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ABOUT NOTHING
 
Short Films about Nothing is the sequel to an older work called Short Films about Flying. It's a networked installation where an open edition of unique movies are automatically generated in the gallery in real-time from existing live data found on the world-wide web.
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Each ‘movie’ (replete with opening titles and end credits) combines a live video feed with randomly loaded net radio sourced from elsewhere in the world. Text grabbed from a variety of on-line message boards is periodically inserted, appearing like cinematic inter-titles when viewed in combination with all the other components. The result is a coherent yet evocative combination of elements that produce an endlessly mutating edition of low-tech mini-movies that we call, Template Cinema.

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Short films about Flying now only exists as a simulated archive because some of the resources it uses have expired so Short Films about Nothing as seen here is our update that allows the conceit of the work to continue; i.e. that it is a dynamic and ephemoral work that uses live information as its material.

You can find out about Short Films about Flying here