Archive | 2015

Google Artificial Neural Networks – A collection

19 Oct

A few months ago the internet was raging about the new psychedelic videos released by Google. Apparently, when you take Google’s artificial neural networks (ANN) which recognize patterns in images and cause them to reiterate in loops, highly psychedelic patterns emerge, which caused many to ponder the ways in which these ANN’s can teach us about the psychedelic nature of reality and our consciousness. While Samy has already dedicated a great post to this issue,  it seems like a good time for a retrospective of the Google ANN phenomena. So here are some of those psychedelic mind boggling courtesy of Google’s Deep Dream algorithm.

First some explanation of how these images are created:

 

A 38 minute slideshow of images as seen by Google Deep Dream

Inside an artificial brain

A grocery trip, coursey of Pouff

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No Brain

17 Oct

There are many flavors of psychedelia, and one–I think–is thoughtlessness. In these videos, there’s not too much to contemplate, but I’d say each is a pleasure to watch. Though I can’t recall the source, a few simple words from an album review still stick with me years and years later, “Give your brain the night off.” This weekend I provide you with three samples of 3D animation to do just that.

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Boogodobiegodongo by Peter Millard

17 Oct

This gem was suggested by my friend, animator Amy Lockhart. Amy has been featured on the DPV blog a couple of times in the past with “Miss Edmonton Teenburger 1983” and “Walk for Walk”

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STREAM – Explore The Unseen – Roman de Guili

16 Oct

Roman de Guili stages tiny universes which exist for miniscule periods of time on a glass plate, he then augments them and exposes the rich life within these spaces, invisible to the naked eye. 70 hours of shooting to create “an organic, non-generated character, establishing a truly reliable cosmos.” No color corrections, no composition, no CGI. Nothing but the breathtaking beauty which naturally emerges from the mixture of water, oil and color.

Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared 5

15 Oct

By: Becky and Joe

Tesela Interactive Paper Sculpture

14 Oct

This interactive environment is based on geometry exploration, and how using this path can disrupt our perception.
Graphical patterns, visual illusions, dynamic geometry tesselations are algorithmically generated in realtime by the system with the help of the observer.
103 paper pyramids as a canvas to play with, changing the shape constantly like in an illusory metamorphic dream.

Sculpture Design, Grasshopper
3D Projection Mapping, Interactive environment, VVVV

Camera, Video Footage & Support, Pablo Geso.
Music, Tupperwear, Catanga.

Arístides García (Lasal) Krake Festival, Berlin, August 2015

Thanks (Coco) for sharing this

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irrintzi

13 Oct

Irrintzina is a kind of basque festive yell, initially used by witches and shepherds.
By Jon Boutin.

Purusha – Chih-han Lin (Hannah)

12 Oct

“Chih Han (Hannah) Lin’s Purusha (2015) is a 2.5D animation about a biomorphic character of the same name, who wishes to be beautiful. She lives in a world with other creatures whose elaborate patterns she envies and seeks to steal for her own use. Purusha’s use of experimental colors and patterns in a watercolor-like painting style evokes a mysterious imaginary world that conveys the important message of loving oneself as one is.”

“A Message” by Kelela

11 Oct

The video for “A Message” from Kelela’s recent Hallucinogen EP builds up a lot of quiet tension before it releases it into the psychedelic outburst of the finale.

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Ships in Distress in a Datastorm

10 Oct

 

This is an ‘Abstract Compressionist’ video painting from Belgian video artist Jeroen Cluckers. A datamoshed remix of Peter Monamy’s painting ‘Ships in Distress in a Storm’.

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