This video shows the start of the new schoolyear here at the School of Interactive Media, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. Students of the Technology, Design and Interaction course opened the year with a collaboratively made “Lauf der Dinge” (literally translated as “the course of things”, a kinetic line of everyday objects.
V1 TDI Kinetische Kickoff 2009 from kopo on Vimeo.
To read more about the topic of kinetic line videos (made famous by the artists Fischli & Weis in 1987), please read Thomas Elsaesser’s piece: “‘Constructive Instability,’ or: the life of things as the cinema’s afterlife,” in the Video Vortex Reader: Responses to YouTube, by Geert Lovink and Sabine Niederer (eds.), Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2008, pp. 13-31. This reader is available for download as a pdf here.