10:24 of nothing

During my studies of Scenography the lecturer Andreas Voigt confronted each of us in a seminar called "Images, Signs & Tales" with a different list of 24 words out of a book of Giordano Bruno and the advice to develop a work of art out of your list.

1) I first analyzed its layout:


3  3  3
3      3
3  3  3

2) Then divivde those into three layers,
and played with the sizes of each layer:

1  1  1         1  1  1          1  1  1
1      1        1      1        1     1
1  1  1        1  1  1      1  1  1

1  1  1        1  1  1          1  1  1
1      1        1      1          1      1  
1  1  1        1  1  1              1   1   1

1  1  1        1  1  1         1  1  1 
1      1        1      1          1      1
1  1  1        1  1  1               1  1  1

3) Beside I researched about the black square by Malewitsch and early video work by f.ex. Hans Richter. Starting to experiment with sound giving every field a note:

c  d  e       c  d  e       c  d  e
f       g       f      g       f      g
a  h  c'      a  h  c'      a  h  c'

c  d  e       c   d  e      c  d  e
f       g       f      g       f      g
a  h  c'      a  h  c'      a  h  c'

c  d  e       c   d  e      c  d  e
f       g       f      g       f      g
a  h  c'      a  h  c'      a  h  c'


4) and started to develop some chords out of this system.

Finally I ended up with a sound, video work, which is a reminiscence to Kasimir Malevichs "Black Square" painting, bringing it to movement in the style of early 1920s video art. The video was filmed with my first smartphone: Nokia 6210. The light falling into the square creates a constant visual movement by partly overlapping the black creating a visual gradience and those abstract stills.