From: Sam Wells (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Sep 06 2005 - 06:55:41 PDT
On Tuesday, September 6, 2005, at 07:53 AM, Michael Betancourt wrote:
> , but sooner or later somone chimes in with BUT ITS FILM!!!!! and the
> same things get said over and over again. This the source of the
> problem.
No it isn't. Film isn't a problem for Michael Bay or The Penguins
either.
I mean pianos are a problem, big heavy expensive - hard to tune. So in
the pop music world, they're replaced by Roland, Yamaha Digital etc.
But acoustic pianos are still played, music performed.
> So the choice isn't between one medium and another, but between one
> way or working and making and criticisimg and another--which has
> already supplaned ag film in a lot of ways, and continues to do so
> because ag film and the people who promote it promote an utterly
> narrow view that is a losing game in the long term.
But I still don't know what you're proposing, aside from "not saying
the same things over and over" and "the need to work in new ways"
What ARE the new ways (and why are they new ?)
Honestly, don't take this the wrong way, but what I seem to be hearing
is "I want a stream of NEW things to write criticism about"
If you're dissatisfied, join the supply side !
> The issue that I am concerned with is how the work is seen by the
> audience: given the presentation of video art, seeing work from the ag
> film tradition in that way seems far more destructive and bad for the
> movie shown that showing it on film or video because it changes the
> audience relation to the work, how much of it they see and what they
> understand. Video art is essentially motion wallpaper, varieties of
> suclpture, etc. rather than a construction that an audience watches
> the way they watch an ag film otr any other movie.
If it's not a dark room the image washes out, true for film true for
video.
Bad acoustics don't care if the sound through the PA was analog or
digital.
Sony Qualia HD projector weighs 80 lbs. etc.
I want a magic solution too, a perfect digital image that will appear
before me in the air like a genie.
However.....
(should we get Michael Bay in on this discussion ?)
-Sam
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