Seen From A Distance
My first video works were shot between 1986 and 1988 on Betamax. In 2021, almost 35 years later, the tape was digtized by a company. I was shocked about the bad image quality. This inspired me to think about the influence of the technical developments at that time in the 1980s on the production and content of my video works.
This resulted in a two-channel video installation. The digitised compilation tape (17:54 min) is shown on an old CRT monitor, completely unedited and unembellished. The sound comes directly from the monitor's built-in speakers.
On a small digital display with connected headphones, which is placed on the tube monitor together with the old Betamax tape, the text I have recorded in German can be heard (6:55 min). Synchronously, the English translation appears on the screen as a text overlay. The off-text, however, does not run synchronously with the video compilation tape, but parallel as a loop, so that constantly new combinations of text and image are created.