Landskaber

Video 2006/07

Playing time: 3 min. 59 sec.
Resolution: 720 x 576 / 25 fps. (PAL DVD / 16:9).
Concept and programming: Mogens Jacobsen.
Photography: Jacobsen

New Media? How long will a new thing stay new? Perhaps ideas, views, motifs and questions are better preserved than technology and media. The last few years I have been working by removing defining layers from new media: Remove the screen-image, remove the interface and the interaction. What remains is a kernel of computation. What will computation do to “old” media?
In this video I work with computation and one of the oldest – and most conservative – subject matters.

The two screen start at a parallel showing of what remind us of a landscape passing by a train window. After a while the lines are getting displaced. The field become the sky and vice versa. The spatial representation of a landscape disappears and the screens become living stripes, which the spectator battles to preserve as one total structure. What we thought was a form of nature is reviled as only a screen formed by our own ideas.
[The exhibition] asks existential questions; Who are we? Where are we? And what creates our reality?
Sanne Flyvbjerg in “Aarhus.nu”