I am exploring the way music alters or enhances the perception of our environment. This creative project allows me to explore and visualize several issues that intrigue me: music (sound), emotion, and visual imagery (film). My goal in developing this topic is to allow others to have an experience related to sound and image, where image is altered and enhanced by the use of music.

Ce travail vise à questionner les outils méthodologiques et les fondations théoriques de l’activité de restauration afin de les appliquer à un corpus d’œuvres souvent laissé aux marges des discours de ce champ disciplinaire : le film d’artiste et le film expérimental. On se focalisera sur les années 1960-1980 pour traiter, entre autres, du travail de Bruce Conner, Carolee Schneemann, Anthony McCall, Paul Sharits. Conçu et organisé comme un dialogue possible entre les exigences de systématisation théorique et les spécificités des œuvres, ce travail défend une méthodologie ouverte et dynamique, à l’instar des objets considérés. Dans le parcours esquissé, qui s’appuie sur des recherches en archives, on traitera de questions de reconstruction textuelle (à partir de la philologie d’auteur), de la performance et de l’installation, de l’intervention sur la matière des œuvres (en problématisant les positions du théoricien de la restauration Cesare Brandi), ou encore de l’obsolescence technologique. En mobilisant des concepts issus de champs différents mais qu’on aimerait considérer ici comme complémentaires (histoire de l’art, esthétique, histoire technique du film), cette recherche tente de décrire l’activité herméneutique sous-jacente à toute entreprise de restauration. C’est à partir de cette hypothèse des liens entre théorie et pratique que l’on envisagera les enjeux spécifiques qui accompagnent la transmission des objets filmiques. / This dissertation aims to question the methodological tools and theoretical foundations of the practice of restoration in order to apply them to a body of work often left at the margins of this disciplinary field: experimental and artists’ film. Focusing on the years 1960-1980, it will examine works by Bruce Conner, Carolee Schneemann, Anthony McCall, and Paul Sharits, among others. Conceived and organized as a possible dialogue between theoretical assessment and the practical necessities of specific works, this research defends an open and dynamic methodology of restoration much like the objects herein considered. Through archival research, this dissertation will confront issues of textual reconstruction (starting from literary philology), performance and installation, scholarly debates concerning the materiality of artworks (problematizing the positions of restoration theorist Cesare Brandi), and the question of technological obsolescence. Mobilizing concepts from different fields considered as complementary (art history, aesthetics, the technological history of film), this dissertation seeks to describe the hermeneutical activity underlying any restoration process. It is starting from this hypothesis, which links theory and practice, that it will consider the specific issues accompanying the life of filmic objects. / Il lavoro si propone di mettere in discussione gli strumenti metodologici e le basi teoriche dell’attività di restauro, al fine di volgersi a un corpus spesso considerato come marginale nella letteratura scientifica inerente alla disciplina: il film d’artista e sperimentale. Ci si concentrerà in particolare sugli anni 1960-1980 per analizzare, tra gli altri, la produzione di Bruce Conner, Carolee Schneemann, Anthony McCall, Paul Sharits. La tesi, concepita e costruita come un possibile dialogo tra l’esigenza di sistematizzazione teorica e le caratteristiche specifiche delle opere, promuove una metodologia aperta e dinamica, adattandosi dunque agli oggetti considerati. In un percorso che si vuole teorico, ma ugualmente frutto di ricerche in archivio, si tratteranno problemi di ricostruzione testuale (basandosi sulla filologia d’autore), questioni riguardanti la performance e l’installazione, interventi sulla materia delle opere (sulla scorta di una rilettura critica della Teoria del restauro di Cesare Brandi), o ancora il problema dell’obsolescenza tecnologica. La ricerca tende a includere e adattare concetti provenienti da diverse discipline (storia dell’arte, estetica, storia tecnologica del film, qui considerate come complementari), per poter infine descrivere l’attività di restauro come operazione ermeneutica. Muovendo da un’ipotesi di lavoro che unisce teoria e pratica, la ricerca affronta i problemi specifici relativi alla “trasmissione al futuro” delle opere filmiche.

