
Second of the “tool-being'” series. What new insights would we have of our experiences if humans and tools/machines are understood as an assemblage, coming into the presence of each other to seek collaborative possibilities? Abby Yuen reveals how her abstract video of foams was the result of a sound machine she made.

More wavering thought paths… Is remembering the same as nostalgia? What does street photography remember? Shall I be pretty, shall I be loved? What would happen to to me when I die? There are moments when you must spit it out… #4 D-Normal/V-Essay online video zine, collected and edited by Linda Lai. 記住就是懷舊了嗎?街頭攝影可記住的是甚麼?我長大後會漂亮嗎?會有人愛我嗎?我死了以後會怎樣?有些事情,確實不吐不快。… 黎肖嫻蒐集彙編,更多搖擺的思路。《平地數碼》網上錄像誌第4期。
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One Take, many iterations (2000-2020) One Take A digital video by Linda Lai Image & voice performance: Linda Lai Automatic writings generated by One Take – Polyphony 一天,突然好想逃離這個世界。 眼前的澳門文化中心斜流,六月晚晝和暖的陽光,水流淌散於橫紋石屎的肌理上再人工不過 。手不覺間在搖而沒有終止的意願,六分鐘的數碼錄像,在隨意不拘的弧線運轉之中以單鏡頭變化出蒙太奇和剪接的幻象。我盪得心也開了,破口處滲溢的,彷彿都是綿綿歲月的茵陳細碎瑣事。在快慢門和色溫光圈的不加思索變易下,涓流滑動的水精靈誘我領我尋索那已失散多年的音韻。大調元音、五度在捉迷藏。 我發聲,所以我存在。 有聲無韻。 至於我失去的是甚麼聲甚麼韻,我還在尋找。 One Take (originally in three parts) seeks to experiment the relation between image and sound by juxtaposing different soundscapes against the same set of […]
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The world is waiting to be animated.
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Visual abstraction opens up more worlds: Reality appears to shimmer through the layers of its decomposition…
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