This project explores individuals in time through slit-scan.
Inspiration
Slit Scan–> I am fascinated by the possibilities of distorting the body, time, and space.
Slit Scan Archive: http://www.flong.com/archive/texts/lists/slit_scan/index.html
Alvaro Cassinelli & Masatoshi Ishikawa
“Alvaro & Ishikawa‘s Khronos Projector is a multi-faceted project exploring space-time representations from video. One manifestation is an interactive spatial browser for time-lapse sequences. Time-lapse photographic sequences are formed by taking a snapshot every minute, hour or day from a fixed camera shooting at a natural or artificial landscape. A ‘Time-Punch’ brings the night as a dark eye in the middle of the sky. More simply (and classically), a Spatio-temporal gradient can be formed on the image by selecting a plane temporal filter.”
System
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- Obtaining/ editing the footage,
- Generating a time displacement Map,
- Applying the map to my footage and creating the slit-scan effect in After Effect
Work 1: ME
Gradient Map:
Final Product (original footage from past work):
Work 2: ME + MOVEMENT in SPACE
Displacement Map:
Final Video:
Discussion and Evaluation: Slit-Scan in Videos
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- Explore narratives: how stories can be told through distortion of the body
- Against censorship: how slit-scan might “protect” certain video contents from internet censorship
- Challenge: After Effect difficulties
- More possibilities: photography/ videos with more calculation/design
Derek Burnett, “In the Spirit of Things” , Kansas album cover (1988)