“Force Fields” by Clinton Watkins, Grant Stevens

Title:

Force Fields

Artist(s) and People Involved:

Filmmaker, Video Artist, or Animator(s):



• Clinton Watkins -
  • Auckland University of Technology
• Grant Stevens

Symposium:

• ISEA2024: 29th International Symposium on Electronic Art

Venue(s):

• The Loft Theatre, QUT Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane, Australia

Artist Statement:

Force Fields is a twenty-minute video and sound composition that has been edited to 5 minutes for ISEA, using custom developed video manipulation hardware. The unique device developed in 2008 called the AV5-Error enables sound to be forced into an active video signal. Sound then becomes visible through this process. The structure of Force Fields consists of eleven short compositions recorded live in a studio context. Each composition consists of short arrangements of a various pure tone frequencies, metronomic pulse wave clicks, white noise and microphone feedback being forced into monochromes of broadcast test tone colour bands.