VIDEO AS A SOURCE OF LIGHT

LIGHT ATTACK!

‘uses a custom mobile projection setup installed in a car
to project an animated virtual character onto the cityscape.
Short pre-recorded video loops are arranged into seamless motion
patterns by the computer software, allowing interaction with the
architecture and passers-by in real-time.’

More from Studio Daniel Sauter.

We must desperately seek this next step where all arts will combine skills and crafts towards the creation of events. Whenever we see this happen it is very satisfactory; like in the videos there have been lately where a few people begin to dance and then all the people in the video end up being part of a choreography too!

For me the main thing about contemporary art is that it is defined by the quest for a new form; and in doing that many artists have made use of video in various ways. This in fact is creating a new way to see but also a new way to participate in the artistic event. I think participation is the key so that the audience does not feel like in a museum seeing objects on a pedestal and the artist does not feel like being the object on the pedestal.

Audience participation and involvement is the key to communal construction of sense and sense memory. In terms of video installation or better, the use of video for the purpose of the communicative purposes of the contemporary artist, I must say that we must remember that primarily projected video is light and as such it should be treated.

Video might contain very interesting images but I would like to use it in my own work mainly as a source of light to generate a different kind of narrative when projected onto an architectural or organic (human?) surface...or by creating an architecture with light with which the human performer can interact and also invite a viewer to participate in it.