For many years now, a question of identity has repeatedly arisen out of my art-making process. I am particularly concerned with the role memory has in relation to one's 'self' . My concerns are explored through the lens of ‘new media’ technologies which mediate and catalyse our actions into experience.
I wrote some code to enable the video camera to produce two outputs on the same screen with a time lapse between them (one of which is flipped on the x axis, like looking in the mirror), so operating in run time (live); meant I could face my past self. No editing or postproduction is used once they have been recorded.
My practice resulted in an embodied methodology or praxis for ‘experiential learning’ (Kolb), using methods of performance (or embodied action) documented by video recordings (sketches) presented via multimedia projection. The sketches comprise a list of ‘learning to... [do something]...with my past self/other’ statements from which to perform interactions. This process involves attention to spatial and temporal activities, namely action, memory and repetition. And of course as the medium I use also mediates me, it is actually quite difficult to perform simple interactions with someone who isn’t really there.
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