Dieter Kiessling
b. 1957
The first example was Dieter Kiessling's "Vorhänge", and in this case the existing drop-outs were retouched one by one using Final Cut Pro. Another work restored with Final Cut Pro and Photoshop was Marcel Odenbach's "As if memories could deceive me". This was only possible because the number of errors was very small, and so it was feasible to spend 20 or more minutes treating a single frame. A different strategy was used for Dieter Froese's "The piece in the country" and Valie Export's "Raumsehen und Raumhören". For both artworks we had a camera original and an edited master. In Export's work the edited Master represented the artwork in its final form (or at least one of its final forms) but the image quality was much worse and the deterioration much stronger than in the camera original. In Froese's case, although the edited version was in an earlier generation, the errors were much stronger and we therefore decided to use unedited material, existent in U-matic, which was in a better condition. In these cases we opted to re-edit the artworks from the best material available according to an edited version. These digitally edited files were, again, retouched using Diamant.
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