bret battey • bat hat media

 

time, bruised, selves

Co-created with Deniz Ertan
Video + Sound Installation (2024)

Premiere Installation Documentation

Conceptual and artistic co-creators Battey/Ertan’s audiovisual installation presents continually transforming, ultra-detailed abstract imagery dancing within a classical-guitar sound world of traditional and extended techniques. The work is inspired by the perpetual procession of three intertwined states of being:

  1. time passing; a space filled with moving; musical memories; impermanence,
  2. crises; illness; metaphorical and literal blows and bruisings,
  3. the shattering of the ego's shell into shards; inner selves colliding, dancing; the fragmentation of the soul and the psyche: self becoming.

time, bruised, selves was premiered by Phoenix Cinema and Gallery in Leicester, UK, Dec 2024 - Mar 2025.

Technical Details

Deniz and I developed the visual material with my custom OptiNelder plug-in filter for Apple’s Motion 5 video effects software, which visualises the activity of hundreds to thousands of mathematical algorithmic agents seeking the brightest points in an input image or the peaks of a mathematical function. We created the music through editing and montaging of classical-guitar improvisations by Deniz.

Presentation Details

Image size: 7680x1920 (2x 4k width)
Sound: stereo
Looping, 12 min 35 sec

Presentations

  • Installation
    • Dec, 2024 - Mar, 2025 – Phoenix Cinema and Gallery, Leicester, UK