Uršula Berlot
No. 1499
"Introspection"
Artist: Uršula Berlot
Title: Introspection
Subtitle: Kaleidoscopic Gaze, Spiral Floating, Butterfly
Duration: 01:52
Year: 2010
Genre: Installation Art / Experimental video
Production: Uršula Berlot

 
SYNOPSIS


Video installation Introspection composed of three video installations/projections and sound.


The installations Kaleidoscopic Gaze and Spiral Floating are based on digitally- processed radiological images of my brain activity while contemplating Duchamp’s Anemic Cinema, which was conceived as an optic dispositive inducing a four-dimensional spatial-temporal perceptive experience in the viewer (by alternating the concave and convex effects of spiral swirling). The kaleidoscopic pattern of the video aims to similarly expand the viewer’s perception and consciousness; the repetitive, hypnotic pattern of light projected onto the image reflected by a mirror produces a layering of fractally-fragmented reflections, that is, a virtual multi-dimensional space in motion. (Source: Uršula Berlot)
Kaleidoscopic Gaze: video projection onto an image on a mirror (video loop 6′), variable dimensions
two mirrors (90 x 180 cm; 90 x 110 cm), foil covering
projection and reflected light, sound: Scanner – Robin Rimbaud
Spiral Floating: video projection onto a semitransparent screen (video loop 6′), variable dimensions,
two Plexiglass screens (110 x 130 cm), foil covering, projection and reflected light
sound: Scanner – Robin Rimbaud


The video installation Butterfly uses radiological images of the author’s brain responding to different colors. The image of a butterfly changing colors is formed by a light reflection of a video that is being projected onto a horizontal image on a mirror. It alludes to the concept of the “butterfly effect”, which in chaos theory posits that slight, even infinitesimally small variations in the initial conditions of a dynamic system may produce extreme and unpredictable results in other space and time coordinates: that a butterfly flapping its wings could set off a hurricane on the other side of the planet. The shape on the mirror is a graphically processed image of my brain; the butterfly reflection is a metaphor for the power of our “invisible” thoughts, our emotions, our so-called mental worlds, conscious or unconscious, that keep changing the physical reality surrounding us. Butterfly deals with the interconnectedness of the visible and the invisible and questions the causal relations between the perceptible and the intelligible.
video projection onto an image on a mirror (video loop, 3′)
mirror (110 x 110 cm), foil covering, projection and reflected light
variable dimensions
sound composition: Scanner – Robin Rimbaud
(Source: Uršula Berlot)


 



 
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