'77 Million Paintings' is available on CD, DVD.
How do you think this affects the experience?
The '77 Million Paintings' that's available on DVD
as a bit of 'buyable' software is actually not this.
It's a different set of images in there.
There is a little bit of crossover.
But the project's developed aesthetically
more than it has technologically.
So, the choice of the different layered slides and images—
I'm calling them slides but in fact they're not at all,
they started life as slides—that's the main development.
I think when we first released ‘77 Million Paintings',
which must have been five, six years ago now,
we hadn't thought of taking it back into a gallery.
The decision to release it may have been different
had we approached the whole series of events
in a different order.
But I don't think it necessarily affects the experience
of coming to see these pieces, because a big consideration
for these pieces is that they're experiential and really
they film differently than if you're actually
sitting in the room with it.
The music's completely spatial as well.
So what an installation should do is make use of
the environment in order to create an effect,
which we try and do here.
That's something you certainly don't get if you just
put the software into your computer.
So, the idea's stepped on so far from the original release
that I think of them as completely separate.
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