Crinkle

Featuring overlaying monologues, Phil Morton brings up a wide range of philosophical and mundane topics: self-exploration, evolution, personal values, frustration, exhaustion, spirituality, video making, etc. He discusses the capability of video as a tool for expansion of perception.

Video and media advancement is like a crinkle that provides both opportunities and challenges. On one hand, video arts can expand consciousness, but also open up a rabbit hole of self-reflection and perhaps self-criticism. The video is an ongoing juxtaposition of live-feed portrait video and constant influx of feedback. At times, the feedback appears like burning flame and portal toward the viewer, as if lighting up an urge to self-examination. The audiovisual elements are never clearly perceivable due to overlapping, as if uncovering a Jungian confrontation to the self-unconscious.

This crinkled situation of mental battle fostered by videos is supplemented by a brief sample of Nam June Paik’s interview in the middle, seemingly to echo with Paik’s sentiment: “I use technology in order to hate it properly,” which remains relevant to contemporary life.

–Gordon Dic-Lun Fung

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

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