Digital Erosions (2023)
This project explores the intangible aspects of deep time and scale by using archive footage of ecological elements like the sky, earth, and sea. The videos highlight the interplay between large-scale planetary phenomena and smaller, discrete entities through time-lapse effects and digital deconstruction. The goal is to prompt viewers to contemplate deep time and scale while emphasizing the need for attention and care towards our environment. By distorting and layering the footage, the project aims to engage the senses and make the viewer feel connected to the depicted elements.
Video Stats:
Video Length: 3:47
Video Size: 12MB
Encoding Time ~1:40
Song: The Caretaker - A Stairway To The Stars
Media are perhaps most interesting when they reveal what defies materialization. The waves and the winds bear up or destroy ships. The flame's greatest service is to convert matter into other forms or to make it vanish altogether. The sky has resisted almost all human artifice and yet has always been at the heart of human knowledge. No one has yet figured out how to store time or save the body from sickness and death, though efforts to do so constitute the history of our archival and medical techniques. The history of media is the history of the productive impossibility of capturing what exists.
John Durham Peters, The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media.