1.11.11

ECLIPSE /// EVELYN C. HIRATA

I stumbled upon this video on youtube. Absolutely gorgeous.

27.10.11

LAURA BROTHERS

Stunning images by Laura Brothers... Please, check out her blog to see her drawings in the right resolution so you can see the flickers when scrolling down... Also, here is a nice interview she did for rhizome.











17.10.11

FEMMINIELLI /// ATLANTIDA

Music video for Femminielli. Experiments with basic 3D animation...

13.10.11

THE LUMINISTS // Dancing Calligraphy // 1992

Charles Cohen - audio
Eric Schefter - video
(1992)

Dancing Calligraphy was created at ETC in Jan. 1992, and edited later that year. In this piece we slowly strip away the layers of processing to reveal the source feedback that forms the basic ground from which the imagery arises.

In Dancing Calligraphy, the imagery was created utilizing control voltages from Charles' analog Buchla Synth controlling the Paik Raster Control Unit, the Jones Colorizer, and Jones Sequencer. We also used MidiMice and Buchla's Thunder midi controller to trigger DPaint4. The DPaint4 image cut a key in the video, revealing the many layers of processing that make up the final image.
http://datagarden.org/2656/beeps-and-boops-in-perspective/

http://vimeo.com/ursullivision
Thanks to Alex Tyson for this discovery.

28.9.11

REACTION-DIFFUSION /// EVA SCHINDLING

Computational reaction-diffusion systems mimic chemical pattern formation in nature. A mixture of two or more chemicals that react with each other and have different diffusion rates forms macroscopic patterns in time and space of chemical concentration. The chemical mixture stays in a continual flux and therefore far from equilibrium.

Alan Turing was the first one who proposed reaction-diffusion systems as a theoretical idea to explain biological morphogenesis. It demonstrates how breaking and pattern formation can arise out of a homogeneous, uniform state.

The Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction is a special non-equilibrium system that works as a chemical oscillator as it cycles through its different states in autocatalytic fashion. If unmixed the diffusing chemicals spread and cause spirals to emerge and grow.

Also, give a look at her inspiring website filled with inspirations, projects, research, links etc. http://www.evsc.net





24.9.11

ACTIVATED MEMORY

Stills taken from a serie of videos in progress that I have entitled "Activated Memory". I'm using photographs that I take of Montreal parcs and houses and I animate them in order to create enclosed gardens and artificial environments.











18.9.11

VOL LIBRE /// LOREN CARPENTER

I made this film in 1979-80 to accompany a SIGGRAPH paper on how to synthesize fractal geometry with a computer. It is the world's first fractal movie. It utilizes 8-10 different fractal generating algorithms. I used an antialiased version of this software to create the fractal planet in the Genesis Sequence of Star Trek 2, the Wrath of Khan. These frames were computed on a VAX-11/780 at about 20-40 minutes each.

7.9.11

AGE MAZE /// Le Révélateur

Video for Le Révélateur

Age Maze along with Bleu Nuit and Mirages will be released on DVD this October by the San Francisco label Root Strata.

24.8.11

VIDEO FEEDBACK - WILLIAM GWIN

Excerpt from:
Gwin, William
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Video Feedback: How to Make it; An Artist's Comments on its Use; A System Approach
. San Francisco, CA: National Center for Experiments in Television at KQED, undated.





23.8.11

WALTER VERDIN

I keep coming back on this video as an inspiration...
Check out also A melody by Walter Verdin on The Sound of Eye


15.8.11

ARTMATIQUE - ROBERT CAHEN - 1981

Cette œuvre faite de glissements de matières et de couleurs est conçue pour retenir le regard. Elle montre la forme suggestive de certains mouvements en retenant comme en écho l'empreinte de la trajectoire des images les plus signifiantes. Le système informatique utilisé, le S.M.C., a été mis au point par Jean-François Colonna au Lactame, l'un des laboratoires de l'Ecole Polytechnique : il permet de figer une image, de la numériser (en 1980 c'est une première et une prouesse technologique) et de la coloriser en direct. Le programme de traitement des images a été choisi par Dominique Belloir. 1981 / U Matic / Couleur / 4’ 15

More videos by Robert Cahen here

11.8.11

LE MESSAGE SIDÉRAL - HERVÉ NISIC - 1983

Les images qui vous sont présentées ont été recues par la station astronomique de Lançay. Elles ont été tenues secrètes à ce jour... 10'22

http://grandcanal.free.fr/


1.8.11

STATION BALNÉAIRE /// VARIATION I

Images of the Almalfi Coast have been transformed by video feedback. The rigid transitions, inspired by early computer art, contrast with the aleatory movements of the electronic light.

Music by Roger Tellier-Craig