working towards...

today I reverted back to video and also using stills to create a video, overlaid a number of images and videos with transitions and blending of layer like collage, hence the project name, collage.  It is work-in-progress and feels like a long way to go but it is working towards what I have in mind - a series or loop of created landscapes recording our path across and impact upon them. I want to link/embed with the sounds of different environments and machinery I have recorded. The idea is to present them as a projection in the AV room and utilise the dome projection for an encapsulated sense of space and/or goggles and/or interactive reflective video if possible , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxR6EVYj-aA. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/see-yourself-in-arcade-fires-interactive-reflektor-video-20130909

http://122909a.com

This is a great text from a book called "Post-Internet" by Gene McHugh.

Easy to read. Covers art in the post-internet society and how painting can relate to computers.

Two thumbs up.

CA

Had a laugh at the email from You Tube "Looks like someone's been inspired lately. Here are the videos you just uploaded." Why, thankyou YouTube, very perceptive of you. Actually, inspired by the links Jeremy shared with me last week to engineering and arts collaboration for interactive media for training and art. Posted a lot of links on the blog also here http://www.icinema.unsw.edu.au/projects/icasts---mining-vr/
"In a myriad of ways, the effects of the rapid uptake and convergence of new media technologies are felt and experienced by populations and individuals at the level of a virtual and actual sense of dislocation. Fragmentation of ”community”, urbanization, and the collapse of locale and neighbourhood, the erosion of the private spaces of the sexual and the familial – all these have emerged as themes attributable to the restructuring and divergent flows of new information economies and mediascapes.’ Anna Munster, in response to exhibition (dis)Locations, featuring Del Favero. I'm trying to source the DVD but so far, only the essays have been sourced.
http://www.videoartchive.org.au/dfavero/45minutes.html

Ben Ridgway; Cosmic Flower Unfolding

I just found this talented artist, animator who makes these hypnotic movies.

Art Ltd quote-
“Ben Ridgway presents his Continuum Infinitum, a kaladeoscopic, mandala-like digital animation, played as a continuous loop. Like the worlds created by artist and set designer H.R. Giger, Ridgway’s trance-inducing experimental animation seems inspired equally by the industrial and the organic. At the center of Ridgway’s animation is a still point from which fine details emanate. Imagine watching the “star gate” sequence of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey while inside a dome, thereby plunging you fully into the experience, and you get some idea.”

Tristan's blog : surrealism cinema study

http://chenquanyu123.blogspot.com.au/

line of canola

I recently pinned up on a wall in the print corridor, 186 images taken with a go-pro in a paddock of canola. The images were taken 1 every 10 seconds and then placed on the wall in sequence, as you walk along the wall you can see the light change, clouds move and a bit of movement from myself walking in the paddock. If you just looked at a few in sequence there would be no difference detectable, however when you walk down the corridor and look sideways you create you're own foot powered stop motion effect.
This isn't the greatest footage but it kind of gives the effect. its also running right to left just to change things around.

omg you guys i just made my first gif and it's probably the first of many gifs...
http://amymediaart.tumblr.com/

After a good discussion with Jeremy in class today (thank you) i have been busy on you tube and the internet looking up Stan Brakhage and his work.

"Mothlight"

Stan Brakhage

1963

  Brakhage constructed an organic visual nest (moth wings, grass, leaves, dirt) and put it between strands of tape, which was then rephotographed through an optical printer. 

"The Dante Quartet"

Stan Brakhage

1987

 Many of his most famous works pursue the nature of vision itself and transcend the act of filming. Some, including the legendary Mothlight, were made without using a camera at all, as he pioneered the art of making images directly on film, by drawing, painting, and scratching. 

 This led me onto Oskar Fischinger who was making video years earlier but with the same imagination, passion and inventive techniques.

"Allegretto"

Oskar Fischinger

1936

Fischinger manipulated hundreds of paper cut-outs hung on invisible wires and shot a frame at a time to make this animation.  

"Optical Poetry"

Oskar Fischinger

1938

http://www.oskarfischinger.org 

 This website has interesting information that Ive enjoyed reading. His paintings using circles is also relevant to some of my work I'm currently working on in the print studio....bonus.  

 "Pulling Whirl" 1964

"Revolving" 1965

processing and video

Today I wanted to apply the asci code to video  recorded from a site field trip to manipulate  the images to create an artificial/ technology world.  This has involved hacking the code from asciVideo routine to make it import the movie rather than video:
void setup() {
  size(1280, 960, P2D);
  // Load and play the video in a loop
  movie = new Movie(this, "SANY0023.mov");

inserting a save routine and ensuring enough # for the frames generated:
   saveFrame("frames/frame######.png");
making the saved frames increment and save to a folder on the desktop:
 for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {

then importing the frames into final cut pro to edit and create video

code changed in places, experimented to get an interesting image such as font size, 2.5 min video 4500 frames

fontSize = 1.5;

at this point still processing the movie into frames so fair bit of work to be done to create the final video, but original source material (2.5 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLCD0Ts34LEand short video with limited frames from  the video (3 sec) on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1skJ8mK34Cc

This is just one of the frame images (number 4281) with brightness/contrast adjusted in photoshop

Steven Morgana

Cosmos Cosmetica

 the colours, effects and pattern in this imagery is what appeals to me, thought i'd share it.

