DMA Spring Review ‘21 | Leslie Foster
Étude #4 is an exploration of identity, pain, and rage through my own performance, iteration, and instinctual editing–which adds inconsistencies and subtle chaos to the work. Post-production is an often precise art, a refining and polishing of raw material. In treating the edit as gesture and performance, as dance, I’ve begun to investigate how the remaining rawness and exposed edges enrich the temporal slippage and abstract nature of the finished work.
Étude #4 is comprised of five variations, each of which is displayed on its own 4” LCD monitor attached to a Raspberry Pi Zero*. Below is the documentation of a technical test with the five Raspberry Pis to ensure they are all communicating to each other (no audio).
*Thank you to Chandler McWilliams for figuring out how to sync the video loops and to Jennifer Steinkamp for connecting me with several incredibly helpful resources.
MQTT Player Connectivity + Sync Test
Current Exhibition + Object-Making Plans
Each variation will be placed in one of five respective reliquaries, which I’ve designed using Fusion 360. Below are images of several of the reliquary variations, of which a physical prototype will be 3D printed with Jonathan Cecil’s help.
View each variation in full:
Variation #1
Variation #3
Variation #2
Variation #4
Variation #5