Pre-session texts:

[13/06, 12:55] Emilio’s email:

My idea is based more on video than live intervention, but of course this is only one of the possible proposals.

I think of a meeting where we can present and see our videos well. 

We decide on a theme. For example: Peace. 

No words, just videos.

We each write the link of the video we want to share so that it appears in every window of the screen (with the camera off). The video lasts no longer than 5 minutes. We can decide that the video is made by the participants. We programme the projection and each of us in turn chooses a short sound that announces to the others which link is to be copied and watched. Each window at the sound turns on automatically indicating who produced the sound.

We could experiment with this at the next meeting.

[19/06, 02:49] Camilo’s email:

mmm Hello friends… 

I´m so excited you Emilio are driving the conversation with such openness to experimentation. It seems to me the best proposal for this 5th dialogue. I would like then for each of us 3 to bring a proposal prepared for the next session, that is, in this first case of Emilio, bring your experience to understand it in action. I can understand, however I suppose that the experience itself will make it better.

From my side, after experiencing 4 sessions with you producing this spontaneous format of the AULab, I would like the 6th meeting to “break” the zoom, to “break” the audiovisual… or not, or exactly the opposite, to “expose” ” the medium, the “artistic” if it is meant, to expose the fact of the “filmed box”… 

This last idea makes me think of “The Portal”, a project that simply excites me as a “meta” signifier of this zoom reality, of this instant portal to which we have the opportunity all the time, now with the video call and the instant message we could say teleportation is communication in our era, a reality that we even have the opportunity (and perhaps the need) to reinvent!

 In this way I imagine a series of interventions of the “space” given to each one by zoom, a representation, an appropriation, even a deep intervention of the box that each one has in zoom… or like “Blue”, an immersion that allows us to multi-mean being together experimenting at the same time through so many cameras, computers, cables, etc… I really like Emilio’s idea that each box has 5 minutes and a signal to continue, like a game of attention and coordination! Intervene deeply into Connection!

Thanks for giving me time to dream and “break” this eternal computer-hyperaudiovisual reality. 

[27/06, 10:36] Marlene’s email:

Dear friends,

🙂 Following also the conversation that we had the other day it is very exciting for me to try and follow the path of each ones zoom “window” as an “opening”, a “portal” as Camilo is saying, a space that allows for all of us to experiment together how we could connect even further through this audiovisual technology. I think we have been going through a lot of discussion and theory and all these ideas and floating concepts that unite us in trying to grasp something of these contemporary times together are there alive. We could get inspired through what stayed with us through the lab and go practical in a LIVE moment that we can start preparing with the 5th session on the 3rd of July and make it happen open to the ecoverse at the end of July for our 6th session (with a quick moment of “rehearsal” all together a few days before).

Also thinking about the intimacy of our own space, inner time that can become cinematographic as we discussed in the first meeting, and our “political” discussions on how to live our days and try to break the audiovisual boundaries to be able to communicate more through the audiovisual, we can experiment it practically. 

The zoom tool has a main screen where each of us sees the others’space (which is from the start a space of intimacy): each of us could think of what stayed with them through the lab and get inspired to think about something that would open up their zoom frame. It can be actually anything that could enhance that space (and its intimacy), we could bring the camera some place where we want it to be, a crossroad capturing the movements of the city, a tree full of birds or just a corner of our own room. If we wanted we could read passages of a book that we had been reading the evening before, or a talk about a dream or a conversation, actually something that we found interesting to bring to the space, to share something of our present lives to each other. Someone could also decide to show a video! But as everything has to be done live, we can show a video to the zoom camera through our phone screen for instance. And we could play with the sounds as you are saying, even because zoom is sensitive to that and there is a “view” modality in which the screen of the person making sounds is the one popping up bigger.

In any case we could start working during our 5th session all together on how to shape this 6th encounter. But I imagine it something like a moment of exchange using our screens, with no commentary or discussion, with individual contributions that can get connected also, connecting our spaces – that are very far away from each other – in a way that we can find out together. Nothing has to be complicated, we can give ourselves some simple rules that would help us shape a collective “experimentation” moment. It could even be a moment that help us observe more.

This is it for now. Let me know what you think !

Marlene

[27/06, 15:48] Emilio’s email:

I think Marlene’s text works well.

Let’s see what we will be able to do on the 3rd.

The thing I would highlight is the connection of “the windows project” to what we have done before in our lab.

Reconnecting  “window project “ to cinema, highlighting different roles and functions in the project.

Here some input:

What the concept of screenplay becomes in this project? Who are the screenplayers if there are any?

What about the actors?

What about the director or multi-directorsequipe?

What the time ( jolts per minutes and slow down shooting)?

What the relationship to our senses?

What about honesty and ethics?

And more important : relation between author and viewer

Session 5 Zoom Recordings and Notes from Session 5 on July 3rd, 2024

[27/06, 15:48] Emilio’s email:

…

The thing I would highlight is the connection of “the windows project” to what we have done before in our lab.

Reconnecting  “window project “ to cinema, highlighting different roles and functions in the project.

Here some input:

What the concept of screenplay becomes in this project? Who are the screenplayers if there are any?

What about the actors?

What about the director or multi-directorsequipe?

What the time ( jolts per minutes and slow down shooting)?

What the relationship to our senses?

What about honesty and ethics?

And more important : relation between author and viewer

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Emilio: 09.07

My comments after watching the 5th session (intent from minute 18:25)  are intended to improve the next meeting.

In summary:

Give our meeting a theme (with a title) so that we have different contributions but one ‘body’.

Our collective performance should lasting about 30 minutes.

Don’t move the mobile phone too much with shaking and shuffling during filming (this regards my filming

Zoom recordings and notes from Session 6, the Window Project, July 27th, 2024