FMX 463

sojourn (n.) - a temporary stay. This installation is a music video for the title track from my recently released EP. I filmed this video while I was home for Thanksgiving break. I only used one camera to film my younger brother wandering through Ocean City, New Jersey. We grew up in a town five minutes from there, so we have plenty of fond memories going on amusement park rides, playing mini golf, and eating ice cream. I wanted to capture this sentiment even though we have both grown up. The DIY-ness of the video is intentional as I wanted it to look almost like a home video. We all have place from our childhood that evokes happy memories. One of those places for me is Ocean City. I sojourned home for Thanksgiving, and I wanted to show you all a piece of my home. Instructions: 1.) Turn on computer and projector. 2.) Open the Mad Mapper file "FMX 463 Final." The video will loop. 3.) Play the "Sojourn" audio file. An iteration has completed when the song pl

The project is installed and ready to be presented.

I have purchased the necessary materials to construct the objects I will be projecting on.

Hito Steyerl is a German filmmaker, visual artist, and writer. She was born in 1966 in Munich. She earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and is currently a Professor of New Media Art at the Berlin University of the Arts. Steyerl pushes the boundaries of video art while focusing on topics such as militarization, surveillance, and the effect of media on our lives. I really enjoyed her video installation Factory of the Sun. Viewers sit on lawn chairs while watching a video on a large screen in a room that looks like something out of Tron . "Factory of the Sun uses the motifs of light and acceleration to explore what possibilities are still available for collective resistance when surveillance has become a mundane part of an increasingly virtual world. Factory of the Sun tells the surreal story of workers whose forced moves in a motion capture studio are turned into artificial sunshine." https://vimeo.com/182657047

Here's the music video for my song "Sojourn." I filmed this while I was home for Thanksgiving break. I'm gonna chop this video up and project those videos on my objects for the final presentation.