Monday, November 11, 2013

Steina and Jackie Hatfield

Both of the readings as well as watching the film Violin Power, explained the order of the history of Expanded Cinema more completely as a still evolving art. Film, then Electronic,then Digital. And yet each medium combines with each other or continues to experiment with ever changing digital means to continue to create something new. I especially liked Jackie Hatfield's explanation--" that artists were free-flowing individuals experimenting with different kinds of media,and more often than not were working with-and expanding both technologies". ( video and film ). -that's what Steina was doing while her husband was busy creating and programming the waveform--talk about mixing old and new!  As a couple they seem more "present day kind of artists"...combining art and technology--with old and new experiments--rather than more history..
The electronic part is still a bit over my head but I am interested.- Interested especially in how it relates to a new kind of music...technology's music making itself is very much like Steina's cameras "seeing" for themselves. Cool.

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