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Film Making Robot - Douglas Bagnall and Invisible Cities - Alex Montieth
Alex Montieth / Invisible Cities
Gallery 1
Opening 5.30-7.30 pm Thursday 21 July 2005
exhibition continues until 19 August
visually navigate cities (both real and imagined).
from our everyday existence. But what is revealed when we are asked
train our sights closer to home? How do we see and image the city and
suburban streets where we live and work? Douglas Bagnall has made a
Film-making Robot which charts the repeated, everyday routes of inner
city buses. The 'body' of Douglas Bagnall's film-making robot sits in
the gallery. The 'eyes' of the robot are cameras attached to the front
of Stagecoach buses who, when passing near wireless internet
communication nodes in the central city upload video footage taken
around the city. These are relayed to the 'body' and from there the
robot selects and edits excerpts according to specific programmed
visual criteria. In the gallery you can see both the edited films and
the process of the robot 'dreaming'; processing the video inputs,
regarding them and reaching decisions on their merit. At the beginning
of the project the footage will be predominantly of Wellington, with
more and more Auckland footage being added.
and other projects go to http://halo.gen.nz. Film-making Robot was
first seen as part of Telecom Prospect 2004 / New Art New Zealand and
was presented by City Gallery Wellington in partnership with the New
Zealand Film Archive. The Auckland presentation of Film-making Robot is
supported by Stagecoach New Zealand and Reach Wireless.
Alex Monteith's Invisible Cities emerges from a conflation of two
'found' structural sources; Italo Cavino's book 'Invisible Cities' and
the Alta Vista internet search engine. Two projections in the space
make visible a perpetual search for images - one using the nouns in
Calvino's text , the other a list of objects and materials present in|
the gallery space. Calvino's 'Invisible Cities' is an extraordinary
book written in the early 1970s where Marco Polo recounts tales of his
travels to fifty-five cities to an ageing world-weary Kublai Khan. The
accounts are evocative and fantastic and the reader is left to wonder
whether the cities actually represent different aspects of a single
city, different internal experiences of place, or something else
entirely.
as an on-line project at Window. The searching software for Alex
Montieth's work was authored by Sean Kerr. For more information please
go to
http://www.physicsroom.org.nz/space/2004/monteith/ or
http://www.window.auckland.ac.nz/archive/0410Invisible/default.php.
Alex Monteith is an experimental film-maker based in Auckland. Her
first feature length film Chapter and Verse has just premiered at
Telecom New Zealand Film Festivals in Auckland and Wellington.