Robot Pavlov Sputnik
Robot Pavlov Sputnik
- Artist: Oliver Hockenhull
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- Year: 2014
- Duration: 07:23
- Country: Canada
This is a confluence of intent and a revisiting of an iconic animation
by Norman McLaren -- "Synchromy" 1971.McLaren's "Synchomy" is an early form of machine art, a formal modernist gesture revealing & reveling in the immediate transparency of code and signal, a chimerical fantasy of speculative references--prophetic futurism reading itself, speaking itself. Robot Pavlov Sputnik reinterprets and composits the morphic quality of code, its slippage and variability, creating a highly saturated abstracted wave ocean horizon/sunrise pulsed imagistcally by the musical track.Composited clips:
A) "Devils Girls From Mars"(1954),
B) Pudovkin's "Mechanicsof the Brain"(1926),
a study of Pavlov's classical conditioning experiments
C) Animation Sputnik launch (1957)- Accession #: 5374
- Distribution Status: In Distribution