Steven Hoskins is a video artist and designer living in Richmond, Virginia, USA. He have spent most of he's life as a graphic designer, and recently as a graphic designer educator who teaches and works in video. Much of this work involves visual explanations for the hermeneutic circle: the understanding of meaning derived from inter-relationships between part to whole. For him, this is embodied in the video image that is broken and reassembled; fragmented and reconstituted; a union made of asynchrony. Chaotic and irregular movement converges into unified movement; entire frames of multiple small frames begin to move as a system.

Flag waving 1 by Steven Hoskins, video, 2008

Emergent complexity in orchestrated asynchronous movement from 1 to 256 multiple split screen channels. The vídeo frame is reconsidered as separate video channels on an increasing complex grid. The channels are used to compose an emerging mosaic of waving flags, accompanied by an irregular metallic clang of roping on a flag pole, flag flapping, and gusts of wind that drive the transitions and transformations. The chaotic and irregular movement of waving ultimately converges into unified movement; the entire frame of multiple small frames begin to move and wave as a system.

 

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