The Film and how it Works.Film Works…
So the DVD player and the digital projector become sculptural objects, through their role as image producing machines. Image making machines become objects and the objects become subjects thereof. Certain artists seem to be making a feature of the workings of actual image production and presentation. Certain artists seem to be making specific use of a cine-film projector, presenting its presence as an actual sculptural and animated entity. This is what I am interested and prospectively engaged in. I feel like I need to wrap televisions in order to signify them as sculptural, and in order to separate them as individual entities… I like how televisions can be used as 3-dimensional objects that can then contain 2-dimensional information. There is a certain dialogue that happens when they are presented as actual artworks. This dialogue happens through the negotiation between illusion and physicality through presentation. The subject of the televisions (other than that they are themselves) is the content that is shown upon them, and this content should always refer to other drawings and evidence apart.
However what happens when the very content is the subject of the object within which it is shown? Is it therefore within or actually upon? It is interesting how the projectable space, through its illusion in light, acts as an actual boundary within which something is confined. It is this confined space that is then explore-able in its changeability in actual space:
Two different coloured tapes will be used to begin this exploration. One will unwind up to the other which begins unwound; the second then winds up after collision with the first. The frame in which the film is projected (or the composition in which the content is edited) acts as a boundary for where to tape can extend to. This boundary therefore prevents the second tape from overrunning the perceivable space and acts as a wall upon which the second tape bounces off and then begins to wind itself back into its original state, thus the cycle starts all over again as a reflection of itself.
