As this poem of less than twenty words runs its course, video of zooming down a road explodes across the screen accompanied by the music of passing wind. Tao is a momentary experience that attains a meditative pace very unusual in computing and in modern life, while at the same time evoking the reality of violence.
Tao is a short poem that is accompanied by a soundtrack of wind with a video that has some sort of fragmented shape that floats through the air. The poem reads as follows:
earth blown out to stars – stars blown down to earth by fast cars – baghdad and addresses of the invisible
I think that this E-Lit piece demonstrates quickness not only because it is short (the poem itself only lasts for a minute) but because the inclusion of the two screens side-by-side make that amount of time pass by very fast. The ability to flip each screen back and forth is distracting in a way that it pulls you closer into the poem. The poem goes by quickly, but the inclusion of the ambient music and the etherial video don’t give the sense that you are rushed.
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