Michael Snow - digitalSnow (2002)
Monday, March 24, 2008
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The opening interface is an excerpt from a sequence in Rameau’s Nephew by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen (1974) - a fifteen-minute sequence from which key frames have been extracted. In showing the tools that Michael Snow uses, the sequence demonstrates a particular dimension of the artist’s work, which incorporates various materials and media. It also explores possible links between perception and different means of transmitting perception, notably language and technology (in this instance cinema and photography). The objects placed on this table, continually moved by the artist, will act as gateways into the database of the artist’s work and, depending on the grouping, will take you to different sections of the DVD.
Sections and elements of the DVD:
* 4800 entries in the database
* 799 documented works
* 60 film or video excerpts
* 57 texts on the artist
* More than 40 soundtracks: sound pieces, jam sessions from Snow and the CCMC
* 6 main interfaces
* Texts from the artist
* Notes and drawings from the artist
* Animation and simulation installations in 2D/3D
* Reproductions of photographic works
* Bibliography, directories and search tools (databases)
Other film excerpts:
* Telescope 70: Snow in Venice: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, TV Archives, Toronto
* Toronto Jazz: réalisation Don Owen, 1963, Office national du film du Canada, Montréal
* Snowblind: réalisation Hollis Frampton, 1968
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