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("The Double" tape segment)
This work, and others I made, used linear editing to create complex
meanings across the point of the edit, multivalent possibilities riding
the edit as the line of the world inside the mind of the viewer. I was
keenly aware of this as a kind of interacti on As I became involved later
with computer-controlled image playback, allowing random-access to image
and sound fragments, another dimension could be added, as if a rectangle
expanded was into a cube, and the cube could move through space. But what
I w ant to point out is that, though the technology is one of
random-access as a possibility for restructuring fixed relations into
other configurations, as long as the sequencing of images and sounds are
not random, which they are not in these interactive vi deo works of mine,
they are still written. And though the complexity is substantially
increased, the particular sequences and possibilities remain highly
determined. So part of what became interesting for me in these
technological possibilities was a wa y to extend an investigation with
which I had been already involved for some time, in a significantly
extended way.
I will show now another videotape document, a work which I completed in
1993, titled "Childhood / Hot & Cold Wars". Again, it has narration which
more or less introduces the work . But I want to emphasize the connection
in this work to earlier works lik e The Double, in order to emphasize that
it has, in essentially the same way as a linear videotape, been edited,
and all of the possibilities for the sequences in it are given by the
software I have written.
("Childhood/ Hot & Cold Wars" video segment)
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