desktop microinvasion

Desktop Microinvasion

Digital, Stop Motion Animation. 9:42 minutes. 4:3. 2008

Produced from over a dozen separate stop motion and frame-by-frame animated sequences created from thousands of photographs, Desktop Microinvasion is an animation about loss of life and loss of control. Its visual subjects range from both two- and three-dimensional materials and sources including digital stills, medical scans, spontaneous drawings, metal rods, sticks, paper cut-outs, envelopes and junk mail. As it unfolds, abstract forms grow ceaselessly, expanding and spilling out of their boundaries. An anonymous figure is seen in a series of desperate and futile attempts to contain, reorder, reanimate, and reconnect as an unrelenting and merciless disease runs its course.

The animation is set to a series of disparate and discordant sounds and recordings, including abstracted noises, instrument samples and household utensils, which establish a tense sonic atmosphere. Amid the noise the highly processed and abstracted voice of the poet Dylan Thomas can be heard reading from his poem And Death Shall Have No Dominion.