23 September -24 October 2015
reception 6-8pm 23 Sept
Video
captures single moments in time at a rate of around 0.000000016091194
seconds, assigning each with a single colour pixel, amalgamated into
video stills. These stills, a consolidation of 2,073,600 spatially and
temporally defined moments, then play in a sequence of 30fps (29.97
frames per second in the NTSC system). To put this into context, if each
of these moments in time corresponded to film, which runs at 24fps, one
second of recorded time in video would last 29.97 days. What we are
actually seeing is millions of moments, recorded and presented at a
rapidity far beyond our perceptual limits, creating the illusion of
images moving in continuous time.
Where
the pixels of a digital image are synonymous to the rods and cones of
the eye, video and optical perception read reality by breaking it down
through a sensory systems of smaller parts. Through the rigid form of
videos progressive-scan new images can arise, and although the eyes
process is less implicit, it too can be manipulated. The works in the
show discuss the relationship between digital and optical imaging by
distorting their limitations, producing new images drawn through the
reception of light.
Jamie
Jenkinson is a London based video artist specialising in consumer video
imaging. He studied Video Art Production at UCA, Maidstone (founded by
David Hall), Visual Communication at RCA, London, and is currently a PhD
candidate at LICA, Lancaster, funded by the AHRC. His work has been
exhibited internationally including Tate Britain, MoMA, Hermitage Museum
and National Portrait Gallery. He is currently artist in residence at
the V&A, and runs the online gallery XVIIX.
The work can be viewed at the reception (all welcome) or during opening times 1 – 6pm Thursday – Saturday, at 2 – 4 Highbury Station Road, Highbury Islington N1 1SB, London or by appointment via email. C4RD is a Registered UK Charity 1123530, and would particularly like to acknowledge the support for this exhibition of the Dovehouse Trust.