Autoportrait (perturbations I)
- Date of creation : 1972
- Country : Switzerland
- Duration : 00:13:00
- Artist - Author : Jean Otth
Description
September 1972. Pully VD, Switzerland.
"The experiment was carried out as follows: An electronic camera offered me my own image live on a monitor placed in front of me (next to the camera). An engineer intervened on this image by creating electronic disturbances I then chose which of these disturbances I was going to preserve by means of the magneticoscopic recording. No modification of the image other than electronic took place in this experiment. (Optical devices of the lens, zooms, lighting etc. ..). The essay aims to show the aesthetic and expressive possibilities of electronic vocabulary." (Source, artist's website)
Additional Informations
Technical collaboration : Serge Marendaz
Publications and Periodicals which reference the work
François Bovier, Film Implosion ! Experimental Cinema in Switzerland, cat. exp. Fribourg, Fri-Art, Kunsthalle Fribourg, Berlin, Revolver Publishing, 2017.
Jean Otth. Vidéo 1970-1980, cat. exp. Genève, Centre d’art contemporain, 1980.