"The moment when our artist has regressed to the point of infinity and... is both the observer and the observed" "Could you explain 'infinite regression' for us?" - Bill Bonds
"Roll the film.
I came prepared to do just that.
Now, here's a painting of a landscape. Now, the artist who painted that picture says ''Something is missing. What is it?'
'It is I myself who was part of the landscape I painted.'
So he mentally takes a step backward, or regresses, and paints a picture of the artist painting a picture ofthe landscape.
But still something is missing. That is still his real self painting the second picture.
So he regresses further, and paints a third.
A picture ofthe artist painting a picture of the artist painting a picture ofthe landscape.
And because something is still missing, he paints a fourth and a fifth until he paints a picture ofthe artist painting a picture ofthe artist painting a picture of the artist painting a picture of the artist painting a landscape." - Dr. Otto Hasselin
"So infinite regression, then, is..." - Bill Bonds
"The moment when our artist has regressed to the point of infinity and is part of the landscape he painted, and is both the observer and the observed." - Dr. Otto Hasselin
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(above is a video is documentation of a section of I <3 Presets website, an aspect of their ongoing project. The I <3 Presets website is itself a work of experimental New Media Art, Web Art, digitalPunk, Dirty New Media, glitchery && Noise. This site is also a part of the ongoing I <3 Presets project, a project that is most often articulated as a realtime audio video + noise project. I <3 Presets is a Chicago-based Noise band + an experimental Media Art project:
"As I LOVE PRESETS, Chicago-based sound and new media artists Rob Ray, Jon Satrom, and Jason Soliday do everything wrong the right way. The trio manipulates found sounds and animated GIFs on home-brewed equipment in spectacular live audio/video performances, breaking down, complicating, and glorifying instrument settings, tool presets, and art-making interfaces normally accepted as fixed and stable. From Excel spreadsheets and video games to hacked Casios and discarded drum machines, any and everything electronic is fair game. Tonight, the trio will play several new pieces and demo their latest instruments and a video game."
(Film, Video and New Media department at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago; New Media Art Histories; Art Games + Independent Gaming Cultures; Open Source, Artware + early Video Art; Computer Witchcraft + Majikal Media Art)