Jon Jost: Trinity and Other New Works

Trinity is an installation on a grand scale being prepared at the ZKM (media art school) in Karlsruhe that, in its final form, will comprise 10 projection screens and a special architectural space. The summary shown here, a kind of preview, consists of a sampling of images for a single screen. This concentrated choice provides an impression of the painterly quality of the images that came about by processing and manipulating a short shot (of one minute and 20 seconds) several times in a complex way on the advanced computers in Karlsruhe. The expression painterly quality
can be taken fairly literally here: the images are often purely abstract and can only be compared with the famous works of the historic abstract Expressionists. The completed final work will be on show in Karlsruhe in the autumn of 2002.Alongside Trinity, this programme comprises a selection of new short films by Jon Jost. They are films that result from the working process with digital video. A kind of playful experiment, in which he profited from the minimal costs of the medium and from its technical and aesthetic flexibility. The films are, in a manner of speaking, a kind of byproduct, made without any specific intention, almost as if they came about by accident. They demonstrate the many audiovisual possibilities of the digital medium and of course the ingenuity of the maker.