Description:
Autocidal After Image is a short, six-minute digital video animation that explores video and video infrastructures in the context of online networks, systems and databases. In the work, multiple found online videos compose a 3D space – rendering each image as virtual objects to examined. Exploring John Berger’s idea of flattened media forms, the work plays with ideas of online video framing, fragmentation, and casual directionless surfing. Exploring the role of the artist as a filter, Rosati employs the metadata generated through users, networks and infrastructures to frame and organize information that privileges the often-privatized usage of online services. The aim is to reveal and question online video-based infrastructure, including that of the user behind the screen, video cameras, video aggregation, compression, network commodification, video databases, and content consumption.