Digital art installation is the result of informatic materials entering gallery spaces and challenging the establishment of media forms. This thesis contends that the open, recursive and recombinatory process of looking at digital installation is in fact the result of noisy relations between information and the spatial temporal contexts of the art gallery. In order to focus on the processes of informatic materials within gallery spaces, this thesis identifies four key modulations of noise and materiality ? emergence, feedback, entropy and delay. I demonstrate how these impact on a range of recent digital installations by Australian and New Zealand artists. The lens of digital materiality shifts from an informational context into that of art history where it is found to highlight the systemic relationality of the installation. The thesis opens with a consideration of histories of media-specificity, and argues for a necessary separation of our concepts of media and materiality. This context provides a set of tools by which the remainder of the thesis investigates a range of digital material flows that are not tied to fixed media definitions. I draw on a range of theorists including Umberto Eco, Gilles Deleuze, Claude Shannon and Jack Burnham to further locate these material flows within two strands: experimental sound and information theory. This discussion forms the basis of the thesis? re-appraisal of media distinctions and highlights the complex relationship of informational materials to both sonic and visual histories. The second half of the thesis undertakes an appraisal of emergence, feedback, entropy and delay in specific works and suggests dimensionality, movement and duration as key determinants of the digital installation. These chapters demonstrate that what is at stake in digital installation is the viewer?s implicit role in the shifting relationships of digital materiality. Overall, this thesis presents a framework for emergent materiality in digital installation. I develop a theory of emergent materiality as a process specific to digital installation, and argue that digital installation is in fact a subject-forming assemblage of information-noise in which relations of dimensionality, movement and duration coalesce without cohering. And, within which gallery spaces begin to get noisy.

The Birth is a multi-media video installation inspired by my personal experiences of a miscarriage and the births of my two children. The work is influenced by the mythologies found in Korean culture that focus on the mother figure as a ¡°Great Mother¡±. She is an ¡°ideal woman¡±, a ¡°good mother¡± and a ¡°sincere wife¡±. Working abstractly across the media of painting, video, digital animation, and the paintings of my son, The Birth exploits metaphors and symbols, to tell the story of women, especially the stories of mothers. The work speaks to motherly love and my own identity as an artist and a mother.

Digital art installation is the result of informatic materials entering gallery spaces and challenging the establishment of media forms. This thesis contends that the open, recursive and recombinatory process of looking at digital installation is in fact the result of noisy relations between information and the spatial temporal contexts of the art gallery. In order to focus on the processes of informatic materials within gallery spaces, this thesis identifies four key modulations of noise and materiality ? emergence, feedback, entropy and delay. I demonstrate how these impact on a range of recent digital installations by Australian and New Zealand artists. The lens of digital materiality shifts from an informational context into that of art history where it is found to highlight the systemic relationality of the installation. The thesis opens with a consideration of histories of media-specificity, and argues for a necessary separation of our concepts of media and materiality. This context provides a set of tools by which the remainder of the thesis investigates a range of digital material flows that are not tied to fixed media definitions. I draw on a range of theorists including Umberto Eco, Gilles Deleuze, Claude Shannon and Jack Burnham to further locate these material flows within two strands: experimental sound and information theory. This discussion forms the basis of the thesis? re-appraisal of media distinctions and highlights the complex relationship of informational materials to both sonic and visual histories. The second half of the thesis undertakes an appraisal of emergence, feedback, entropy and delay in specific works and suggests dimensionality, movement and duration as key determinants of the digital installation. These chapters demonstrate that what is at stake in digital installation is the viewer?s implicit role in the shifting relationships of digital materiality. Overall, this thesis presents a framework for emergent materiality in digital installation. I develop a theory of emergent materiality as a process specific to digital installation, and argue that digital installation is in fact a subject-forming assemblage of information-noise in which relations of dimensionality, movement and duration coalesce without cohering. And, within which gallery spaces begin to get noisy.

