interlaced video & the glitch

As a consequence of my slowing developing video skills a number of my works to date have exhibited glitches and/or interlaced footage. I’m hesitant to pass this one off as a ‘charged moment’, of revealing its own construction, as it is a (common) production fluke, rather than a physical manipulation, such as knocking the camera, but still it is interesting in consideration of the project. The glitchs have come as accidents, mostly through using the schools tape decks that have run hundreds of various tapes through them, unlike the work of Daniel Crooks who has devised a way to manipulate video to mimic the glitch. Yet it is interesting to consider they display a past and previous moment simultaneously. Interlacing or the combing effect viewed when the two fields that normally combine to create one frame do not meet up is perhaps a too literal and instantaneous translation of a temporal paradox I’ve been trying to create, but still worth consideration.

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