AUTRMX is an experimental video edited using MAX/MSP and a normal cutting software. This project came out from my previous work called “Authority” where I filmed a policeman (actually an actor playing a policeman) in different moods while talking a nonsense text with someone. During the movie he changes his mood between very calm and indifferent to angry and nervous. This film and also the previous installation is a metaphor of Foucault’s power theory in modern societies witch has the characteristic of not be fixed but is always moving.

"...in a society such as ours...there are manifold relations of power that permeate, characterize and constitute the social body, and these relations of power cannot themselves be established, consolidated nor implemented without the production, accumulation, circulation and functioning of a discourse."

Michel Foucault

The movie develops first with him going crazy and then calm. So the MAX/MSP starts to select some frames and display these frames in a random way.

In order to give the feeling of no understanding about what the policeman says we decided to make the policeman with no nationality. It means that anyone can feel this strange sensation independent of what mother tongue he has. Then, I decided to use some kind of Dadaist language like the examples we found in the works of Kurt Scwitters and Ernst Jandl.

As AUTRMX is a video it only needs a DVD player. Also available in mini DV format.

It can be also be and interactive video installation with the max/msp running in real time. In this case should be necessary have a computer (mac G5) with monitor or projector. A special set up can be done according the available space.

Ricardo Nascimento,
Master Student, Kunstuniversität Linz, Interface Culture.
ricardo [at] popkalab.com

I would like to thanks Manuel Klein for the wonderful acting, Jona Hoier and Andreas Zingerle for helping me in the shooting section. I also would like to tanks the great artist Moby who made the soundtrack and his wonderfull iniciative http://www.mobygratis.com and many thanks to Fabiana Shizue for the great make-up.

wünschen Sie es tun. nein,
was hier? Sie wünschen es
können Sie nein, tun. was
was wünschen Sie hier? können
wünschen Sie können Sie es
nein, Sie hier? wünschen tun.

wish you to do. no.
what here? you wish it.
can you? no, do, what
what wish you do here? can
wish you can it
no, you here? wish to do.

2008

25 to 30th March - Bangkok Experimental Film Festival - BEFF 5. www.project304.org/beff5

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