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arte digital | digital art, audiovisual, Net art & Mobile art


Date Added

julho 10, 2006


Project brief & details

Fast/Slow_Scapes is a series of videos always captured inside a moving vehicle [cars, taxis, boats, trains, and buses] and with different mobile phone models, these videos are based on unique viewpoints regarding the “cyborg eye” of mobile cameras. Each place was recorded from inside the mean of transportation that characterizes its territory. Seen today, they do not narrate only the landscapes they portrayed, they also narrate the history of the audiovisual in the age of technological nomadism.

The appearance of cell phones with a camera began to catch my attention in its first days. I assumed that the cell phone tended more and more to become not only a robust urban remote control but also a third eye in the palm. All my videos from the series Fast/Slow_Scapes (2006) explored this phenomenon. Always captured inside a moving vehicle [cars, taxis, boats, trains, and buses] and with different mobile phone models, these videos are based on unique viewpoints regarding the “cyborg eye” of mobile cameras.

In this visual diary recorded on video, launched at Galeria Vermelho, in São Paulo, the images look like they are stuck in walls as if they were static paintings in movement. I recorded each place from inside the mean of transportation that characterizes its territory. São Paulo by car, Berlin by train, Greece by boat, etc.

The image glitches, which are now one decade old, resulted from the incompatibility of speed between the capturing device [mobile phones that recorded videos in 16 frames per second] and the editing device [computers that read files with 29.7 frames per second]. Seen today, they do not narrate only the landscapes they portrayed; they also narrate the history of the audiovisual in the age of technological nomadism.

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