In the Loop: Cyclical Video Art
Third Floor Lobby
Ongoing
The roots of looping video actually go back to early technologies like the Zoetrope, a simple a circular animation device invented in the nineteenth century. The novelty of the looping picture was one of the first media experiences ever seen.
DeCordova will present a series of new works in this genre, exhibiting each one for approximately one month. Triptych (2001), a 10-minute loop by Robert Arnold, was taped out of the window of Arnold's studio in Poznan Poland over a twenty-four hour period during a teaching residency there. Arnold then applied sophisticated computer techniques to divide the single image into a triptych in which time is relative for each of the three sections. At different intervals this street scene goes from day to night and back. Arnold has turned the painting tradition of using three panels into a fun house mirror image of the world.
In the Loop video works are organized by George Fifield, Curator of New Media.
