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“Mutations”-Lillian F. Schwartz, 1973

7 Oct

Wow! Very meditative and interesting early computer generated animation from Lillian Schwartz. Below is text from her website:
Lillian Schwartz, resident artist and consultant at Bell Laboratories (New Jersey), 1969-2002. During the 70s and 80s Schwartz developed a catalogue of visionary techniques for the use of the computer system by artists. Her formal explorations in abstract animation involved the marriage of film, computers and music in collaboration with such luminaries as computer musicians Jean-Claude Risset, Max Mathews, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Milton Babbit, and Richard Moore. Schwartz’s films have been shown and won awards at the Venice Biennale, Zagreb, Cannes, The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and nominated and received Emmy nominations and awards.
Her work has been exhibited at, and is owned by, The Museum of Modern Art (New York), The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), The Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), The Moderna Museet (Stockholm), Centre Beauborg (Paris), Stedlijk Museum of Art (Amsterdam), and the Grand Palais Museum (Paris). Lumen has collaborated with Lillian Schwartz and curator Gregory Kurcewicz to compile a touring package of these important works. “A Beautiful Virus Inside the Machine” features animations restored to video. “The Artist and the Computer”, 1976, 10 mins is a documentary about her work. Produced by Larry Keating for AT&T, “The Artist and the Computer is an excellent introductory informational film that dispels some of the ‘mystery’ of computer-art technology, as it clarifies the necessary human input of integrity, artistic sensibilities, and aesthetics. Ms. Schwartz’s voice over narration explains what she hoped to accomplish in the excerpts from a number of her films and gives insight into the artist’s problems and decisions.” – John Canemaker 
“Lillian F. Schwartz.” Lillian F Schwartz. N.p., n.d. Web. retrieved 06 Oct. 2016.

MORPHA UTILA! Ambassador to the Machine Planet!

27 Sep

Directed by Lale Westvind.

Lale’s work previously featured: https://dailypsychedelicvideo.com/2015/04/14/lightning-bolt-the-metal-east/

Nebula (excerpt)-Hilary Harp and Suzie Silver

16 Sep

From the Vimeo description:

Hilary Harp + Suzie Silver (2007)
Long-time fans of camp in general, and science fiction in particular, we set out to create a project that explores the mutual influences which flow between abstract art, and “space age” visual culture. Our sources included Thomas Wilfred’s Clavilux color organs as well as experimental abstract filmmakers such as Mary Ellen Bute, Jordan Belsen and James and John Whitney. We were also inspired by liquid light shows, the marvelous sightings of the Hubble Space Telescope, American sculptures of the 1930’s and 1940’s, and the visual culture of the space age. From these we sought to create an experience of sensuous immersion that could function as a portal from the mundane to the infinite. The glass sculptures inspired by “asteroid” forms in sci-fi illustrations, function on the one hand as abstract sculptures, and on the other hand as subjects for stop-motion animation used in the digitally manipulated video. Animations were also created from ephemeral sculptures made of light-loving craft materials such as glitter, pipe-cleaners, iridescent fabric and tulle. These animations were digitally manipulated and combined with purely digitally generated abstractions to create the final video.

Harp + Silver website

Bruce Conner: Looking for Mushrooms (1967)

6 Sep

In 1962, Bruce Conner left San Francisco and moved to Mexico, apparently intending to “wait out the impending nuclear holocaust”. He spent about a year in Mexico before running out of cash and patience, and returning to the United States. During his year in Mexico, Conner hosted psychedelic guru Timothy Leary, who he had met on an earlier visit to New York. Conner and Leary occupied themselves with mushroom hunts in the Mexican countryside. It’s not clear whether their hunts were successful. But Conner’s staccato home-movies of their walks – combined with movies of previous mushroom hunts in San Francisco – became his film Looking for Mushrooms. The film rushes through the rustic landscape of rural Mexico, flitting past houses and through a crumbling graveyard.
Conner cut Looking for Mushrooms down to 100 feet in 1965 in order to fit it into an endless-loop cartridge for continuous projection. In 1967 he added a soundtrack by The Beatles (“Tomorrow Never Knows”).

Okuda “Kaos Temple”

27 Aug

Spanish graffiti artist Okuda turns an old church into a colorful “Kaos Temple” in this stunning Red Bull commercial.

Claudia Mate: Inside Out

17 Jun

Claudia Mate is a digital artist making some really cool stuff. Check out her website:

http://www.claudiamate.com/

The Path Found

7 Jun

Warren Lamb presents us with a dream initiation.

Numen Light Membrane

1 Jun

Three out of six surfaces of the cube are made of flexible membrane (foil mirror) with air tank and a compressor connected to it and the other three mirrors are semi transparent spy-glass. By inflating or deflating the air tank, the membrane turns convex or concave, deforming the reflections.

Hyper-Reality by Keiichi Matsuda

31 May

This is a pretty accurate depiction of what will eventually happen through augmented reality. The film got funded on Kickstarter and was shot on location in Medellín, Colombia. Official site: http://hyper-reality.co/

Frieze Frame – 1991

30 May

39 paintings from the Frans Hals museum in Haarlem, Holland come to life in this 1991 video by Gerrit van Dijk.