FINA-S 300 Video Art Student Work: January 2012

We live with desire. Life is simply the desire for things to be different. We seek to resolve the tension inherent in desire, resolved through the achievement of a desire. Only to return with a new desire.

Desire itself is in a loop.

At the base is teleology—a goal—a purpose—a resolution. It is theatre. It is story. Boy gets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl…a plot…time moves forward with an itinerary to follow. We anticipate it.

We predict it based on past experience. We desire. A goal is reached, a plot point achieved, setting up a new desire and the loop begins again.

Sometimes the goal isn’t reached. The girl gives up on the boy and she gets a new boy, or does something completely different, but she’s still there, in action.

Pieces from Loop Theory by Brian Evans

http://www.lightspace.com/academic/docs/looptheory.pdf