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dc.contributor.author |
Matthews, LM
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2804-940X
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dc.contributor.author |
Perin, GJ
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2943-4094
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dc.contributor.editor |
Preston, J |
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dc.contributor.editor |
Geczy, A |
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dc.date |
2015-06-29 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Virtually Pop PopCAANZ 6th Annual International Conference 29 June-1 July 2015 Massey University Campus, Wellington, New Zealand |
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dc.identifier.isbn |
978-0-646-93725-0 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/10453/44012
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dc.description.abstract |
Video Installation Work exhibited at POPCAANZ 2015. Virtually POP is a curated (peer-reviewed) exhibition aligned with the 2015 POPCAANZ Conference ISBN 978-0-646-93725-0 |
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dc.format |
Video |
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dc.publisher |
University of New Zealand, College of Creative Arts, Massey University |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
Virtually Pop PopCAANZ 6th Annual International Conference 29 June-1 July 2015 Massey University Campus, Wellington, New Zealand |
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dc.title |
New York Cuts |
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dc.type |
Exhibition |
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utslib.location |
College of Creative Arts, Massey University |
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pubs.embargo.period |
Not known |
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pubs.organisational-group |
/University of Technology Sydney |
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pubs.organisational-group |
/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building |
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pubs.organisational-group |
/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building/School of Architecture |
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utslib.copyright.status |
open_access |
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pubs.consider-herdc |
true |
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pubs.finish-date |
2015-07-01 |
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pubs.place-of-publication |
College of Creative Arts, Massey University |
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pubs.start-date |
2015-06-29 |
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pubs.rights-statement |
The contemporary city is increasingly represented through an assemblage of digitally recorded scenes captured by webcams distributed across urban space. Collectively and individually, the visual content of these recordings is used to present a globally competitive image whose narrative is constructed as an ideal civic ‘view’. The pixel is the base operational unit behind the digital webcam. The data-based nature of the pixel attributes numerical properties relating to the colour, brightness and shape of the objects within the field of view. The technologies behind the capture and re-presentation of these discrete pixel groupings of the webcam platform provide a unique set of protocols by which the general user can easily download and re-arrange image content. The capacity to alter this content allows one to reorganise the image to reveal urban conditions and form in a way that can strategically dismantle any imposed utopian view of this space. Just as significantly, the ‘reverse engineering’ of the various reconfigurations of the numerical attributes of this content means that any return to the original inevitably comes with a degree of data degradation. The transformative process of data realignment and reconfiguring webcam image content can profoundly shift image content to unveil latent qualitative properties of urban space. The proposal aims to demonstrate how the realignment and reconfiguring process is a mode of filmic intervention in which digital representation enables the city to be foregrounded as qualitative space. The video uses open-source medical imaging software to reconfigure webcam footage captured in Times Square New York. Drawing upon this software’s capacity to process time-based video footage as a three-dimensional volume of qualitative data, the video reassembles a series of sequential views of this city as reconfigured slices of visual data. Commencing with a slice factor of a single pixel, an iterative process of pixel data realignment of this image volume is undertaken with progressively wider cuts or pixel increments. The deliberate loss of visual data transforms the resulting footage from a traditional, recognisable formal arrangement to one that reveals the quintessential qualitative properties of this space. |
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