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Memor-obilia Wisconsin

Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive

1975 00:32:53 United StatesEnglishColorMono4:31/2" open reel video

Description

An over thirty-minute static long take of a grass lawn in front of a lake. A camera is set still to capture a day trip of a group of people around the lake. The causal conservation suggests they are having a picnic on a breezy day, where a wind chime occasionally rings, alongside the random blowing of a horn. The video processing focuses on the keying of two distinct areas: the lake and the surrounding grass lawn and trees. 

Although the tape is shot with early Portapak that is black and white in nature, the Image Processor generates a new layer of colorization to the footage. Through constant color manipulation, the clip features highly saturated and psychedelic colors, showcasing the colorizing ability of the image processor.

–Gordon Dic-Lun Fung

For more information, visit the Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive page

The date for this title is approximate. 

The Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive (PMMRA) is an archive of early video and media art created and collected by artist and School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) instructor Phil Morton and his students and collaborators. The collection includes nearly 800 videos, a large portion of which documents the emergence of experimental video and media art education in Chicago during the 1970s. During his time at SAIC, Morton developed an anti-copyright approach called COPY-IT-RIGHT, which advocated that media art should be shared widely and be freely available. In honor of this ethos, all PMMRA titles on Video Data Bank’s website are available to watch for free. Visit a title's artwork page to view the video in full. 

For more information and to access the full list of available titles related to PMMRA, visit the Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive Collection page

The titles listed on this page are videos collected and produced by Morton's collaborators and students, titles for which Morton may have had an ancillary role. Visit Phil Morton's artist page for a list of titles produced by Morton.