16.03.06 Scan, processed video.
Starting from the very moment the camera has been placed side by side with the paintbrush with the task of representing the existent, the real has officially ended to exist as objective data. It has been replaced by points of view, framings, lightings, perspectives... Today there are many more devices able to represent the world and the digital technologies enable a more complex and deeper data manipulation. In the end the outcomes contribute to the contemporary debate about aesthetic. In this context Scan is a video made by fluid framings of city views and stretched urban walks, distorted in width or duplicated exploiting symmetric characteristics, in a resulting old shape. At the moment the process is even more interesting than the final visual result. In fact Scott Carver (the author) experiments with an amateurial video through an image processing software coded by a University of Washington's Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media team. As stated on the official website, the application can be used both for the post-production purposes and for live intervention on the video signals, even if, unfortunately, it is still not downloadable.
Francesca Colasante