The project -./ is a six-minute video that uses Morse code to visualize and sonify a section of the index from the book Point and Line to Plane, written by Wassily Kandinsky in 1926. It is a commission by the Kunstverein Medienturm for a limited DVD Edition that brings together contemporary media artists, many of whom delve into and examine through audio visual means the concept of abstraction in relation to its development and implementation in artistic and cultural practices.
The project -./ attempts to conjugate the type of linearity found in a narrative work with the immediate, self contained character of an abstract one. By interpolating the visual space generated in the video's composition of abstract elements (e.g., line, plane) with the informational space constructed in the Morse code translation, the work inverts the commonly known method of narration in audio-visual media. By presenting an abstract or non-objective video sequence which linearly reads Kandinsky's text using Morse code, the work reverts filmic strategies of narration to a paradox. The content and meaning of the video are not dictated by its visual narrative but rather by the time sequence in which the video and sound clips are edited.