TRANSMEDIA :29:59
media art in public urban space
http://www.year01.com/transmedia2959

September 1 - 30th, 2005
YONGE-DUNDAS SQUARE, Toronto

29th minute: Pascual Sisto - '28 YEARS IN THE IMPLICATE ORDER'
59th minute: Luke Lamborn - 'UTOPIA'

Year Zero One is pleased to present TRANSMEDIA :29:59, a year long
exhibition on the pedestrian level video billboard at Yonge-Dundas
Square in downtown Toronto. Launched August 1st 2005, TRANSMEDIA :29:59
features one minute video works 24/7 every half hour on the 29th and
59th minutes.

Featured for the month of September is Pascual Sisto's '28 Years in the
Implicate Order' & Luke Lamborn's 'Utopia'.

Pascual Sisto's '28 Year in the Implicate Order' is a work based on the
concepts of Quantum Theory and Quantum Mechanics as described by David
Bohm. The video consists of a fixed locked off shot of an empty parking
lot. A centered sodium vapor light illuminates the desolate landscape.
28 red balls bounce up and down in a chaotic random order. Each ball
performing as an individual entity bouncing at its own rate and speed.
As the video progresses towards its mid point, the balls align
themselves in a harmonious blanket. Breathing in and out as a
cumulative frequency, they reach the point where they all bounce at the
same precise moment and then resume to go back into chaos.m.

Luke Lamborn's 'Utopia' Analyzes the idea of clean, perfect, and
tireless machinery couched in the unstable landscape of reality. Utopia
functions as a perpetual motion machine, performing as a stable power
source, regardless of inconsistencies in the wind. It is a utopian
vision of wind power. Utopia was created through a motion-tracking
program written in Max/MSP using footage of a wind turbine shot in
central New York. Three identical clips of the turbine are superimposed
upon each other, all playing at different speeds. The speed of the
clips are regulated by the propeller rotation of the first clip which
slows down, stops, and gains momentum in varying spurts during the
course of the taping. If the blade slows down, the speed of the
superimposed footage speeds up to compensate. As the speed of this
second clip accelerates, the speed of the third clip declines. Thus,
the mean rotation rate always remains constant. The three dots at the
bottom indicate the speed of each clip and blink when the propeller
blade reaches the apex of its rotation. In essence, Utopia is a video
that is generated based upon it's own content.



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network for the dissemination of digital culture and new media through
web based exhibitions, site-specific public art projects, an extensive
media arts directory, and the Year01 Forum.

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