Chris Cickocki's videos seem abstract to some at first, however it isn't just all about his quick repetitious images. These videos use rapid repetition to play with the viewer's mind in a sense. A professor in another course, N240 played a few clips from Cichocki's Elemental Shift DVD, which is where this clip was taken from. At first, my own opinion was that these "chapters" were odd, that they had nothing to do with anything, and really they made me a bit dizzy. But then my professor made a very interesting point to make me look at it in a different way: The videos are meant to play with your mind, not to disturb it. The viewer sees the images repeated so much that it becomes more of a question of 'when is it going to stop?' and then viewer likely anticipates this end. This reminded me of the time theme we are currently discussing in N201. Because of our technology, we are likely to become impatient after only a few seconds. After how many repetitions in these videos does one finally anticipate the end?
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