Pattern Recognition

Flipping through a series of record covers at breakneck speed forces the eye to sample the images it receives. Today in public space mobile technologies have moved from the transistor radio to the mobile phone. Here images no longer behave according to the laws of perspective. This is what Marshall McLuhan refers to as an Acoustic Space where images with speed perform according to the laws of pattern recognition. This film recycles sound from an 1960s Melbourne Radio Show: Newsbeat which chronicled car accidents to access the kind of immersion and immediacy now delivered by the mobile phone.

Year

2019

Director

Dirk de Bruyn

Duration

4 min

Country

Australia

Language

English