Connectivist Theory
(Broken Camera winder)
Meme:
an information pattern, held in an individual's memory, which is capable
of being copied to another individual's memory.
Meme will be a 15-30 minute video celebrating
the cultural diversity of Yorkshire. Visiting the five cities of Hull,
Sheffield, York, Bradford and Leeds to express through ‘moving collages’
a travelogue of the cultural experience that I will encounter.
The tone of this ‘road movie’ will be upbeat and positive
and express the uniqueness of the cultural identity of the Yorkshire area.
As well as producing a Video the project can be filtered into New Media
i.e. an ongoing website. Stills and Digital Collages can also be used
for the printing media for publicity material.
FORM
The form of the Video takes from the philosophical school of thought
called Connectivist Theory. Basically this theory defines memory
as existing in layers simultaneously, “everything is happening all
at once” as if the winder of an old camera was broken and what you
received from the photo lab would be a ‘collective’ print
of all the photographs taken layered on top of one another. This Connectivist
approach is ideal in gathering information and therefore the form
of the video, it’s overall context, would be a decollage of information
as layers of images/spoken word/text peel away.
STYLE
My visual approach to making the Video borrows from the literary
experiments of the British painter Brion Gysin which he called the Cut-Up.
Basically a Cut-Up is a “literary sample” pasted into another
literary work, or juxtaposing alternate cuttings from newspapers to form
hybrid texts, the American writer William Burroughs utilised this aesthetic
in his Scrapbooks, which were experimental works which he later used as
ideas in his novels. These experiments freed the textual work from the
linear to the non-linear and emphasising the idea of ‘dipping’
into a piece of work anytime. This non-linear concept would be utilised
in the meme project.
Cut-Up
By William Burroughs
