Video recording refers here to a mode of capturing moving images as source material for later computational transformation, rather than as a fixed video intended only for straightforward playback. In the provided context, works are built from footage recorded with devices such as Hi8 camcorders, GoPro cameras, and high-speed professional camera systems. These recordings preserve events like train rides, window views, or other motion as frame-by-frame data that can later be reassembled, reinterpreted, or spatially transformed.
A key feature in this context is the use of high frame-rate capture. For example, one work records a monorail journey at 480 frames per second, producing hundreds of thousands of individual frames, each existing as a high-resolution still image. This makes it possible to treat video as a continuous sequence of photographs, stack frames along a time axis, and extract alternative cross-sections from the recorded material. The recording is therefore not just documentation, but the basis for operations such as color grading, coordinate transformation, volumetric reconstruction, and the rotation of temporal slices.
The sources emphasize that the work does not simply play back a fixed video. Instead, the recorded material is reprocessed so that time structure and spatial order can be altered. However, the provided context does not offer a broader general definition of “video recording” beyond these specific artistic and technical uses.