A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash
This movie is a major inspiration for my recent body of work. The impending oil crash is in many ways analogous with the coal crash in south east Ohio, specifically Shawnee.
Downloadable resources from the film's Website
Paul Nutter on New Straitsville Ohio
Local resident, writer and historian Paul Nutter discusses the history of New Straitsville.
Paul Nutter on New Straitsville Ohio from Jeff Lovett on Vimeo.
A Plastic River
Video of the log jam in the Hocking River that is collecting all the garbage that normally floats down the 20 something miles to the Ohio not quite 800 miles later it merges into the Mississippi River only 950 miles from it's new home in the Gulf of Mexico and the greater Ocean System.
Plastic River from Jeff Lovett on Vimeo.
APOV Dance Test
The APOV harness mounts four cameras on the wearer. One on each arm and leg pointed at the same hand or foot. The video here is what the wearer sees. (This video is broken up into several short segments separated by five seconds of black.) This is a study for a dance piece in which one or more dancers will wear the APOV Harness and interact with space to compose visually through the harness. This visual composition will be wirelessly transmitted to a projector which will project on the opposite side of the performance space. The audience will stand in the center of the projection and the performance able to see both but not at the same time.
APOV Video
This is the documentation of the first "public" testing of the APOV (adjustable point of view) harness. The wearer is John Sanders and the crowd is the New Media Graduate class at Ohio University with professor David Colagiovanni The left portion of the video is all that John was able to see during the experience. The image on the right is a video I recorded during John's experience. The two were synced up and composited in Final Cut Pro.
Ice and River Obesession
Below are two more videos catering to my obsession with the frozen river behind my house.
Two Images for the resloution.
Transmission
Transmission from Jeff Lovett on Vimeo.
Transmission is a peice that explores the movement of a view point from a general location to a specific one. It is this shift that is interesting to me. In the same way that my tilt-shift images cause a shift in the precieved scale of a place, Transmission causes a shift in possibilities of location.
There is also a openness for narritive that I find intriuging. It is not my normal tendency to work with a narritive, but after a discussion with Mateo Galvano the possibility for a narritive has entered my thinking about this work. For me it was a much more formal experiment of location, preception and contrasting formal elements. For Mateo there was a narritive almost spiritual in quality attached. I'm not exactly sure how to convey this narritive without literally describing it, which I'm not ready to do yet, but it was a very interesting experience for me to have that new material embedded in my work.
The Wikipedia article below is my inspiration for the title:
Data transmission, the conveyance of information from one space to another
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