video lounge
time to reclaim (one of) my crown(s) – in the article muddle instead of video i critise the approach to the video content and form of the show – here is where i come from: a 25 TV installation – followed by a 100 TV installation all around the dance floor – both at The Fridge club – london – uk – in the mid 80′s – inspire by nam june paik and the work i had been doing at the london film makers co-op -
apart from having built it i also ran it twice a week – feeding it with my own visuals as well as those of fellow video artists – this led to the creation of scratch video – a technique exactly similar to record scratching – and culminating in a season at the ica in london – curated by andy lipman and myself -
in the Flash animation example below they are 25 screens – not all screens need be the right way up – some can be on their sides or upside down – further not all screens need showing the same content – by creating small banks of 5 screens each i can feed 5 different content to each bank using 5 different video players and routers/splitter – and not all screens belonging to a particlar bank need be next to one another – simple init!
