Scott Billings
Indefatiguable Bug | 2008 | 10:00min loop | Video Installation | Canada
Smooth Pursuit (60 Hz) | 2008 | 4:30min loop | Video Installation | Canada

Scott Billings’ artistic practice is interdisciplinary, combining concepts and methodologies from science and technology with traditional art forms and media such as drawing, sculpture, and video. The facture of his art objects often involves a technological puzzle or conundrum of some type, frequently incorporating custom software and electronics to control or automate the delivery of a representation. Scott is currently completing an MFA at UBC, and he holds a BFA from Emily Carr University and a BASc from the University of Waterloo.
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Indefatiguable Bug: The title of the piece refers to a Philip K. Dick short story entitled The Indefatigable Frog which features a physicist and a philosopher discussing Zeno’s Paradox, the paradox which refutes the veridicality of perceived movement and supports the Paremenidian holistic doctrine that ‘all is one’.
Smooth Pursuit: Shot with a high-speed shutter the CRT television reveals its hidden refresh rate with visible moving bars of light and dark. The turtle, placed before a dominating screen of static, seems at once propelled by these invisible bars of motion and by an unrelenting determinism to emerge from the water.
