Transmission (2025 - 1 Minute 44 seconds)
Transmission is a short video that opens with a meticulously rendered sepia drawing of a fantastical machine, immediately immersing the viewer in a world of intricate invention. A digital glitch shortly follows introducing the first of two visitations, setting off a sequence of drawings which juxtapose 19th-century industrial design with fantastical, almost futuristic inventions, creating a timeless, anachronistic world. Subtle colours come and go in this visual collage.
Set against a backdrop of mechanical whirring, deep humming, indistinct human speech, and a pulsing rhythm, elements in the sound design are often synchronized with the kinetic energy of the animated drawings. A second figure joins us bookending the flow of invention, again framed by a digital rupture leaving us with birdsong.
Artist's Note on Process: The way I created Transmission was a direct reflection of its theme, fusing historical and contemporary digital media. Drawing from my own body of work created over many years, I processed selected material using an AI program, resulting in a uniform series of images and video clips, and separate audio clips were generated from the visuals as raw material for the soundtrack. I curated and assembled the video with overlapping slideshow images, video clips, and audio recordings, allowing the past to inform a cutting-edge digital present.
Movement & Light (2021 - 2 minutes 4 seconds)
This video compresses a 24-hour timespan at EBA into an abstraction of shifting colours and light. The work was created from hours and hours of time lapse footage from two surveillance cameras pointed 180 degrees from each other. The footage was then flipped and layered to incorporate an abstracted 100% view of the ceiling over the same time period.
In the trimmed down 2+ minute final version we see the deep red of nighttime with the activity of the street reflected inside gradually transition to the movement and light of artists being reflecting onto those same ceilings of now bright tones of yellow as the daylight streams in. The soundtrack was created from hours and hours of recording the building’s hot water boiler heating systems clack, rattle, and roar, lending a percussive rhythm that keeps time with the life of our creative building.
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