Quantum Dialogues ≈ Talk and Video Programme
Hundreds of hours, over millions of videos, are uploaded every minute to social media platforms. The vast majority of these, and the reason for this influx, is the proliferation of user-friendly video cameras. The volume and apparent ease of user video has implicated its content as incapable of critical depth. But with the fully automated camera, the user is able to relinquish a predictive mode of production that requires prior intention and planning, heralded from celluloid film. Fully automated video is able to embrace the act of recording, to improvise and speculate the becoming of the video in the moment. And in this shift from planned procedures to improvised engagement, a more complex dialogue between user, machine and environment emerges. One that can be understood metaphorically, physically, and technologically through quantum physics. Viewing video in this way, from a non-newtonian, post-enlightenment mindset, the lack of critical consideration into the trillions of videos viewed each year are missing/overlooking novel/alternative forms of poetry/aura/creativity/sensibility in the most popular media on earth, which can be found in the works of some British experimental artists.
Jamie (he/him) is an artist, researcher, and programmer based in sunny Morecambe. He is interested in: low-cost and accessible creative practices, user cultures, quantum philosophies, improvisation and decentralisation.
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