DIGI-C

I started with the idea of our increasing appetite for media consumption. The industry simply can’t keep up.

Mixed media has been on my mind for a long time now and I wanted to try some things out. One of them is based on a technique I used a while back that involved mapping the colours of photos.

This is the first experiment that really started this whole thing (it evolves slowly over time):

The video above would be the foundation for this project. I continued making simple black and white animations, here are some examples:

Some are better than others but in the end I used most of them. Some of them are not recognizable though because they weren’t as strong as I had hoped. These are warped with digital effects to make other interesting images, for example this one:

And the latter was used for some nice flashes, while looking like an array of pixels.

I picked appropriate music. These clips were combined in an edit accompanied by a sped up techno track which I did not make myself. This gives the feeling of incomprehensible media consumption (at least that’s my intention). I really wanted a section where the whole thing was going in slow-motion, to let the viewer calm down a bit. This also enlarges the contrast between the different speeds.

The whole thing is also looped so in theory you can watch this all day if you’re one of those media-hungry persons.