The physical body of the work occupies a miniscule amount of space, but consists of a highly condensed fusion of chairs, lamps, computer wiring, and dozens of reflective surfaces bearing projected and fragmented clips.
As a counter to the tendencies of digital culture, Sikander has disallowed the digital sharing of her video (beyond fragmented clips), meaning that the only way to see the incredible animation is to take a trip up to Medford, Massachusetts.
The universal appeal of these visuals are reflected in the sounds, where the music and characters' speech is fragmented into tiny clips and then scored through programming, a progressive soundscape that uses "controlled randomness".
The prose has an essential and timeless element, somewhere near the tone of early Cormac McCarthy and the novels of José Saramago, while also quietly subverting itself throughout using deceptively casual formal digressions like lists, clipped dialogue, monologue, fragmented dream imagery, and repeating threads.
The drawings are all rendered in clipped, spindly, agitated lines that loosely describe fragmented, luxuriously reclining female nudes, all shattered in the amorphous space of large sheets of paper.
Mr. Morrison's film clips had their characteristic swift punch, from an animated dancing monkey — surprisingly sinister when fragmented and taken out of context — to a sequence of footage of floods that was particularly melancholy post-Sandy.
Featuring the producer clad in an imposing welding helmet ominously wandering empty urban spaces including tunnels, parks, and streets, the clip poses an eerie counterpoint to the track, which offers a hyperreal take on fragmented techno sounds.
A particular challenge for experiments involving targeted isolation of complex-associated RNA, such as in ribosome profiling [ 2, 3], CLIP-seq [ 4, 5], or modified base cleavage studies is that the RNA must be partially fragmented, which releases a plethora of rRNA digestion products.
It is also more fragmented.
Everything was extremely fragmented.