Digital art installation is the result of informatic materials entering gallery spaces and challenging the establishment of media forms. This thesis contends that the open, recursive and recombinatory process of looking at digital installation is in fact the result of noisy relations between information and the spatial temporal contexts of the art gallery. In order to focus on the processes of informatic materials within gallery spaces, this thesis identifies four key modulations of noise and materiality ? emergence, feedback, entropy and delay. I demonstrate how these impact on a range of recent digital installations by Australian and New Zealand artists. The lens of digital materiality shifts from an informational context into that of art history where it is found to highlight the systemic relationality of the installation. The thesis opens with a consideration of histories of media-specificity, and argues for a necessary separation of our concepts of media and materiality. This context provides a set of tools by which the remainder of the thesis investigates a range of digital material flows that are not tied to fixed media definitions. I draw on a range of theorists including Umberto Eco, Gilles Deleuze, Claude Shannon and Jack Burnham to further locate these material flows within two strands: experimental sound and information theory. This discussion forms the basis of the thesis? re-appraisal of media distinctions and highlights the complex relationship of informational materials to both sonic and visual histories. The second half of the thesis undertakes an appraisal of emergence, feedback, entropy and delay in specific works and suggests dimensionality, movement and duration as key determinants of the digital installation. These chapters demonstrate that what is at stake in digital installation is the viewer?s implicit role in the shifting relationships of digital materiality. Overall, this thesis presents a framework for emergent materiality in digital installation. I develop a theory of emergent materiality as a process specific to digital installation, and argue that digital installation is in fact a subject-forming assemblage of information-noise in which relations of dimensionality, movement and duration coalesce without cohering. And, within which gallery spaces begin to get noisy.

Digital art installation is the result of informatic materials entering gallery spaces and challenging the establishment of media forms. This thesis contends that the open, recursive and recombinatory process of looking at digital installation is in fact the result of noisy relations between information and the spatial temporal contexts of the art gallery. In order to focus on the processes of informatic materials within gallery spaces, this thesis identifies four key modulations of noise and materiality ? emergence, feedback, entropy and delay. I demonstrate how these impact on a range of recent digital installations by Australian and New Zealand artists. The lens of digital materiality shifts from an informational context into that of art history where it is found to highlight the systemic relationality of the installation. The thesis opens with a consideration of histories of media-specificity, and argues for a necessary separation of our concepts of media and materiality. This context provides a set of tools by which the remainder of the thesis investigates a range of digital material flows that are not tied to fixed media definitions. I draw on a range of theorists including Umberto Eco, Gilles Deleuze, Claude Shannon and Jack Burnham to further locate these material flows within two strands: experimental sound and information theory. This discussion forms the basis of the thesis? re-appraisal of media distinctions and highlights the complex relationship of informational materials to both sonic and visual histories. The second half of the thesis undertakes an appraisal of emergence, feedback, entropy and delay in specific works and suggests dimensionality, movement and duration as key determinants of the digital installation. These chapters demonstrate that what is at stake in digital installation is the viewer?s implicit role in the shifting relationships of digital materiality. Overall, this thesis presents a framework for emergent materiality in digital installation. I develop a theory of emergent materiality as a process specific to digital installation, and argue that digital installation is in fact a subject-forming assemblage of information-noise in which relations of dimensionality, movement and duration coalesce without cohering. And, within which gallery spaces begin to get noisy.

EXPRMNTL fut probablement la plus importante manifestation jamais consacrée au cinéma expérimental. Conçu et organisé par Jacques Ledoux et la Cinémathèque royale de Belgique, le festival de Knokke / Bruxelles, qui ne connut que cinq éditions (1949, 1958, 1963, 1967, 1974) jouit aujourd'hui d'un statut mythique. Cette initiative singulière et inclassable fut bien davantage qu'un simple festival de cinéma : un point de rencontre pour la création d'avant-garde et la pensée contemporaine, un événement placé sous le signe de l'imprévu, du désir et de la contestation, y compris celle du festival même. En somme : une manifestation à ce point cohérente avec son objet qu'elle fut en elle-même une expérience. Cette recherche retrace l'histoire des cinq éditions du festival, de sa naissance à sa disparition. Elle se fonde sur les archives de la manifestation, jusqu'ici inexplorées, sur les comptes-rendus parus dans la presse de l'époque et sur de nombreux entretiens avec des acteurs et témoins. / EXPRMNTL was probably the most important event ever devoted to experimental cinema. Designed and organized by Jacques Ledoux and the Royal Belgian Film Archives, the festival of Knokke / Brussels, which only had five editions (1949, 1958, 1963, 1967, 1974) now enjoys a mythical status. This unique and unclassifiable initiative was more than just a film festival: a meeting point for avant-garde culture and contemporary thinking, an event placed under the sign of the unexpected, desire and protest, including that of the festival itself. In short: an event so consistent with its object that it was in itself an experience. This research traces the history of the five editions of the festival. It is based on the hitherto unexplored archives of the event, the reports published in the press at the time and many interviews with protagonists and witnesses.

