For this video portrait, we have decided to stroll down memory lane and make a portrait of television/technology and its role in our homes and lives.
Early televisions were seen as a point of pride and furniture in the homes, with whole rooms dedicated to it. Today the role of televisions has diminished in the house. Instead of dedicating a room around the device, they’re designed to be hidden. On top of that, our relationship to media has changed; we’re digesting more content across multiple devices that isn’t as precious as it once was. In fact, some of our videos today are designed to be destroyed after a short period of time instead of archived and held on to forever.
For the piece, we want to present our memory of TVs in their glory while referencing the new technology’s prominence. To achieve this, we will deconstruct an old television and build a diorama inside that closely resembles our memory of living rooms of the past. The television inside will be replaced with an iPhone that will be along the back wall. There will be three live channels feeding into the phone – the camera on the phone, a camera in front of the viewers, and a camera behind them. The three inputs will cycle. Below are a series of sketches, renders, and experiments in feed transitions.
Television Render:
Experiments with Channel transitions in Isadora: