weaving moment
BY BEC CONRAD, akiko hatakeyama, cho-tao huang
as part of the energy propagated:
a data visceralization research group project
exhibited: isea, vancouver, ca 2015
medium: video
VCRs, VHS tapes, analog monitors, and glass bottles.
The world we stand in at this moment only exists once. We’ve always desired to capture, preserve, and replicate it, but nothing is truly the same. Weaving Moments is an act of a semi-automatic system that captures, overrides, and distorts the moment. The air, the space, and the presence of people - anything there influences how it is “replicated”. The obsolete technology of audio-visual recording is still adequately functionable; however, when it is altered to function in a new way, its physical form has to be changed, unlike many digital means. The system of three VCRs connected to run a tape loop is now unstable and requires human assistance. The loop visualizes time passing, propagation of energy, and presence and deterioration of physical matter. People must use keen senses of hearing, seeing, and touching to run the system, almost naturing. This is an interaction between the dying technology and people, performing together to attempt to capture and manipulate moments by rebonding.
- Akiko Hatakeyama, PhD candidate Brown University
The world we stand in at this moment only exists once. We’ve always desired to capture, preserve, and replicate it, but nothing is truly the same. Weaving Moments is an act of a semi-automatic system that captures, overrides, and distorts the moment. The air, the space, and the presence of people - anything there influences how it is “replicated”. The obsolete technology of audio-visual recording is still adequately functionable; however, when it is altered to function in a new way, its physical form has to be changed, unlike many digital means. The system of three VCRs connected to run a tape loop is now unstable and requires human assistance. The loop visualizes time passing, propagation of energy, and presence and deterioration of physical matter. People must use keen senses of hearing, seeing, and touching to run the system, almost naturing. This is an interaction between the dying technology and people, performing together to attempt to capture and manipulate moments by rebonding.
- Akiko Hatakeyama, PhD candidate Brown University