BoardsMag.com has an interesting insight given by production designer James Chinlund on the Puma “Lift” commercial/campaign by New York based creative agency droga 5 and director Rupert Sanders from the LA production company MJZ we’ve posted an article about earlier this month.
Vellum is a massive installation by german artist Robert Seidel commissioned by the Nabi Art Center and shown on several LED screens with huge dimensions in and at the SKT Tower in Seoul, South Korea.
”In a time of complete virtualisation of knowledge, science and monetary flows the virtual sculpture “vellum” transfers the memory of one specific urban rhythm to another locality. … In vellum motion is form and form is motion…”
The video is a documentation and an excerpt of the work.
DATAFLUX 0.1 is an installation by Australian artist Kit Webster currently shown at the RMIT school of art gallery in Melbourne. It utilizes the video mapping technology and the projected light is generated with vvvv. Additionally the sound and a strobe light is triggered and synchronized also via vvvv.
The real beauty of such an installation or of an installation in general is revealed by standing in front or inside of it rather than watching it on a flat computer screen. But we really like the simplicity, rhythm and sounds of this one and it worked for us. Well, and Melbourne is way off for a quick city break at the moment ;)
Kit Webster will also show some other new work at the Blindside exhibition space in Melbourne soon.
24 year old German guy and former video editor Timo Rychert discovered his interest in motion graphics, animation and video art and is now studying at the Vancouver Film School for already a year.
After living in Iceland for three years he also has been heavily influenced by the experimental icelandic art style.
“Goo” is a beautiful, visual study of an unidentified, white and sticky material and it is the intention of the artist to leave it to the imagination of the viewer, what it actually might be — “…it’s part of the concept that people don’t know for sure.”
“My short film ‘Goo’ was done at the Vancouver Film School and for this project we were free to do whatever we wanted, so I decided to work out this specific idea that I have had for a while. ‘Goo’ explores the theme of motion and does this in a really abstract way. The viewer is confronted with a white substance, that does not seem to belong to its surrounding, yet it interacts with it in an unusual and interesting way. The purpose of the piece is simply to create something visually interesting, which the viewer can enjoy watching without even necessarily knowing what the white substance is.”
Timo also has been so kind to give us some technical details about the process:
“The whole piece is shot with the time lapse technique, I used a Canon EOS400 SLR camera connected to a timer remote control that allowed me to take a picture every few seconds. Post production was entirely done in After Effects, including the editing, because I needed to do some complex time remapping to fit the visuals to the music.”
The also experimental music is by Matthew Collings and Mikael Lind (both from Reykjavik, Iceland).
Inspired by the fact, that electric signals can stimulate muscles and move whole body parts, Daito Manabe has been working on this idea since some time now. He also was influenced by the work of the French researcher Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne (1806-1875) and the Australian artist Stelarc (Performance “Ping body”, 1996-1998).
He uses the Max/Msp programming plattform to create the electric shocks based on the music. The impulses stimulate the face muscles (or any other muscle if needed) and cause different facial expressions. These externally influenced expressions stand in contrast to a human smile caused by real emotions.
Daito Manabe also uses the “Face Instrument” as part of a live show and has already performed at festivals like the annual ARS Electronica Festival in Austria (where also Stelarc was a regular guest during his active period — I still remember the scandals cause by his great performances shown on Austrian TV).
The face visualizer videos known as “Electric Stimulus to Face test” are experiments contributing to the whole project … starting with test0
New York based creative agency droga 5 and director Rupert Sanders from the LA production company MJZ (who also have Spike Jonze on board) have produced this great commercial for German show manufacturer Puma. It utilizes the technique of video projection mapping in a very cool and charming way. Also the accompanying print campaign uses this style.
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Video mapping is very popular among VJs nowadays and AntiVJ would be a good example to mention with some beautiful work on their pages. The technique has also already found it’s way into large scaled event productions (e.g. via Neoproj video mapping system).
After being played on heavy rotation all over BBC’s Radio 1 station, Mistabishi’s (Hospital Records) drum and bass and breaks smasher finally has a visual side to it. This video has been made/directed by Kenny Frankland at his TinSpider Studio and shows the transformation of a harmless, old school dot-matrix printer into something like a bionic robot monster, that spits printed code into the air.
Sometimes it’s the simple ideas, that make something really great and beautiful. And also sometimes this simple (stop motion animated) ideas cause a hell lot of work ;)
Takafumi Tsuchiya alias takom™ lives and works in Tokyo. He mainly does video art, live video performances, AV performance collaborations and sometimes print and mixes recorded sources and handmade animation with generated material.
Beautiful motion, beautiful sound … just sit back, look, listen and enjoy!
decollage.tv has produced 3 so called AV Singles for London’s VJ label and content production studio Ne1co and the DJDownloads online platform. These AV Singles are aimed mainly at DJs that want to bring their own visuals and who use hardware, that takes DVDs. The clips can be downloaded via the DJDownloads page.
Behind the scenes of Puma “Lift”.
