ENTROPY

1-channel video work, 2004

duration 00:25:00 :00, mute

 

Infrared camera is a device that forms an image using infrared radiation instead if visible light. IR cameras can operate on wavelenghts up to 14 000 nanometres. The measurements are visualized in an image that reminds of the one we see with our naked eyes; still, the image is data visualization, not a photographic image in the traditional sense.

 

It is in the nature of optical devices such as infrared cameras to aesthetizise the subject: the devices are calibrated to respond to a narrow range of radiation, in order to gain most accurate information. The device ”sees” only what it needs to see. As the image reveals something of the invisible reality, the image thus also becomes a surface, which covers up other realities.

 

The video installation Entropy, the first of the IR works, shows the coolong down of a horse's body after its death, recorded with an infrared camera. The original rcording of 9 hours has been edited to a 25 minutes loop.