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/imagine Ronsack (Exhibition version) from Michael C Coldwell on Vimeo.
“/imagine Ronsack” - video installation by Michael C Coldwell (2024) Music courtesy of Swansither Video created using original photography, Midjourney and RunwayML An /imagineRephotography project Short description: AI models try to imagine time passing from the perspective of an ancient oak tree that witnessed the dawn of the industrial age.
Long description: These digital hallucinations of history were created using photographs and generative AI. Models trained on the artist’s own rephotographic montages, and other relevant fragments of time, were asked to imagine an ancient oak tree in Shropshire, UK - a silent witness to vast changes since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. The work was created in collaboration with Tom “Swansither” Kennedy, who wrote the music for the piece and devised the original concept for the work. The great tree lies on farmland where Kennedy lives, inspiring him to create soundscapes that evoked a haunting sense of deep time. He writes “I visit the tree often, and imagine it with ears and eyes, a witness to some 40 generations of humanity, the changing landscape, Civil war and, most importantly, the Industrial Revolution that began in Coalbrookdale, barely a stone’s throw away, and changed the world forever.” Kennedy and Coldwell began working together on the project after Kennedy asked Coldwell to create a cover for the Ronsack album, based on his generative rephotography experiments. Coldwell conducts research into time, hauntology and AI. In this new kind of image generation, ghosts are summoned by artificial intelligence from countless photographic fragments, into a kind of spectral goo, that Coldwell has recently dubbed “Vectoplasm” - a reference to Roland Barthes’ writing on the spectrality of the photograph. This new ghostly digital “substance” is comprised of many traces of a real past mixed together, but unlike traditional photography, completely reconfigures them into bizarre new forms. While these traces can no longer be used as historical evidence in this formation, their digital deconstruction and reconstruction, does allow us to visualise impossible perspectives on time, and find haunting patterns in the data. /imagine Ronsack is the best current visual representation of this new concept. One of the key generative techniques used to animate /imagine Ronsack is frame interpolation, a method used to synthesise movement and the missing time between still frames. Usually this is used to tween between clearly related images in a motion sequence. However, the model was used in this work to imagine time completely missing from the source images. Ronsack is the also the name of the time-travelling tree in question. Ronsack saw the very beginning of the industrial revolution – a 300 year process that would finally lead to artificial intelligence - and this very mirage of its memories.
Simulating missing time with AI. Vectorplasm research by Michael C Coldwell
💬 0 🔁 2133 ❤️ 943 · Nosferatu (1922)
sorry simone, we can never disappear…
Modernity was built upon ‘technologies that made us all ghosts’, and postmodernity could be defined as the succumbing of historical time to the spectral time of recording devices.
{2025} Shh (May I Ask You All For Silence) (good quality version (takes time to load))
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘵, 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴' 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘞𝘩𝘰'𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦? 𝘞𝘩𝘰'𝘭𝘭 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳?
If, as Barthes claims, cameras are 'clocks for seeing', the space they show is nevertheless subject to the temporal hallucinations of human experience. This is the dialectical lesson of Barthes' Camera Lucida: the subjective time of the spectator invades the historical space of the image. Such a proposition might have already been intimated in eighteenth-century theory, with the concept of what was then called the "punctum temporis" of the picture. David Bate (2023) Photography After Postmodernism
VHS glitch from Memorex Mori by Conflux Coldwell (2023)
My latest hauntological work is out now on Subexotic Records.
My new portfolio is now live:
www.michaelcoldwell.co.uk
“Delayed” is 10 years old this year. This little film was really the start of my preoccupation with time, ghosts and #experimentalcinema. My second project about the horrors of urban commuting (I had been recently traumatised by a three hour daily commute), the short took audio and visuals from different parts of the day to represent the lost time.
Michael C Coldwell
New portfolio site:
www.michaelcoldwell.co.uk
“What makes photography a strange invention is that it’s primary raw materials are light and time” John Berger https://www.instagram.com/p/CnPFPssM3XX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Haunting is about space as much as time - about the spaces where the time rift becomes perceptible
Mark Fisher, No Future 2012
Views from Sunk Island has made another selection. The film will be screened as part of the European Short Film Festival (26-30 December 2022) in Berlin. https://www.instagram.com/p/CmMKmw3sqpg/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Without a doubt, Aristotle thinks of time on the basis of ousia as parousia, on the basis of the now, the point, etc. And yet an entire reading could be organized that would repeat in Aristotle's text both this limitation and its opposite.
Derrida, 1972
One year of coastal erosion in #holderness - Return to the Battery (2021-22) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgK–itIhPi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Rephotography by Michael C Coldwell
Time-lapse masterpiece recreated with virtual photography in GTAV!
Globe Yard, Quarry Hill 1909-2018. Rephotography quickly goes out of date. You can’t even stand here anymore. https://www.instagram.com/p/CcFrr0csGla/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
From A Window on Time (2018) by Michael C Coldwell