Micro Floral Transmissions to ALTair

"In late December 2020 I began making videos of bouquets of Anemones using a microscope lens. The very limited focal length of the lens requires that the lens touch the subject to obtain focus. This imaging process developed into an odd intimacy between subject, apparatus and my body as I moved the handheld camera through the bouquets. The audio is made up of processed sync sound, samples from the Forbidden Planet soundtrack and computer voiced words from the Algorithms for Indeterminacy series. This project ended on March 7th, 2021 and is dedicated to the memory of my friend and neighbor Barbara Ess. The flowers used in this project were grown in the Hudson Valley on the ancestral homeland of the Munsee and Muhheaconneok (Mohican) peoples.

Algorithms for Indeterminacy is a generative text project. Imagining a relation between two, three or four specific words then submitting those words to an algorithm that generates a combined word list of their synonyms and/or antonyms."

–Les LeVeque

Micro Floral Transmissions to ALTair is a collection of ten short video pieces; each title is also available individually. Please email VDB with inquiries about individual pieces. 

First Transmission
Algorithm for Indeterminacy text life, life (486-word list), 3:03

Second Transmission
Algorithm for Indeterminacy text sick, rich (374-word list), 3:05

Third Transmission
Algorithm for Indeterminacy text nature, nothing, information (374-word list), 4:15

Fourth Transmission
Algorithm for Indeterminacy text plantation, penal, democracy (406-word list), 3:29

Fifth Transmission
Algorithm for Indeterminacy text uncovering, noplace (1,183-word list), 3:44

Sixth Transmission
Algorithm for Indeterminacy text property, experience, physical (343-word list), 3:53

Seventh Transmission
Algorithm for Indeterminacy text subjected, dominated, desire (892-word list), 4:27

Eighth Transmission
Algorithm for Indeterminacy text catastrophe, flesh, transport (676-word list), 3:41

Ninth Transmission
Algorithm for Indeterminacy text undo, consume, affliction, journey (678- word list), 3:27

Tenth Transmission
Algorithm for Indeterminacy text grief, search, commune, difference (763- word list), 3:29