i love the hard transition blips, but i’m not so keen on the overly bright shapes. the monochrome shape, floating above the planet, invokes a sense of fear & doom that i find oddly appealing. it’d be interesting to see what one could do using just sound files/images available from nasa’s archives. possible future assignment?
CTRL ALT SHIFT, VJ-dokumentär
Ctrl Alt Shift is a documentary exploring VJ Culture.
With Interviews and Footage from
The Light Surgeons D-Fuse Hexstatic Vj Anyone Addictive TV Vector Meldrew and Fatamorgana
Projecering på fasad. Snyggt och välgjort men tycker konceptet är lite tunnt. Tänk dig något liknande fast läskigare och mer urflippat med ännu mer skumma ljudeffekter och musikaktiga snuttar.
UrbanScreen är det som skapat renderingen som de kallar för 555 KubiK. Via CDM.
Videon är gjord utav Siggi Eggertsson. Bonuspoäng för Battlestar Galactica referens.
Brother Cavil: In all your travels, have you ever seen a star go supernova? Ellen Tigh: No. Brother Cavil: No? Well, I have. I saw a star explode and send out the building blocks of the Universe. Other stars, other planets and eventually other life. A supernova! Creation itself! I was there. I wanted to see it and be part of the moment. And you know how I perceived one of the most glorious events in the universe? With these ridiculous gelatinous orbs in my skull! With eyes designed to perceive only a tiny fraction of the EM spectrum. With ears designed only to hear vibrations in the air. Ellen Tigh: The five of us designed you to be as human as possible. Brother Cavil: I don’t want to be human! I want to see gamma rays! I want to hear X-rays! And I want to – I want to smell dark matter! Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can’t even express these things properly because I have to – I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid limiting spoken language! But I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws! And feel the wind of a supernova flowing over me! I’m a machine! And I can know much more! I can experience so much more. But I’m trapped in this absurd body! And why? Because my five creators thought that God wanted it that way!
phew…! we have just finished our short film for the f5 festival in new york. following a really busy year making commercials we had the opportunity to make an experimental short film of our own. it was a LOT of hard work, even the weather was against us, but we managed to get it finished. it’s a bit odd and we very nearly ran out of cubes but we got to try out some brand new techniques and shoot some more live action, which we love. check out some stills in the shorts section, or even better see it at the festival which should be great!
Tronfärger, dopplereffekt och klingons. Klipp ihop, VOILA. Det är så här man vill ha sci-fi filmer om man fick bestämma själv.
Andreas Schlegel
“Andreas Schlegel currently teaches Interactive Art in Singapore. He likes to write programs that generate audio, visual, and physical output. He enjoys doing projects with syntfarm.”
Field
Ett nytt verktyg för att skapa “digital konst” är under utveckling. Det heter Field, är open source, finns bara till mac änsålänge och verkar helt fantastiskt. Tänk dig en blandning av Processing och typ Quartz Composer. Kodflexibilitet blandat med schyst grafiskt gränssnitt och smidig enkelhet.
“We almost always work in a collaborative contexts — where the collaborators are not only other digital artists, but also programmers, choreographers, composers, musicians, and lighting designers. For such projects, the algorithms have to be created simultaneously with the ideas and the aesthetics, and usually under the typical time constraints of collaboration (the cost of theater time, the pressure of live performance, etc).
Working like this means that we have had to devise an authoring system for ourselves that can keep pace: flexible so that the artwork can be revised, recast, and reconsidered as rapidly and as radically as creative collaborations usually demand; and powerful so that new algorithms and control structures can be created from scratch rather than simply selected from a limited menu of preset options.
More than an authoring system, Field is in fact a system for creating authoring systems (a “meta authoring system,” if you like). It seeks to allow artists to fashion their own authoring environments for any given domain they are working within; and as they work they can continue to adjust and even recast their environments as the need arises.”
