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25.05.04 Movie Mincer, vjing with a mincer.
Interfacing mechanic and digital technologies provokes an emotional jerk like that provoked by the implant of integrated circuits on organic tissue, connecting worlds we normally keep rigidly apart. Movie Mincer, made by the russian artist Sergey Teterin, is a perfect example of such a situation. It connects the rotating motion of an old meat mincer made by the Izhevsk foundries (famous for their weapons, too) with the flow of a video shown by his laptop. A citation of the early period of cinema and the need to manually control the projector, this project is a provoking lowtech vjing tool which allows to intuitively control changes of speed, stop motion, rewinds and scratching. This work is reminiscent of 'Crank the Web', Jonah Brucker-Cohen's experiment which applied the manual graduality of a crank to the loading of a web page, an action which, in the dialup era, involved a lot of waiting.