What would it be like if our brains had a ‘Shuffle’ feature; If we could experience the world as a de-contextualised succession of moments and impressions? Would we find serenity in the blissful waves of meaningless stimulation, or would we become consumed by the void of nothingness between sensory pulses?
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Andrew Burgess’s meditative video interface entitled shuffle is on public view for the first time during the M.A digital arts show at Camberwell.
This work is motivated by Paradoxical enquiries into methods of capturing the ephemeral and searching for the meaning in the search for meaning.
Shuffle consists of a media database that is played in an unpredictable order through an interface designed within the Pure Data programming environment.
It has been designed to describe an unresolved journey into a landscape of de-contextualisation and unlearning.
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Shuffle is an interface of moving image and sound work, conceived as a methodical description of an arbitrary existence.
It is a meditation on disassociation and fragmentation.
The programme which runs this interface shuffles playback through a database of recorded material, enhancing it’s ephemeral quality.
With this work I want to ask the question – is consciousness regulated or de-regulated by visual stimulation?
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Tagged consciousness., database, disassociation, ephemeral, fragmentation, Meditation, Shuffle
