D. N. Rodowick

An homage to Harun Farocki, who left us too soon. I hope this memory of a wonderful summer night in Berlin testifies to his openness and generosity.

""Southcote Road" was originally shot in super-8 with an intervalometer set to capture images at 1 fps. It was then blown up to 16mm and projected at 18fps. The work was made on the last day of a seven week trip to London as a record of the street where I lived. It was also one of only two sunny days during the entire summer . . . ." - D. N. Rodowick

Digitally animated movement, rhythmic abstraction leading to an elevator to nowhere; cyclical repetition producing optical music recalling Steve Reich or Terry Riley.

An early "walking" performance shot on super-8 in 1981.

Shot in London in the underpass the connects the IMAX theater to Waterloo station, "Waterloo" is part of a series of recent works that explore the limits of digital capture by setting up a series of formal parameters and then letting them play themselves out (almost) automatically in relation to randomizing elements. The capture rate is set at one frame per second, though sound is recorded in real time. Focus, exposure, and effective shutter speed are allowed to float and respond eccentrically to changing light levels, focal distances, and color temperatures in ways that produce a free play between figuration and abstraction. However, despite the abstract, painterly, and conceptual character of these images, the work is meant to be understood as a document responding to specific landscapes, situations, movements, trajectories, and durations.

THERE'S A BETTER WAY TO ATTRACT ATTENTION explores the limits of digital capture by setting up formal parameters and then letting them play themselves out automatically in relation to randomizing elements. The capture rate is set at one frame per second; sound is recorded in real time. Focus, exposure, and effective shutter speed float and respond eccentrically to changing light conditions in ways that produce a free play between figuration and abstraction.

An homage to Harun Farocki, who left us too soon. I hope this memory of a wonderful summer night in Berlin testifies to his openness and generosity.

""Southcote Road" was originally shot in super-8 with an intervalometer set to capture images at 1 fps. It was then blown up to 16mm and projected at 18fps. The work was made on the last day of a seven week trip to London as a record of the street where I lived. It was also one of only two sunny days during the entire summer . . . ." - D. N. Rodowick

Digitally animated movement, rhythmic abstraction leading to an elevator to nowhere; cyclical repetition producing optical music recalling Steve Reich or Terry Riley.

An early "walking" performance shot on super-8 in 1981.

Shot in London in the underpass the connects the IMAX theater to Waterloo station, "Waterloo" is part of a series of recent works that explore the limits of digital capture by setting up a series of formal parameters and then letting them play themselves out (almost) automatically in relation to randomizing elements. The capture rate is set at one frame per second, though sound is recorded in real time. Focus, exposure, and effective shutter speed are allowed to float and respond eccentrically to changing light levels, focal distances, and color temperatures in ways that produce a free play between figuration and abstraction. However, despite the abstract, painterly, and conceptual character of these images, the work is meant to be understood as a document responding to specific landscapes, situations, movements, trajectories, and durations.

THERE'S A BETTER WAY TO ATTRACT ATTENTION explores the limits of digital capture by setting up formal parameters and then letting them play themselves out automatically in relation to randomizing elements. The capture rate is set at one frame per second; sound is recorded in real time. Focus, exposure, and effective shutter speed float and respond eccentrically to changing light conditions in ways that produce a free play between figuration and abstraction.

Filmed in Super 8, a walk from Paul Valéry's childhood home in Sète, up through the Quartier Haut to the Cimetière Marin. Motion and frame capture is manipulated on the fly using several mathematical protocols.