Looping is a very intersecting idea to further explore in video art. I have never created a piece of video art, nor have I ever even thought about creating a loop. I definitely have seen loops, but I never thought much about them. There can be loops that simply just loop, but also there are loops that loop seamlessly. When they loop seamlessly, it creates the idea of no longer having a start or a stop. This idea is very cool because that means a viewer is able to start watching at any point and still see some sort of resolution or a story being made.
This reading explained the idea of being able to warp time with this concept. With time being a temporary thing, a loop video is able to have people experience more than one thing all within the same amount of time.
“The experience of the artwork is inescapably structured by the first moment of the story that is encountered.”
As the video loops back upon itself, at this moment the viewer is tacitly addressed and their viewing position potentially shifts, opening up space for critical reflection beyond the closed-cycle”
“viewers’ understanding of both cyclical and linear temporal structures—or as Fast says, a “notion of time that is both dysfunctional and liberating””
These quotes I pulled from the reading explain very well what the loops are able to do for a viewer through time and deception of time.
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