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Breathe... Keep Breathing., Shaun C. Kiel
Breathe... Keep Breathing., Shaun C. Kiel
School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work
I work with short-duration seamless video loops. My work simultaneously depicts and emulates the material composition of time, specifically how action composes time and how time can compose or construct objects.
My work is self-reflexive. Self-reflexive means that a product actively considers or examines its own production. In video this means breaking either the illusion of depicted time as real time or the illusion of the depicted image as real space. Video loops are self-reflexive by function. Their periodic recurrence points out the artifact of the medium.
The periodic recurrence of video loops also changes the narrative quality of the …