Darko Fritz
End of Message
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Original format video
Year 1995-2000
Artist(s) Darko Fritz
Running time 193 min
Films
END OF THE MESSAGE - TOTAL ARCHIVES (1995-2000) 14'
END OF THE MESSAGE [ARCHIVES LIVE!] (1995-2000) 3 x 60'
Description
Video surveillance raises many questions: how are people's movements perceived by those who observe? How does their behavior change when they feel observed? What type of archive is created from these recordings? This DVD, the sum of Darko Fritz's five-year project "End of the Message", contains videos that traverse these open questions using the all-encompassing ductility of the 360-degree convex lens employed in his installations. The synthesis of information, as in accelerated passages, extrapolated "portrait" fragments, or even the editing done by the observers themselves, subverts the usual relationship of mutual defense between observer and observed, and formalizes new languages for interpreting surveillance images. Published under a Creative Commons license, this "End of the Message" opens new paths for interpreting the daily relationship with the semi-automatic eye and its (distorted and spectacular) vision of reality.
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