Micro Floral Transmissions to ALTair
In late December 2020 I began making videos of bouquets of Anemones using a microscope lens. The very limited focal length of the lens requires that the lens touch the subject to obtain focus. This imaging process developed into an odd intimacy between subject, apparatus and my body as I moved the handheld camera through the bouquets. The audio is made up of processed sync sound, samples from the Forbidden Planet soundtrack and computer voiced words from the Algorithms for Indeterminacy series. This project ended on March 7th, 2021 and is dedicated to the memory of my friend and neighbor B. The flowers used in this project were grown in the Hudson Valley on the ancestral homeland of the Munsee and Muhheaconneok (Mohican) peoples.
Algorithms for Indeterminacy is a generative text project. Imagining a relation between two, three or four specific words then submitting those words to an algorithm that generates a combined word list of their synonyms and/or antonyms.
First Transmission
Algorithms for Indeterminacy text life, life (486-word list)
Color, stereo
2021
Second Transmission
Algorithms for Indeterminacy text sick, rich (374-word list)
Color, stereo
2021
Third Transmission
Algorithms for Indeterminacy text nature, nothing, information (374-word list)
Color, stereo
2021
Fourth Transmission
Algorithms for Indeterminacy text plantation, penal, democracy (406-word list)
Color, stereo
2021
Fifth Transmission
Algorithms for Indeterminacy text uncovering, noplace (1,183-word list)
Color, stereo
2021
Sixth Transmission
Algorithms for Indeterminacy text property, experience, physical (343-word list)
Color, stereo
2021
Seventh Transmission
Algorithms for Indeterminacy text subjected, dominated, desire (892-word list)
Color, stereo
2021
Eighth Transmission
Algorithms for Indeterminacy text catastrophe, flesh, transport (676-word list)
Color, stereo
2021
Ninth Transmission
Algorithms for Indeterminacy text undo, consume, affliction, journey (678-word list)
Color, stereo
2021
Tenth Transmission
Algorithms for Indeterminacy text grief, search, commune, difference (763-word list)
Color, stereo
2021