videØvoid: TexT

David Larcher’s videØvoid is visually entrancing game with electronic imaging. Larcher plays upon the dead-end of the aesthetics of medium-specificity until it produces a Zen encounter with the void at the heart of the work, and by inference, the medium of electronic imaging itself. videØvoid seams to work from nothing, or rather from signal, static, screen snow - the inchoate stuff of the medium. The tape surfs the interface sense / nonsense... An exercise in electronic calligraphy... The drop out (lack of information) becomes the pixel (unit of information). From the trace reproduced by a single drop out is created a series of digital landscapes that provide the backgrounds for the flight of the Zenonian arrow towards void. Starting in the gap of the unsynchronized signal it insists itself into existence through the mirroring process of self-reflection. As it tries to attract that electron you’re not seeing before it gets to the hypothetical target of your mind... Reflection of it’s virtuality rather than anything real.