Artworks
Or, autrement [Or, otherwise]
video
![Or, autrement [Ou, então]](https://cms.macam.pt/storage/uploads/thumbs/inarte-work-3320_w840.jpg)
Date
2006
Technique
Animation, loop, colour, no sound, 8'20'', projected on two white painted wooden boards
The video - Or, Autrement
, developed by Brazilian duo Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain, shows a curious and complex animation made using image editing software. This piece, made in 2006, is intended as a study of the construction of the digital image, highlighting the computer's commands for processing and memorising visual information.
On the right side we are presented with the painting - Flowers in a glass vase
by Jan Davidsz de Heem, an example of a Flemish Baroque still life, dating from around 1660, which depicts a group of flowers on a black background The duo of artists, who live and work in Paris, created a technological tool that selects the pixels of a given colour, transferring them to a new image that gradually takes shape on the left side of the video. In this passage part of the information about the specific position of the pixels is lost, but the relative distance of the points with the same colour is maintained, making evident the deconstruction technique of the digital image, in a slow and continuous transformation. From this process emerges a new image that possesses the whole information of the original, but deformed by the reorganisation of its repositioning. The figurative still life image is thus transformed into an abstract interpretation, a "subjective" vision of the technological tool.
With an almost mesmerising character, this work leads us to a reflection on the constituent elements behind the digitised images, which now fill our everyday lives. We are reminded that however realistic and believable they may be, such images are made up of tiny elements, subject to processing and even manipulation flaws. It is curious to note that the title itself reflects this reorganization process: "Ou, Autrement" ("Or, on the other hand" in English), being an anagram of "Nature morte" ("still life" in English).
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, developed by Brazilian duo Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain, shows a curious and complex animation made using image editing software. This piece, made in 2006, is intended as a study of the construction of the digital image, highlighting the computer's commands for processing and memorising visual information.
On the right side we are presented with the painting - Flowers in a glass vase
by Jan Davidsz de Heem, an example of a Flemish Baroque still life, dating from around 1660, which depicts a group of flowers on a black background The duo of artists, who live and work in Paris, created a technological tool that selects the pixels of a given colour, transferring them to a new image that gradually takes shape on the left side of the video. In this passage part of the information about the specific position of the pixels is lost, but the relative distance of the points with the same colour is maintained, making evident the deconstruction technique of the digital image, in a slow and continuous transformation. From this process emerges a new image that possesses the whole information of the original, but deformed by the reorganisation of its repositioning. The figurative still life image is thus transformed into an abstract interpretation, a "subjective" vision of the technological tool.
With an almost mesmerising character, this work leads us to a reflection on the constituent elements behind the digitised images, which now fill our everyday lives. We are reminded that however realistic and believable they may be, such images are made up of tiny elements, subject to processing and even manipulation flaws. It is curious to note that the title itself reflects this reorganization process: "Ou, Autrement" ("Or, on the other hand" in English), being an anagram of "Nature morte" ("still life" in English).
DC