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The
title of this show refers to the means by which film, video and
multimedia fool the human eye into seeing moving images. Physician,
scientist and educator Paul Mark Roget both discovered the first
theory of persistence of vision and produced the first thesaurus.
Since that time his early work in both optics and language has
been explored by artists and scientists alike. This exhibition
brings together artists whose work explores the relationship
between moving image and text, both through the physical means
by which an image is passed from our eye to our brain and also
through the relationship of text to narrative and dialogue in
moving images.
In the work of Manuel Acevedo and Semonara Chowdhury it is the
text itself which moves. In the flick books and video works of
the respective artists
words move across the page and screen to form meaning. In Graham Gussin's
piece, 'Untitled Film', the text inserts from over twenty different
movies are projected as a sequence of still images, taking them
as moments of
locating and shifting in time and space. Whilst Richard Flint's 'Approximate',
an audio insatllation using digital video, uses a randomisation of
homophones, words which have the same sound but different meanings
or spellings,
captured from terrestrial television. In all of these works the viewer
plays a vital role. The works use time and movement to play with the
gaps between the written word and what is seen or heard and we are
left to project our own experiences and meanings.
Exhibition supported by the Midland Band Curatorial Development
Programme.
'Approximate' has been produced with the support
of an Arts Council of England Digital Arts and Disabled People
Bursary 2000.
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