This diploma thesis deals with various possible ways in which the formalized expression of emotions that is characteristic of the melodramatic mode can be reinterpreted in the context of experimental cinema, with the work of the director Werner Schroeter being used as a main (but not exclusive) example. The main argument is based on two interrelated ideas. First, the melodramatic mode as a genre-bending category offers a wide repertory of stylistic features designed to express extreme emotional states or situations which can be encompassed by the term "melodramatic excess". This type of excess manifests itself most visibly in moments of intense passion when the plot breaks down and freezes in a static or symbolic arrangement, either through close-up or tableau vivant. All attention is thereby focused on the heroes' gestures and poses which express their emotional state face to face with an intense situation for which they cannot yet find an adequate response. Second, certain experimental films manage to transform the melodramatic excess through "expressive and performative operations" with filmic space, time and bodies, turning the exterior representation of emotions into the immanent expression of affects. In this case, affect is understood as a certain variation of emotions which demonstrates the...

Denna essä behandlar mitt masterprojekt "Oviss Väntan". Projektet resulterade i en videoinstallation bestående av animerade loopar som visades på två skärmar med hörlurar och en ljuddusch på Bildmuseet i Umeå, Sverige i maj 2021. Min uppsats börjar med en presentation av mig själv och min bakgrund som animatör. Jag beskriver min konstnärliga praktik, hur jag arbetar och vad jag har påverkats av. Detta följs av en presentation av själva projektet, där jag diskuterar viktiga delar av projektet, såsom teman och atmosfär, material, form och visualisering. Denna uppsats kommer att slutföras före utställningen på Bildmuseet. Därför kommer bilderna i uppsatsen att fokusera mer på processen och tillvägagångssättet än på det färdiga arbetet. Verket "Oviss väntan" bygger på en tanke om att alla fiktiva karaktärerfaktiskt existerar. Karaktärerna bor med varandra i ett hus där de väntar på att få användas. Filmen porträtterar detta hus, där karaktärerna är inhysta i de olika rummen. Genom animationens olika material och tekniker speglas deras väntan och önskan att göra sig redo för att komma ut i världen. Filmen förmedlar ett känsla av väntan men också av längtan. Jag tror att dessa teman har förstärkts av den rådande pandemin. En väntan som vi inte vet när den kommer att ta slut - om den ens slutar. Ett annat av mina teman är ensamhet. Denna ensamhet som kan finnas i en lägenhet även om endast väggar och golv skiljer oss från andra. Karaktärerna i filmen rör sig i loopar. Genom dessa loopar, tillsammans med musik, ljud och röster, rör sig filmen framåt. Rytmen och dess känsla skapar en form, och ett icke- narrativt berättande. En rörlig målning. / This thesis deals with my master’s degree project "Suspense" with the Swedish title “Oviss väntan". The project resulted in a video installation consisting of animated loops displayed on screens with headphones and a sound-shower at Bildmuseet in Umeå, Sweden in May 2021. My essay begins with a presentation of myself and my background as an animator. I describe my artistic practice, how I work and what I have been influenced by. This is followed by a presentation of the project itself, where I discuss important parts of the project, such as themes and atmosphere, materials, form and visualization. This essay will be completed before the exhibition at Bildmuseet. Therefore, the images in the essay will focus more on the process than on the finished work. "Suspense" is based on the idea that all fictional characters exist in real life. The characters live together in a fictional house where they are waiting to be used. The film portrays this house, where the characters are housed in the different rooms, with a variation in materials and animation techniques. The film conveys a mood of waiting but also of longing. I believe that these themes have been enhanced by the current pandemic. A suspense we do not know when it will end - if it even ends. Another of my themes is loneliness. This loneliness that can exist in an apartment even though only walls and floors separates us from others. The characters in the film will move in loops. Through these loops, along with music, sounds and voices, the film moves forward. The rhythm and its feeling will create a form, with a non-narrative structure. A moving painting.