Eternity connects Hollywood romance with the origin of the cosmos
NEW YORK, February 21, 2011 -- The Institute of Static Studies (ISS), a research arm of the New York-based creative production studio MomenTech, has released "Eternity," a 43-second video featuring the famous kiss on the beach between Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr in the 1953 film "From Here to Eternity." At the end of that scene, the ocean waves morph into a recording of live television static from an old analog TV set.
Analog television static contains remnants of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR), the oldest light in the universe, which was recently mapped by NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP). This probe found that the universe is around 13.73 billion years old, the most accurate age we have so far.
As experimental digital photographer and author Rick Doble noted in a June 13, 2009, interview on National Public Radio (NPR), "A small percentage of the static that you see on an analog television when it's tuned to an empty channel is from the Big Bang."
Intermixing Hollywood sentimentality, astrophysics and spirituality, "Eternity" continues the experiments into the nature of CMBR and cosmology by the Institute of Static Studies (ISS), a research arm of the New York-based creative production studio MomenTech, which is known for its ground-breaking "Field Experiment," in which participants are encouraged to imagine a field after inducing self-hypnosis aided by the staring into live analog television static for a period of 10 seconds.
"Field Experiment," which recalls Nam June Paik's 1974 sculpture/installation "TV-Buddha," will be included in a forthcoming research publication produced by the Dresden, Germany-based Behringer Institute for Medical Research.
"Eternity" is a 43-second video featuring the famous kiss on the beach between Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr in the 1953 film "From Here to Eternity." At the end of that scene, the ocean waves morph into a recording of live television static from an old analog TV set.
Analog television static contains remnants of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR), the oldest light in the universe, which was recently mapped by NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP). This probe found that the universe is around 13.73 billion years old, the most accurate age we have so far.
As experimental digital photographer and author Rick Doble noted in a June 13, 2009, interview on National Public Radio (NPR), "A small percentage of the static that you see on an analog television when it's tuned to an empty channel is from the Big Bang."
Intermixing Hollywood sentimentality, astrophysics and spirituality, "Eternity" continues the experiments into the nature of CMBR and cosmology by the ISS.
The Institute's "Field Experiment," which continues the explorations of Nam June Paik's 1974 sculpture/installation "TV-Buddha," will be included in a forthcoming research publication produced by the Dresden, Germany-based Behringer Institute for Medical Research.
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