I have converted the latest train footage to video and will be using them as final pieces. Initially I had six to work with, however, one has a bus travelling through the scene which detracts from the ideas I am conveying and is generally distracting and a second piece of footage got encoded rather badly (its possible that I am straining the limits of the hardware now as I run out of computer resourses to complete the project – each video takes around 30GB of hard drive space). The remaining four all work successfully, and I am considering choosing three to present as final pieces. I do not think I will use the code anymore as it does not add much to the work – only explains that it is referencing the computer – which could easily be explained in a short statement, or with a printout of the code.
I like the silence of the work, but I am considering the effects that some music may have on the piece, I have watched the videos with a few different pieces of music playing, so far the most successful was this;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z2GLyrKs4E
Around 10 minutes in is my favourite piece for my work, the music was a soundtrack for a film called octane, a thriller which takes place on the road, so the connection to speed and travel is quite relevant.
To display the work I would present it in a large gallery space, with three projections running at once, each looped seemlessly (probably by reversing the video and then looping when it got to the start again. This would mean that the viewer got an overwhelming sense of the speed being portrayed, but could see there was never any movement, the pieces would eternily be trapped in space and time. A short statement would explain the work and the motivations behind it.
For a title I have chosen
station.ARY
There are several reasons behind this;
I had some ideas around movement, time and space, however I did not feel these would convey my ideas. The word stationary however, describes what is happening in the piece – the train is static. I did consider something else, like moving still or still moving but prefered to go down the stationary route. From there I realised that they were shot in a train station, so the word station would also be relevant. To reference the computer code used to generate the piece I decided then to change the word from stationary to station.ary – referencing the three letter file formats that we are used to on computers.