Image compression for digital video tape recording with high-speed playback capability

1991 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siu-Wai Wu ◽  
Allen Gersho
Keyword(s):  
Image Compression ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Digital Video ◽  
Tape Recording ◽  
Video Tape

Bill Viola and the Cinema of Indefinite Bodily Experience

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Digital Video ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
High Speed Camera ◽  
Bodily Experience ◽  
The Uncanny ◽  
Sense Of Time

This chapter examines ghostly gestures that we cannot consciously experience, but only perceive through digital technologies. Internationally recognized as a leading video artist, Viola’s work focuses on the intersections of new media and experiences like death, consciousness, spirituality, and emotion. Many of his recent installations manipulate our sense of time by using a special high-speed camera. Uncanny gestures (those that are embodied but unreadable) emerge as the film is transferred to digital video and slowed down. The emergence of gestures that we can recognize once visualized through digital media as our own, but we cannot recall – that is, we cannot reenact or remember – points to something uncanny about gesture and its relation to affect. Rather than offering us a new understanding of human interiority or an opportunity to make sense of the uncanny, Viola’s work leaves us only with uncertainty as a visceral affect.

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