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From the Ted Talk by Gabriel Barcia-Colombo: Capturing memories in video art

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So instead, I tnured to video, and video is the next best way to preserve and memorialize someone and to capture a specific moment in time. So what I did was, I filmed six of my friends and then, using video mapping and video projection, I created a vedio sculpture, which was these six friends projected into jars. (Laughter) So now I have this cioeltclon of my friends I can take around with me whenever I go, and this is called Animalia Chordata, from the Latin nomenclature for human being, catlafcossiiin system. So this piece mzriiameeols my friends in these jars, and they actually move around. (Laughter)

Open Cloze


So instead, I ______ to video, and video is the next best way to preserve and memorialize someone and to capture a specific moment in time. So what I did was, I filmed six of my friends and then, using video mapping and video projection, I created a _____ sculpture, which was these six friends projected into jars. (Laughter) So now I have this __________ of my friends I can take around with me whenever I go, and this is called Animalia Chordata, from the Latin nomenclature for human being, ______________ system. So this piece ____________ my friends in these jars, and they actually move around. (Laughter)

Solution


  1. collection
  2. classification
  3. turned
  4. memorializes
  5. video

Original Text


So instead, I turned to video, and video is the next best way to preserve and memorialize someone and to capture a specific moment in time. So what I did was, I filmed six of my friends and then, using video mapping and video projection, I created a video sculpture, which was these six friends projected into jars. (Laughter) So now I have this collection of my friends I can take around with me whenever I go, and this is called Animalia Chordata, from the Latin nomenclature for human being, classification system. So this piece memorializes my friends in these jars, and they actually move around. (Laughter)

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Important Words


  1. animalia
  2. called
  3. capture
  4. chordata
  5. classification
  6. collection
  7. created
  8. filmed
  9. friends
  10. human
  11. jars
  12. latin
  13. laughter
  14. mapping
  15. memorialize
  16. memorializes
  17. moment
  18. move
  19. nomenclature
  20. piece
  21. preserve
  22. projected
  23. projection
  24. sculpture
  25. specific
  26. system
  27. time
  28. turned
  29. video