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Mike Hall Video
documentation of fine art works, performance, and
critical historic events of the third millennium
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A portfolio of video productions, visual imagery and writings that challenge convention and explore alternative forms of perception
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light exhibits the properties of a fluid substance, and can be sculpted with the hands
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this really happened
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a study in conventional video feedback
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By connecting a video camera to a large LCD television and aiming the camera almost directly at the center of the screen, patterns emerge that to some extent can be shaped and molded with the hands. This is due to a tendency for the video stream to achieve equilibrium of overall brightness when the camera´s auto-exposure feature is enabled. The color variations were brought about by maximizing the color saturation and balance controls on the television screen. When the highest level of stability has been achieved, a gelatinous entity takes form, which exhibits life-like qualities. The colors that undulate over what appears to be a three-dimensional surface shimmer as if composed of some liquid substance.
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Color cycling occurs when the “color balance” of either the camera or the projector is out of alignment to some significant degree. Each generation of image emitted by the display turns the color wheel ever so slightly, which causes the perceived rainbow effect. My hands dampen this tendency because their color and their relatively low reflective coefficient are not sufficient to sustain a full cycle of the color wheel. The bright spot on the display screen, by contrast, is not limited in any way and follows a path of least resistance from one hue to the next. The colors travel across a two-dimensional surface in tightly local patterns that exhibit a consistent viscosity as suggested by their motion. Pinwheels occur as local singularities that revolve around their own dark centers, acting almost like black holes in space.
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