Again, back to my favorite subject: technology and art!
I’m a long time fan of animation (and I’m talking about Disney ok?). So I’m preparing a new blog post on the subject “experimental animation”.

When collecting my material, I found a really interesting technique applied to video: time displacement. Time displacement is based on a more known technique called “slit scan”.

Image by Andrew Davidhazy

This technique derived from photography was adapted to movie for Stanley Kubrick “2001 Space Odyssey”.

If you are interested I recommend this following website, dedicated to this particular photography technique. Golan Levin and Collaborators

Following the post of Marina promoting an event “music meets art”, I think it’s quite interesting to make some research in this area. And, I found a lot!

The combination of music and visual arts is well known. In many Universities, art students are painting emotions when listening to music.

Many visual artists produced disc covers for rock band: we can point Roger Dean produced amazing covers for the group Yes, H.R Giger and band like Emerson Lake and Palmer (ELP) or Death Kennedy (notably a painting for the album Frankenchrist pushed he band to trial for distributing harmful matter to minors) and many more. 

One of my favorite cooperation between a visual artist and a musician was the artworks realized by Tom Phillips for the album “Another Green World” from Brian Eno released on November 1975. Tom realized his paintings based on the songs in the album. The original album was distributed in a limited edition and included Tom’s pictures. (And I have it!!!). By the way, the album itself is considered has a master piece of Brian Eno.

To go back to my favorite subject “technology meets art”, I have explored the computer design capabilities and related to… music indeed.
Here is my finding. Enjoy!

Morphing technology is well know and intensively used in movie production. The smooth transition between different images creates impressive effects.

t’s curious to know that morphing was introduced in his first modern aspects for a musical video clip of the famous 10cc band in early 1985. Check it on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYbr7IUNIJQ

Well, this was really early morphing technique indeed. 

What was much more than surprising to me is the extremely rare usage of the technology in art works

It took me sometimes to find innovative and creative usage of the morphing and I want to share with you my favorite discovery: watch it and enjoy (don’t forget to open your loudspeakers)

Be in touch soon

To learn more about morphing see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphing

Back to my favorite topic: technology meets art. I know: long time without posting. But this time I found a really interesting artwork realized by Jordan C Greenhalgh.

His project is really amazing: create a motion picture based only on a succession of Polaroid shots. The author describes his project: 

“An experiment to exploit the single frames that make up an animated film and explore the emotions of the creative process. Created with 987 polaroids and no computer composting.” 

987 polaroids and no computers… Amazing: watch this!

SO everybody sing with me:

Yes, I know it's not the classical HAPPY BIRTHDAY but who cares!

In the jungle HA HIIIIIIII

And don't forget to comment below!

The weekly topic of “Technology meets art” is quite… unusual. Ferrofluid technology is extremely advanced: nanoscale ferromagnetics in synthetic oil controlled by magnetic field.

Ok, I stop here. Just take the time to look to the video….

The installation "Morpho Towers -- Two Standing Spirals" (2007) was developed by the Japanese artist Sachiko Kodama in her project on “dynamic movement of the fluid”.

This project is considered as one of the most innovative “digital art” experimentation. She received several awards.

Sachiko Kodama is currently an associate professor at University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo.

From my own perspective, new technologies, such as Ferrofluids,, give to the digital art a new dimension and open unlimited doors to creativity and beauty.

I will continue to keep you in touch on what I discover in this fabulous space “technology meets art”.

That’s all for this week folks! Bye..

The term “Fractal” was coined by Benoit Mandelbrot (a French mathematician) in 1975 when he was working since 1952 at the IBM research center.

Mandelbrot is not the only mathematician having worked in specific fields of Chaos Theory, Dynamic System and Fractal Geometry.

 
For instance, Iterated functions in the complex plane were investigated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Henri Poincaré, Felix Klein, Pierre Fatou and Gaston Julia.

However, without the aid of modern computer graphics, they lacked the means to visualize the beauty of many of the objects that they had discovered. 

 It is quite unusual that simple mathematic functions visualized using computer programs generates so incredible images as demonstrated in the following movie, knowing that the mathematical formula in itself is as simple as that:

x_n+1 = x_n² + c (where x is in the Complex Set)

 Fractals and Arts

Fractal patterns have been found in the paintings of American artist Jackson Pollock. While Pollock's paintings appear to be composed of chaotic dripping and splattering, computer analysis has found fractal patterns in his work.see: Fractal expressionism

Fractals are also prevalent in African art and architecture. Circular houses appear in circles of circles, rectangular houses in rectangles of rectangles, and so on. Such scaling patterns can also be found in African textiles, sculpture, and even cornrow hairstyles TO LEARN MORE: RECOMMENDED VIDEO

To conclude as usual: Science meets technology meets art.
Voila.

Reference: wikipedia.org

“A high speed camera is a device used for recording slow-motion playback films, or used for scientific study of transient phenomena. A normal motion picture is filmed and played back at 24 frames per seconds, high speed cameras can film up to 250,000 frames per second.” (wikipedia)

What’s appears to us as a quite familiar experience transforms thru the prisms of a high speed camera to a totally new vision. 

Indeed, this technology is not a traditional tool for an artist, but as an artist transforms our own vision of the world, the technology transforms a simple experience as the water balloon in an artwork.

After reading the article “The digital tools for the Artists”, I started exploring what other types of art was relying on technology. I found on YouTube this clip:

First question indeed, is this really art?

My response: definitively. Transient and ephemera, immaterial. Technology here is helping the artist in a simple way: large device and projection system. Again, the use of a simple technology in the hand of an artist becomes a powerful tool of expression.

I will continue to look around and find other technology that artists use to create new way of expressions.