Title: Mutual Impact/Reverse Methods
Gradual Interference 3.17 minutes
2010

What is "common knowledge" in our current era of heightened information? Do we feel that memory is lost when we amass too much data, or is our knowledge strengthened due to effective ways of absorbing information? How does perception affect knowledge? How do visual languages of mediums conflict and affect one another and inform the viewer? These are some questions I explore in the video installation entitled, "Mutual Impact" the first of a series of projects named Rivers Methods.

In this piece, the culmination of memories and past and present events reflect the impulses of urban environment. This video has been edited from already existing footages from my family archive, recent shots from our everyday lives and from nature. In the video, there will be repetitive movement of me shaking my head playing in the lower monitor, which will serve as a reminder to the self, thinking, " Consciously remember that you breath and remember that you think." But the shaking of my head desperately trying to get back to my thought and daydreams lasts only for few seconds. Slowly I get far away from my self, to what the outside world dictates me and the images changing paste and consistency are changing toward on the upper monitor until my next awakening when I shake my head again. All other parts of this video are images of the constant interferences of our surrounding.