2 minutes long. This movie was produced by Michael Betancourt using digital composting techniques as a simulation of both the video processing effects possible with Dave Jones' Colorizer and an optical printer. The "raw" material used in its creation are color bars, processed recursively and distorted to create forms that resemble the disks of Newton employed in the paintings of the Synchromists, whose work was an influence on Mary Ellen Bute (a key reference point for my work). My work as a whole is engaged with issues of abstraction, motion and visual-temporal structuring. The finished work, on view here, is a composite of the same video strand from different levels of recursion and processing, layered with the base disk of Newton at different scales within in the frame. It is the most recent elaboration of my exploration of how time, motion and visual space can be created and displaced within the frame.
