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From Drift to Derive
A meditation on the creation of D3, A Public Authoring Kiosk, that enabled the creation of unique video assemblages representing a personal Derive through Melbourne's CBD. From Drift to Derive is a collage based documentary. Commissioned by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image and exhibited from June to November 2003.
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|---|---|
| Produced by | Andrew Garton |
| Directed by | Andrew Garton with Art Direction by Andrew Thomas |
| Contact | write the producer |
| Home page | more info |
| Produced | 2003/06/03 |
| Production Company | Toy Satellite |
| Duration | 21 minutes 10 seconds |
Full description
From Drift to Derive is based on a canon for 4 x 5 minute looped videos, 8 screens and generative soundscape: a collage based narrative unravelling the lexicon of the D3 prototype - from conceptual design towards Guy Derbord's Theory of the Dérive.
A canon is a term used in music to describe a "composition or passage in which a melody is imitated by one or more voices at fixed intervals of pitch and time". In this instance, it is video that is composed in the form of a canon. In simple terms, each of the 8 screens display the video works at two minute intervals from behind the each other.
The idea is to create a sense of "drift" within the cluster 8 screens that resonates with the soundscape, a generative composition that regenerates itself for the duration of the installation.
Each of the four videos are replicated over 8 screens. Each piece is based on a component of the D3 project. From Drift to Dérive is a snapshot of the history of the project, from its conception to delivery of the prototype. It follows its dreams and aspirations, mapping documents, flow-charts, sketches, preliminary designs, experiments and production stills.
From Drift to Derive is based on four scenes and a generative score that was created by Andrew Garton with original sound sources composed by both Ollie Olsen and himself.
1. DRIFT
Origins of the project... attempts to define it, media platform, CMS, Digital Diaries, sample works, sussing out aspect ratios, production standards, research, reports, recommendations, presentations, the swing from Digital Sisters to D3 - from where the situationist thread begins.
2. CONSTRUCT
From sketches to the present. Cartographic imagery... Pulling the project together, from interface designs, CMS, production stills, drawings, flow-charts. Screen shots of sound applications, Ollie Olsen and Andrew Garton in their respective studios.
3. CAPTURE
Asset gathering. The D3 Dérive Kit. GPS maps, note book and production stills.
4. DÉRIVE
Philosophy, stills, video assets. References to “Theory of Dérive”, the Department of Ongoing Digital Situations, maps charting commercial routes through Melbourne's CBD.
