Anticipations is an installation created by statistically processing the video imagery from my earlier project Alibi (Black or White) project.

The starting point is three video clips, each 1177 frames (47.08 seconds) long. The first clip is a venerable bluescreen sequence from Michael Jackson’s music video Black or White, modified for a looped playback. I made two new videos by successively morphing all representative facial frames and all transitional facial frames from the first video. I generated the final images and videos by systematically aligning and averaging the formal values such as luminance, hue, and position of the imagery in these three clips.

Procedures: Averaging the three video clips; HSV averaging of all 1177 frames of each video clip; Averaging all 1177 frames of each video clip into one image; Sequencing all the 1177 HSV averaged frames from each video clip into one image (38×31 elements); HSV averaging all of the 1177 HSV averaged frames.

Statistically based visual transformations refer to the early experiments in composite photography, morphing, and infographic visualizations and prefigure recent and contemporary generative art practices, particularly Amalgamations (1997-2010) and Color-Averaged Frames (1997-2012) series by Jason Salavon, to the Illuminated Average (2000-2001) series by Jim Campbell, and to such projects as Disgrand and HSV Space Arrangement (both 1998) by Ben Fry, Palette Reduction (2009) by Ryland Wharton and Cinemetrics (2011) by Frederic Brodbeck.

They reveal the abstract essence of visual phenomenology and indicate the evolutionary basis of the manipulability of visual perception which is the primary human sense and powerful cognitive and contemplative device.

The installation was presented in Contact Gallery SCC in Kragujevac, Serbia, and at the Formless: Fluid Reality in New Media Art exhibition in MoCA Salon in Belgrade, in 2015.