Two Video Errors   |  7:11 min  |   MiniDV  |  color, sound  |  2022  ​

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This video features unexpected transfer errors in the MIniDV footage I recorded at the Ásmundarsafn in Reykjavík. I performed the editing in-camera using a method I call Swiss-Cheesing—randomly scanning back and forth on a tape, dropping new video through old footage. Since MiniDV records digital information in lines across tape, errors often appear as bars on the frame, like Barnett Newman's zips, collapsing foreground/background and past/future.​ The title of the exhibition depicted here—Loftskurður—a collaboration between Rósa Gísladóttir and Ásmundur Sveinsson—translates literally as “air cutting” or “spatial Infractions."

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