Visual-Poetry

Date: December 14th, 2009

Lizzy read a poem about a ‘passage about the tear between perspective and reality’. Perception of an event versus an objective reality, and how these moments are recalled or exist.

A slide projector is coordinated with a HD video project so that blacked out portions of the video are replaced with a slideshow projector showing a slide. Lizzy's piece emphasis the usage of music and mechanical sounds to interweave with the high-definition video.

Lizzy wants to incite confusion as to whether the sound and the image are in sync. She believes that waiting for the image during the black out portions brings anticipation.

Critique:

Steven Cummings: Imagery was all over the place but held together. “Salsa music had a repeatable quality to it. The poem was something in my head?”

Lizzy Brooks: I choose to use black and white images because it would create less visual information.

Everyone else agreed that the color images even with more information made it more engaging. Long exposure related to more of the concept of time.

John McNeil: The ‘problem’ with the color diffusion reminded me of a family photo.

Micah Walter: The aesthetic was built really well together.

Timothy Druckrey: The sound is really hard to actually get the full grasp of the story. From music to story that is broken to music is compressed and needs to allow the audience to understand it is establishment. Video quality is negotiable but what matters is the emphasis on the transition. To play on the photographic memory and video memory – to film the photographic images to where the characters in the video and photo become indistinguishable. What you want to do is question what is being watched. Digital image? Film image? Film video?