Thenumber5inthetitleindicatesthatthiscomputeranimationispartofaseries.[n:ja],akaAnnjaKrautgasser,workedwithaspecialscriptoriginallydevelopedforaudiovisualperformances.WhatalltheworksintheVoidserieshaveincommonisthattheyareinblackandwhitewithsimplegeometricshapesprovidingthebasisforcomputer-aidedformalstudies.[n:ja]followedastrategythatmediatheoristLevManovichcalledthe“paradigmofcomplexity”incontemporarymediaart. AnnjaKrautgasserusesthemediumofvideointhisworktodocumentaunique,unpredictable,andnon-repeatabledigitalprocessofimagegeneration. void.seqz5beginswithanemptywhitespace.Gradually,shortblacklinesenteritfromallsides,leavingbehindfinetraces.Thelinesconstantlychangedirectioninaseeminglyrandommanner,overlapandfillthepicturealmostorganically.Theanimationisguidedbyanoff-centrecounter,whichassignseachframeanumber,from0to100.Atitsconclusion,thegraphicstandsstillforafewsecondstoindicatethecompletionoftheautogenerateddrawing. ThesoundtrackbyMartinSiewert,fragileatthebeginning,developsparalleltothevisuallevel.Astheamountofblacknessinthepictureincreases,sodoesthevolumeanddensityofthesuggestiveelectronicsoundtrack. (NorbertPfaffenbichler;Translation:SteveWilder)