vegas, Acid Loops, Quark, Acrobat, etc.
Having said that, the most significant technology used in the creative
process associated with our collaborative FILMTEXT project was decidedly
non-instrumental, that is, the social network itself. As with all
of my previous web-based projects, FILMTEXT grew organically from
a seed concept that essentially asked "what is the difference
between a work of digital video art, a film, an interactive animation,
an audio ebook, and a online novel and an expanded concept of cinema?"
Working on the WWW confuses genres, and makes problematic, the creative
process in terms of practice, theory, and notions of authorship. The
artists who contribute to FILMTEXT as an ongoing work-in-progress
all use current hardware and software platforms to manifest their
desired digital effects, but the art work itself, once published/exhibited
on the Internet, becomes something bigger than any of the constituent
artists could have ever expected and this inevitably leads us to question
the role of technology even further.
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