Sunday, April 6, 2008

stephen jones and the brain project

http://www.culture.com.au/brain_proj/

i saw stephen jones speak in Auckland Art Gallery early last year and found him to be one of the most inspiring people i have ever heard speak apart from the brain project he was also in a band called 'severed heads'which began in the 1980`s

these are my notes

video art and the history of video.
he showed mainly his own art including music (electronic) video`s

"video has always been an interdisciplinary force, partaking of a wide range of approaches from the deconstruction of television to the documentation of performances to visual music to installation to narritive"


conceptual background: the Systems Theory derived from the similarity and inter-relationship of cybernetics and biology

(#i must say it took me a good few days to truly absorb or decipher what he said because every sentence just seemed so jam packed with concepts and i was computor literate disabled...hmmm is that politcally correct should i say... disadvantaged.... isnt that worse? anyway)

video is written across the screen, as opposed to film being scanned narratively (slide by slide) which produces a storyline.

video is interactive and is a communication between the artist and the video...

(so i figured that this must be to do with video being a form of computor and our ability to go inside and rewrite programmes etc? if you think i`m wrong let me know, it took a long time of pondering to come up with that one!)

Stephen Jones was one of the first people to use video as a form of art - and to use video.

he was inspired by people like Nicholas Sheen (the first video artist in Australia amd Buckminster Fulla in the 1970`s (German)

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