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PTOLEMY 1990 |
| A VIDEO
MATRIX BY STEINA |
| PTOLEMY borrows the cast of characters
from the Machine Vision series. The camera circles
inside and outside a series of reflective spheres.
The space, now condensed into small image/objects,
begins its orbit around the center, the camera.
The boundaries of the camera on an extended and
orbiting arm delineates this world of circular
movements — a dance of machine with ordinary
objects in a mechanized choreography. The sound
of motors and gears is piped through various processors
adding to the surrealistic quality of this machine
performance. |
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WOODY VASULKA |
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| D E S C R I P T I O N |
| PTOLEMY is a four video, eight audio
channel installation with a ten minute repeating
program. Each of the four video disk players provides
one video and two audio sources to 16 video monitors
and eight speakers. A video synchronizer aligns
the four channels of video for synchronous playback.
At the end of each cycle the program automatically
returns and re-synchronizes for a repeat performance. |
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