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[15. april 2003]
Net art
Screendump: The interface for Stop Motion Studies
- Series 7
David Crawford
Stop Motion Studies
www.lightofspeed.com
The American artist David Crawford calls
his project Stop Motion Studies. The project is a collection
of ultra-short studies predominantly from the subways of Boston,
New York, London, Paris and Gothenburg. Crawford's impressive
gathering of material results in a series of intimate studies
on the humorous, grotesque and poetic aspects of seemingly simple
urban social situations.
Stop Motion Studies is based on a refreshingly
simple technique that brings forth an investigation of the intersections
of media types. One meaning of the title implies the examination
of the point where sequences of separate still photographs become
coherent motion video. How much information do we need to construct
a narrative? And, what is the relationship between the photographic
narrative and the video narrative anyway?
In Crawford's recent remix of the project - Stop
Motion Studies Series 7 - for the Whitney Artport (Whitney
Museum's portal for net.art) the user is invited to assemble a
split screen montage from the previous material. You can choose
the presentation of the material by browsing the archive. David
Crawford is an artist, a designer and a teacher. He is currently
teaching art and design at Art and Technology at the IT-university
of Gothenburg. Text and screendumps: Thomas Petersen.
Email David Crawford at: crawford@lightofspeed.com
You will need Flash
6 to view the project.
 
Screendumps: BOS.10.Man.Reads and LON.01.Exterior.Clouds
 
Screendumps: LON.06.Man.Upset and LON.13.Man.Writes
 
Screendumps: BOS.01.Couple.Light
and LON.18.Men.Watch
More:
A collection of David Crawfords work: http://www.turbulence.org/studios/crawford/
Whitney Artport: http://artport.whitney.org/
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