m a r t e n b e r k m a n
m a r t e n b e r k m a n
the ecology of perception
Stereo 3D network installation “Remote Sensibility: Binocular Sensing”
A very short sample of my first remotely recorded stereoscopic film, with web cameras installed near the arctic circle, Baffin Island, Nunavut. I recorded this in my Yukon studio, 3000 km away, for a period of one year. Extending our optic nerves through temporal and geographical space as the images trace independent routes to my server, dimensional perception is dependent on the vagaries of the web. Camera installation space courtesy of Billy Atungat, Parks Canada. In this image we see the base for a radio transmission tower, next to a traditional elder”s meeting house, in a fjord that has been a seasonal home to countless generations of Inuit. A collapsing of time, and remote space.
I would like to gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Parks Canada, and Qiniq who supplied one year of wireless broadband transmission for the piece.
Billy Atungat shared the story of an old seasonal camp discovered up the fjord, used by countless generations of his people. See below for a stereo recording of his stories in this place.
Stereo 3D video installation “Remote Sensibility V”
A sample of the HD stereo 3D video installation is included in this walk-through video of the premiere exhibit of “Remote Sensibility V” at Yukon Arts Center Gallery, 2009. The video installation projection is life size, with a 4 meter-diagonal screen. Music courtesy of Sigur Ros, with thanks to Dean O”Connor at Big Dipper productions. Completed with the generous assistance of Canada Council for the Arts and Yukon Advanced Artists Award.
The Nature Of
An early experimental installation work, presented at Brave New Works in the Yukon. Inspired by the old Canadian Hinterland Who's Who on CBC, this is a contemporary vignette for contemplation.
Moon Time Line
An early experimental installation work, presented at Brave New Works in the Yukon. Inspired by the old Canadian Hinterland Who's Who on CBC, this is another vignette for contemplation.
Stereo 3D documentary
Billy Atungat shared the story of an old seasonal camp discovered up the fjord, used by countless generations of his people.
Early Video Installation
Stereo 3D video installation “Remote Sensibility VI: Piles of Trees/Overburden”
A short stereoscopic meditation on the boreal forest. Vessel of life, source of shelter and heat, summarily razed and burned as overburden. This S3D video is for projection, part of my Remote Sensibility series. Inspired by the industrial unravelling of boreal forest, it is a contemplation on our relationship with it. Part of “Untrue North” and “Cascadia” group exhibits. To see the exhibit, visit here. Completed with the generous assistance of Canada Council for the Arts and Yukon Advanced Artists Award.
Stereo 3D content on this page viewable by default in anaglyph stereo 3D with Google Chrome. Html5 not supported by all browsers.
This is a low-fidelity means of sampling content intended for two-channel HD projection.
Recent cinematic works for installation please see Erratic Silence and Hart to Heart: reflections.
An experimental S3D art film for gallery installation or theatre.
“A quiet walk across the arctic circle invites contemplation on life, death and eternity”
When I journeyed by foot in the high arctic in 1990, capturing the landscape on black and white film, I had a yearning to capture the very presence of the stones beneath my feet. I wondered about holography at the time, but rediscovered stereo imaging in 2005. This piece was created using S3D HD video recorded on Baffin island in 2008 while traveling with my friend artist Cory Trepanier. Poet and novelist Anne Michaels who wrote the foreword to my book “Chasms of Silence”, which is a limited edition portfolio of the back and white arctic work, has let me adapt her text to this film. Wanting to maintain silence in the landscape, these musings appear as text suspended in the landscape. This film is an experiment in adapting poetry and prose and photography, to time based stereoscopic media.
World premiere at Les Rendezvous du Cinema Quebecois, 2014.
Sound design includes voice by Jennifer Berezan and Tanya Tagaq Gillis.