There is basically no sound accompaniment, it is only video. The concept of video paintings borrows from Brian Eno’s idea of ambient music in works “must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.” Like traditional paintings, video paintings hang on the wall to be viewed or passed over, depending on individual viewer preference in the moment. These samples are small extracts (about 10 seconds) from the original videopaintings; they run 30 till 60 minutes and loop automatically.
© ronald wigman 2009