Rosa Binaria encircles in the media of transformation within the relationship between the significant and the meaning, between object and representation; to the extent of simulation and develops into a like spiral-shaped parabola.

    Still Video Rosa Binaria

(0'28")

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Several products originate from this project, one of them being the video "Rosa Binaria". A large part of this video was created through the digitalisation of existing objects and pictures that were worked over with the use of a 3D-animation-programme. These objects of different visual languages were subjected to numerous processes of transformation.

The first images of the video are simple recordings of the objects in their natural surroundings; the computer-animation slowly develops from this. The first stage of alienation consists of cultivated roses. They then transform themselves into objects that still have the shape of the original but are made of different materials (plastic, paper, textile).These transform themselves into photographs (direct impression through the light of reality) that then change into handpainted pictures. Even the colour disappeares, only leaves traces (lines) behind: scetches, symbols that change shape to become writing: the word "rose" in different languages of the world. The rose that only exists in the computer, the simulated rose appears after a journey through the maze of media.

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Technical Description:
Master Betacam SP, Color, Stereo, ca. 13'
Sound: Alba D'Urbano
Computeranimation: Alba D'Urbano and Nicolas Reichelt
Postproduction at the INM
© 1995-99 Alba D'Urbano