Re: [-empyre-] interactive video, a few works for Easter

[Barbara Lattanzi <threads@wildernesspuppets.net>]

Hi Nicholas.

the work is fantastic and inspiring, especially Linz and the Etudes.

I also liked Vadim Bernard's work very much and thanks for adding that to 
the list.

Vadim's work offers a counterpoint to yours in the engagement with the 
urban environment.

Your work "Linz" draws me into a subjective space through triggers of 
nostalgia that I watch myself producing through my own tactile 
interaction.  It is very compelling to me because of all of the many ways 
that you construct the work, mentioned by Alan and others ...there is no 
need to list all the inventive choices you make.  The outcome for myself as 
viewer is how I feel myself reaching (as if cursor movements and 
mouseclicks were sutures across time).  I stretch and reach nostalgically 
to bring "Linz" into focus... out of the past and into my present right 
here, right now.

Vadim, in both the treatment and the subject produces an externalized, 
tactile and mobile psychological space that is more resonant of urban 
rhythms and fragmentations.  There is no nostalgia.  Just an anxious 
ringing disintegration that snaps back with a magic mechanical logic of 
reintegration at each point in the sequence.  This is tightrope walking in 
the void.

Barbara