This work, which takes its title from Paul Virilio’s publication of the same name, explores notions of the cinematic in relation to recent global history, with particular focus on the role of the media in conveying information and events into the home via the medium of the television. Virilio’s thesis upon cinema and temporal experience proposed that ‘with the cinematic accelerator…the measure of the world becomes that of the vector of movement, of the means of locomotion that desynchronize time’. Notions of heightened speed and the distortion of perception are conveyed visually in the work by the rapidity of images and their intense colouration.
Notes by Rachel Kent, reprinted courtesy of the author and d/Lux Media Arts.
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ACMI Identifier
B2001502
Audience classification
Mediatheque - all ages (ACMI classified)
Subject category
Digital Art
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Object Types
Artwork
Materials
Single channel moving image, colour and audio
Holdings
MOV file H264; ACMI Digital Access Copy - presentation