Fiction Machines - Oporavak (video stills)

Fiction Machines is a multi-component output comprising a body of video art works, a journal article, a curated symposium and a journal special issue. The research considers how media art works can be developed that expose, rewrite and critique the mechanisms of contemporary control technologies from informational and affective perspectives. This item contains documentation of the initial video work Oporavak that was made in response to the research questions, in the form of video stills. The full film is documented in another item, via Vimeo link. Oporavak (2016) (4:40 minutes) proposes a methodology for what it calls ‘information recovery’ and the solving of ‘integrity problems’. Taking its inspiration from data recovery solutions and appropriating the language of achieving ‘complete visibility’ via forms of HD technology and big data, the film is part alternative software training video and part the voice of a subversive machine. It takes the intent of information restoration into a new context with its apparent ability to manipulate all sorts of digital and non-digital materials via its sentient interface and performative actions which can operate at molecular level. The film utilises the voice of an unreliable narrator, which acts to draw viewers in and raise their awareness of inbuilt human desires for clarity and visibility. It also attempts to make viewers aware of the affective content and remixing tools that are constantly used to manipulate their senses within post-internet culture and it does this by exposing the software tools and revealing the video effects that are being used. The final section of the film looks towards a ‘sensing mechanism’ that has the functionality to manipulate and alter any type of visual material at its source and the capability of connecting with and manipulating the subconscious of its viewers.

《虚构机器》（Fiction Machines）是一项多组件产出项目，涵盖系列影像艺术作品、一篇期刊论文、一场精心策划的专题研讨会，以及一期期刊特刊。本研究探讨如何从信息与情感双重视角，开发能够揭露、改写并批判当代管控技术运作机制的媒体艺术作品。本数据集包含为回应研究问题而创作的首部影像作品《复原》（Oporavak）的剧照形式文档。完整影片的文档则收录于另一项目中，通过Vimeo链接提供访问。《复原》（Oporavak，2016）时长4分40秒，提出了一套名为‘信息恢复’的方法论，用于解决‘完整性问题’。该片的创作灵感源自数据恢复解决方案，并借用高清（HD）技术与大数据语境下的‘完全可见性’表述，兼具另类软件教学视频与颠覆性机器发声的双重特质。它将信息恢复的意图置于全新语境中，通过具备感知能力的交互界面与可在分子层面运作的表演性操作，实现对各类数字与非数字素材的操控。本片采用不可靠叙述者的旁白，引导观众代入其中，并使其意识到人类与生俱来的对清晰性与可见性的渴求。同时，本片旨在让观众意识到后互联网文化中，那些持续用于操控受众感官的情感化内容与混剪工具，并通过揭露所用软件工具与视频特效来达成这一目的。本片的最终章节则构想了一种‘感知机制’，该机制可在源头层面操控与修改任意类型的视觉素材，同时具备连接并操控受众潜意识的能力。