Hector Rodriguez is a digital artist and theorist. His digital animation Res Extensa received the award for best digital work in the 2004 Hong Kong Art Biennial. It has been shown in India, China, Germany, and Spain. His game system CoPerspective was a finalist in the Games Meets Graphics competition at Eurographics 2006.

Hector Rodriguez是位數碼藝術家及理論家。他的動畫 “Res Extensa” 於2004年香港藝術雙年展中獲最佳數碼作品獎。“Res Extensa”曾於印度、中國、德國、西斑牙等地上映。他設計的遊戲程式 “CoPerspective”於2006年Eurographics的”Games Meets Graphics competition”中得到決賽席位。


Kinematograph
Artistic Concept and Programming: Hector Rodriguez



Kinematograph explores the possibility of an alternative, and essentially writerly, form of cinema based on the display and analysis of video data. Kinematograph is part of a series of works that explore the fundamental concepts of information theory and cybernetics. The concept investigated here is entropy encoding.

The theory of encoding addressees one of the fundamental aspects of writing: the construction of a dictionary. To encode an item (a word, image, sound, etc.) is to associate it with a codeword. A dictionary is thus built, which relates every symbol transmitted by a source with a corresponding codeword. The title of this project is thus meant literally: “kinema” denotes “motion”, while “graph” means “writing”. Thus understood, the title invites us to regard computational cinema as a manifestation of writing, in its most fundamental sense.

Kinematograph can therefore be seen as a contribution to the search for alternative, information-based forms of cinematic and literary art in a digital age.


Kinematograph 嘗試用文字數據的模式播放影片。它的創造旨在探索資訊傳播中一些最基本的理念 - 熵編碼法 (entropy encoding)。

編碼法提出，其一最基本的寫作元素便是「字典」的建立。如我們要攝收一個訊息 (如文字、影像、聲音)，便必須令它連上一個關鍵字。這本「字典」就是用作把符號與關鍵字連在一起。今次Kinematograph中的“kinema”是指活動，“graph”是指寫作，由此可見，此展品邀請我們從另一個角度- 就是從最基本的「字」去看電影。

Kinematograph的創造，是Hector Rodriguez在這個高科技的數碼世代中，對電影及文學藝術根本的探索與尋覓。