Catherine Forster

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Video - "Golden Oldies" (1:30 min sample)

        

"Golden Oldies "

"Golden Oldies" is a response to media overload and "group" orchestrated experience. The iPOD is the only "personal medium" in use today, young people particularly, use the iPOD to separate themselves, become one with their universe by plugging in to their iPOD, and plugging everything else off.

Music is generally considered the most powerful conduit for movement and emotional suggestion. In “Golden Oldies”, light and movement are used to create a visual score. I wanted to create a visual counterpart to music, which would operate much like music on an iPOD. The installation includes 5 iPODs; each iPOD plays a silent video inspired by a pop hit from the sixties: "Tiny Bubbles" (Don Ho, 1966), 'Under the Boardwalk" (Drifters, 1964), "Spinning Wheel" (Blood Sweat and Tears, 1969), "Starry Starry Night" (Don McLean, 1971), and "Sailing" (Christopher Cross, 1980). The pieces are the length of their title song and loop like a repeat setting on the iPOD.

Golden Oldies is an on-going project, new videos will be added from the 60s-90s.

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