Movie.mov is shown on top of the desktop, an environment which gets deconstructed during QTzrk. The first element, a 16:9 video, is a desktop video – a video captured from the desktop perspective – and features ‘movie.mov’. Technically, QTzrk (Jon Satrom, video installation, 2011) consists of two main video ‘elements’. Resolution studies also involves a research on alternative settings that could have been in place, but are not – and the technologies which are, as a result, rendered outside of the discourse of computation. But resolution studies does not only involve the study of the effects of technological progress or the aesthetization of the scales of resolution. In essence resolution studies is about literacy: literacy of the machines, the people, the people creating the machines, and the people being created by the machines. The case study serves as an introduction to: "Resolution Studies”, a proposal for a theory that involves more than just the calculation of resolutions as described in physics. With the help of this case study Menkman illustrates how certain digital video setting, or resolutions, are not supported unilaterally, but could have changed our entire understanding of the medium of video.
This essay starts with the description of a pioneering work of video art by Jon Satrom: QTzrk (2011).
]Ī chapter from Beyond Resolution (Menkman, 2020) || Beyond Resolution class materials Refuse to let the syntaxes of (a) history direct our futures.
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