[update - video now online]
One of three digital commissions for Picture House at Belsay hall, this piece curated by Juha Huuskonen (Pixelache) for Dott07. Read about the rest of Picture House here.
Responding to the old Estate Office space within the 19th century hall, United Visual Artists created Hereafter, a history mirror. Using a hidden high speed video camera, a gigantic terabyte hard drive, a large flat video display built into a frame to create the illusion of a traditional mirror.
The high speed camera enables playback in super slow motion. Through a combination of recording and playback, you are able to see yourself in slow motion and also in semi-blurred realtime. It’s a really great effect. You can interact with the history of yourself, creating little animations between the two of your for example.
It will randomly play back slow motion footage taken from the period of the exhibition over a number of months. This creates an unusual ghostly form, making you like behind to see if someone is really stood behind you. It also makes you aware that anything you do will be left for future visitors, so I started doing things that might get a response from people later on. Along with showing visitors from the past, UVA also included objects from the use of the room back in the day, such as a desk and chair, a clock, some flowers on the floor and ever so often, a chicken will appear. This really gives a sense of looking into the past, and you can begin to interact with the objects that don’t even exist.
The super slow motion was beautiful, seeing changes to muscles in the face, or cloth slowly falling back into place. I spent an hour with the piece, trying out various dances and movements, interacting with people from the past and leaving future messages. It’s really hard to explain, so I will update the post when video documentation appears.
If you are interested in the use of slow motion, look at the work of Bill Viola. I am a big fan of his work, in particular ‘Five Angels for the Millennium’.
As always of course, there are also slow motion clips on Youtube of things exploding (unrelated to the above).
Found on pixelsumo
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