[NetBehaviour] Digital Snow: Now on the Web

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Digital Snow: Now on the Web

The DVD-Rom anarchive 2: Digital Snow was co-produced in 2002 by the 
Daniel Langlois Foundation and Époxy Communications. From June 2011 to 
January 2012, with permission from Michael Snow and Anne-Marie Duguet 
(anarchive), the Daniel Langlois Foundation has transposed Digital Snow 
to the Web:
www.fondation-langlois.org/digital-snow

An introduction to Digital Snow, by Elizabeth Legge

This project, Digital Snow, is what Snow calls an encyclopaedia of his 
work of the past six decades. It is not organized by chronology or by 
the many different visual and sound media in which he works, but rather 
by the core "principles" that motivate his explorations. It presents 
eighty-four key works that illustrate these disparate principles, which 
are not homologous, but include an array of media, techniques, entities, 
and properties.

Snow is alert to the specificities and possibilities of digital 
reproduction. In Digital Snow we are given excerpts of films and samples 
of work that can cue us to certain aspects of the material, while being 
clear that no work can be fully recreated by such reproduction. Snow has 
had to make careful decisions about which of his films could withstand 
transfer to digital media without loss of their properties. As one 
example: while resistant to the idea of transferring his iconic 
forty-five minute film Wavelength (1967) to video – since its being a 
film is integral to its meanings – Snow came up with a way that it could 
be done...

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http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?Repere=201202&NumPage=2246 


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