Robert Edgar’s Bespoke Art Portfolio
Since the early 1970s I have created bespoke film, video, music, and computer-based cinematic artwork, as well as compositional tools.
This portfolio site presents computer/video work, musical compositions, and published articles.
APPERCEPTION (2024)
Apperception is the state where you attend to your own making sense of an experience, while it is happening. I created the video “Apperception” as a tool for triggering synaesthesia and practicing apperception. It has 5 parts: ->Atemporal, Prototemporal, Eotemporal, Biotemporal, and Zootemporal. 1 hr. 2.5 min. To request viewing access, email rbedgar@gmail.com.
IRRHYTHMIA (2023)
This is a final version of a remix of Orchids on the Orinocco. The original music is by Robert Edgar, and lyrics by Ethan Place. The IRRYTHMIA 2023 project spans a number of performance remixes of Edgar’s compositions. The approach roughly extends his 2006 series THE DUCHAMP EXAMINATIONS.
Click this link for a view of Simultaneous Opposites: 2008 to Present
Below is: A MORNING (2015) (6 Videos, created with the 2015 Simultaneous Opposites Engine)
6:15 AM
Simultaneous Opposites# 77: 6:15 AM from Robert Edgar on Vimeo.
6:38 AM
Simultaneous Opposites # 78: 6:38 AM from Robert Edgar on Vimeo.
7:00 AM
Simultaneous Opposites #79: SEVEN O’CLOCK AM from Robert Edgar on Vimeo.
7:30 AM
Simultaneous Opposites #80: SEVEN THIRTY AM from Robert Edgar on Vimeo.
8:00 AM
Simultaneous Opposites #81: EIGHT O’CLOCK AM from Robert Edgar on Vimeo.
8:30 AM
Simultaneous Opposites #81: EIGHT THIRTY AM from Robert Edgar on Vimeo.
Bending the perception of time?
Good question. I think not so much bending, as creating a time-structure that is kind of a perceptual knot… in the zipper-like construction of shot frames interspersed with other shot frames, nothing completes a motion without the starting or continuation of another movement. So it presents a phenomenon that is in some way irreducible.