Katriona Beales

My latest video in a series embracing information excess. Rather than contesting the acceleration of information and the proliferation of images I desire to embrace panic, excess, proliferation, overload and attempt to re-enact this emphatically. I intentionally abandon all notion of narrative, gleefully overlapping and interrupting short videos with others totally out of place or context, not as a way of building a unity of meaning but as a way of reflecting on acceleration.

I overlap myriad pop-up windows on a computer screen. In each window is a different video - my own footage from Tokyo, Florence and the UK. All the videos playing together overload the computer's memory both audio and video stutter and start. The overlapped audio from the myriad of films becomes overloud, uncomfortable and unknowable meaning subsumed within a whole lot of noise. "The media experiencer can no longer be figured as a 'spectator' standing apart from and overlooking a homogenous visual field. Rather he or she must parse multiple, windowed image sources as rhythmic patterns and as information fields" ['Post-Cinematic' by Shaviro (2009) p.81].

This video was made supported by the CCW Artists Moving Image Initiative Film Fund 2011-12 and a residency at Tokyo Wonder Site in March 2012.