vog (a BETA videoblog)

An experiment that didn't work. This was the widest work I'd made to this point and it is a messy sort of collage that picks up the recent things that was interested in noise and in interfaces and links not being transparent and instrumental. There was also a graphic layer with a transparency that I then played tiled video within. Yes, it is tongue in cheek and was an effort to parody something about online video as being little more than glorified TV, but it really doesn't work.

Mousing into the channel selector on the TV changes channels, since the image doesn't change I added a sound effect to the button but it is awful. And the content is irrelevant and pretty dull. All round not much of an idea and poorly realised to boot.

From the original blog post:

the gallery and the museum. sorry national gallery and national museum.

an interactive work that seemed a good idea at the time but once made, well, not so sure.

to use it click the channel selector on the tv set. there are two clips that you can load, one is stuff shot at the gallery, the other at the museum. they are tiled videos since when i made them i thought they would have the more usual forms of the vogs, but i got interested in sort of skinning the movies and wrapping them into something else.

the collage work that surrounds the tv i find much more interesting. it comes from the recent,in retrospect very obvious, realisation that the frame of the vog didn't have to be the same as the frame of the video. this is part of the same progression that saw me realise that the text i wanted as part of the movies didn't need to lie on the page, like this, but could be inside the movie as text tracks, and user controllable (so next time i think i'll move all this text into the movie too...). so i made a series of collages for this canberra trilogy that the video is a part of, and embedded within, and the collage is certainly part of the movie, though not a movie.

the first knob on the tv also varies the sound, but it is very clunky to use. if i did this again (but hey they're experiments and the masterpiece is dead, right?) i'd do the video very differently.

oh, and it's another bit of visual literalism. a tv (which is a drawing so not really a real tv is it?) which lets you swap channels, channels with a K for culture.