{"id":6650,"date":"2010-09-22T00:00:25","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T05:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=6650"},"modified":"2026-11-06T11:42:50","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T11:42:50","slug":"eryk-salvaggio-unfinished-mpeg-haiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=6650","title":{"rendered":"Eryk Salvaggio Unfinished Mpeg Haiku<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"first<\/a>
\nFirst Line (2002, 165kb, 7 secs)<\/a><\/p>\n

\"second<\/a>
\nSecond Line (2002, 224kb, 10 secs)<\/a><\/p>\n

If I remember rightly Eryk Salvaggio<\/a> posted a link to this tiny piece
\non the Rhizome list in 2002, at a time when the Rhizome Artbase was
\nstill rejecting some embryonic video or video like works as ‘not net-idiomatic’.
\nThe post was something of an epiphany for me and I suspect
\nwhen the history of online video comes to be written this work,
\ntogether with the Manovich “Little Movies”, will loom large
\n(As beginning to find a way towards precisely<\/em> a ‘net-idiomatic’
\nvideo practice).
\nAlso: I thought then (and I still think now) it is wonderful work.
\nHere’s what Salvaggio said about it at the time:
\n
\nMpeg Haikus
\nthese are short films which work in their original digital formats
\nas 30 to 60 second mpeg files. The idea was to stay “egoless”
\nas in the nature of a haiku, and so there is no design – the films
\nand the files are presented by whatever defaults your browser
\nuses. The first, “Unfinished Mpeg Haiku,” is a short 30 seconds
\nof an airplane’s vapor trails across the sky, the second, a 30
\nsecond loop of a bird hopping on industrial machinery.
\nThe third line is not represented, but is intended to be the
\nviewer’s response, ie. dismissal, understanding, happiness,
\nsadness- whatever meaning the viewer makes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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