Pete
McPartlan
…is currently a Nottingham based artist who explores the potential of old video equipment, making short films and performances with old VHS-C cameras, bits of paper and a broken soldering iron. McPartlan uses analogue equipment because of its inflexibility compared with the limitless possibilities of the universal machine; seeking out some transparency in the way in which audio and image interact. Video Forms is a newly created work for startrunning where his prototype paper video synthesizer and rotating origami structures are used to create visible and audible rhythms on multiple monitors. Designing forms in three dimensions that create patterns in the 2 dimensional world of the image and the 1D world of electronic signals can be perceived by paper waveforms and electric structures all around the space. Where further oscillations around the PAL 50hz hum can be experienced in this structural composition method.
