© John Sanborn, Kit Fitzgerald
- Artist/s
- Kit Fitzgerald
- John Sanborn
- Title
- Interpolation
- Year
- 1979
- Category
- Video
- Format
- Analog video
- Material / Technique
- Betacam SP, color, mono, original format: U-Matic
- Dimensions / Duration
- 00:28:25
- Description
- »Interpolation« consists of ten short video films showing everyday scenes: »Entropy«, »Order«, »Watch«, »Aphasia«, »Interpolation«, »Jargon«, »Duad«, »Motive«, »Lux«, »Access«. With fast cuts and cross-fading effects, as well as the option of real-time and synchronous editing of images and sound, Kit Fitzgerald and John Sanborn present everyday routines of an average U.S. citizen — preparing breakfast, sitting in a chair, everyday life at the office — as events located between social determinism and the desire to shape one’s own life. The sonic level of many videos is striking. The editing follows an acoustic logic, a rhythmic composition emerges from everyday sounds.
Kit Fitzgerald and John Sanborn are among the representatives of experimental video art of the 1980s, who tested a wide variety of video editing techniques and explored the boundaries of music and performance. During their collaboration, which lasted from 1976 to 1982, they produced a series of works that thus oscillate between video art and experimental music videos.
Images
John Sanborn, Kit Fitzgerald, »Interpolation«, 1979, Betacam SP, color, mono, original format: U-Matic, 00:28:25, ZKM | Center for Art and Media.© John Sanborn, Kit Fitzgerald