Network Topology (2024) Margot McEwen
Network Topology (2024)
Single-channel standard definition digital video installation, DV transcoded to H.264. colour, silent. 11m
Network Topology, a means of mapping the structure of computer networks, is transposed into a film grammar through the appropriation, digitisation, and recombination of montage techniques drawn from early cinema, structuralist film, and analogue video art. The film is a superimposition of superimpositions (just as the internet is a network of networks), and a record of two transgender women attempting to find connection.
Single-channel standard definition digital video installation, DV transcoded to H.264. colour, silent. 11m
Network Topology, a means of mapping the structure of computer networks, is transposed into a film grammar through the appropriation, digitisation, and recombination of montage techniques drawn from early cinema, structuralist film, and analogue video art. The film is a superimposition of superimpositions (just as the internet is a network of networks), and a record of two transgender women attempting to find connection.
Transcoding as an art, three short works of digital video transcoding, changing the materiality of films as a means retaining their function:
Collected Praxinoscopes (Émile Reynaud, c. 1877)
Media: H.264 Webrip of HD Scans, transcoded to 216 Colour Websafe GIFs.
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L'arrivée d'un train, 3D self-remake (Lumière Brothers, 1895/c. 1935)
Media: H.264 Webrip of Red/Cyan Anaglyph Scan, transcoded to Stereoscopic M-JPEG.
Akt-Skulpturen (Oskar Messter, 1903)
Media: VP8 Webrip of SD Scan, transcoded to WebP Spritesheet.
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Media: H.264 Webrip of HD Scans, transcoded to 216 Colour Websafe GIFs.
magot.neocities.org/grid
L'arrivée d'un train, 3D self-remake (Lumière Brothers, 1895/c. 1935)
Media: H.264 Webrip of Red/Cyan Anaglyph Scan, transcoded to Stereoscopic M-JPEG.
Akt-Skulpturen (Oskar Messter, 1903)
Media: VP8 Webrip of SD Scan, transcoded to WebP Spritesheet.
magot.neocities.org/scroll
Margot likes going on the computer. She is attempting to synthesise a new film grammar that reflects the underlying structures of the internet – a language for the ways in which the internet moves. She is also exploring transcoding (the conversion of one moving image format to another) as an artform unto itself, and its relationship to transness.
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