To be inspired - a couple of names and readings

Artists


Oneohtrix Point Never is an experimental musician, he just released the new album R Plus Seven and collaborated with artists Nate Boyce, Takeshi Murata (Jeremy showed us his work last week), Jacob Ciocci and Jon Rafman.
His sound piece and the artworks
http://www.pointnever.com/

Frédéric Sanchez is a sound artist, he is favoured by fashion designers for his runway show soundscapes.

His studio site

http://fredericsanchez.com/en/

His exclusive sound piece for NOWNESS

http://www.nowness.com/day/2010/5/26/661/fall-mixed-up-by-frederic-sanchez

Readings

(please ignore the 'top ten' title trope and just read)

The Top 10 Film/Video Artists on Artsy

http://artsy.net/post/editorial-the-top-10-film-slash-video-artists-on-artsy

(Artisy is a brilliant site!)

Moving Image London 2013

http://artsy.net/feature/moving-image-london-2013

Top Ten Deserving Data Visionaries

http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/17095/1/top-ten-deserving-data-visionaries

(The Art+Culture category on Dazed.com has great features! )

Top Ten Emerging British Artists Showing This Week

http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/17129/1/top-ten-emerging-british-artists-showing-this-week

cheers

 

Stumbled across this artist's work via Saatchi Online, there are some amazing images constructed from modern/industrial images and manipulated to suggest the natural environment, such as Above the Timberline 5 or River Flows in You.  I like this idea of melding the two environments and it it feeds the ideas that arose from the conference considering the aesthetics of sustainability. This is what I was starting to try to do with the last videos - using the images of concrete and plastic balls to create a different planet/world similar to the eye/sun video.
http://www.saatchionline.com/profiles/index/id/148858

Lee, Jiyen, Above the Timberline 5 materials aluminium size 59.1x59.8x1.2 in.  

Colour play on final cut pro.

Here are a few links to videos on youtube that I've been making from Canola field footage and random footage from the Darwin Crocodile farm and items in my home. I really get a buzz out of the kaleidoscope effect so I've used a lot.

The Canola videos I'm using in Art Project but the colour play one is for art media. will make more based on colours and patterns found within my home to make visually stimulating kaleidoscopic images, I hope.

sorry this is all up on the blog twice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmwZiZSiAOg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-q5fN7UIAk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt_13y2ZVWE

canola jill

canola 2

colour/pattern play

Enviro Fire Ae Workshop today

productive learning day. Looked at Takeshi Murata The Creators Project and Mc Keitch Madden Garden. Created 2 videos, one in After Effects (Ae) and the other using this Ae video in Final Cut Pro. The links to these are :

http://youtu.be/kqg5SLSgvxQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVwiqvnEANQ

The process as far as I remember

1. photos taken off phone, sent to dropbox, then copied into desktop folder "photos"
2. open one photo in Photoshop and created a set of actions to apply to each photo, took a few goes to get the effects what I wanted - glow like and smudged edges, some originals were of concrete and others of lights, fireworks and the kids in the balls. Image size width 1200, res 72. 
   
   
   
   
3. batch automate all photos from the file, these saved to a new file "action photos", FILE> AUTOMATE>BATCH remember to tick the override open, suppress dialogue boxes and suppress colour correction
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
4. open in After effects, NEW project , called Composition in Ae. duration set at 30 seconds - sufficient for today, width 1200  so set HDV/HDTV 720 25 = 1280 x 720 frame rate 25 
   
5. drag all images down to timeline
   
6. shorten them to length, change the opacity by adding in key frames, add effects etc. sounds simple - right?! 
   
7. render to create a video
8. import in final cut pro and apply mask, share
9. upload , to YouTube,  both videos
10. say well done me and thanks Gmail for the confirmation 
    

aesthetics of sustainability

Last week I attended the conference Aesthetics of Sustainability which was very thought provoking; it was challenging  and  interesting to have conversations about sustainability from a different (humanities) perspectives than usual (engineering) , listen to the key note speaker John Thackara , and view work of artists grappling with the concepts- many ideas churning now about how to combine and express these in the next weeks. The abstracts are available online http://humanities.curtin.edu.au/schools/DA/conference.cfm
reading two books, one a 'retro' 1971 the computer in art and the other, published 2000, internet art clash of culture and commerce. A quote from 1971 book "that the computer will inevitably become an artist's tool in the future" p.50

Portraits of gamers.