These works by Shawn Knol are constantly transgressing the border between pure natural marvel and digital access until something silently emerges that can not be reduced to neither naturalism nor digitalism.
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Miwa Matreyek’s glorious visions
1 Dec
As a V-jay and a geek, I found the content of this video psychedelic, future is now !
– Using animation, projections and her own moving shadow, Miwa Matreyek performs a gorgeous, meditative piece about inner and outer discovery. Take a quiet 10 minutes and dive in. With music from Anna Oxygen, Mirah, Caroline Lufkin and Mileece.
About Miwa Matreyek
Miwa Matreyek creates performances where real shapes and virtual images trade places, amid layers of animation, video and live bodies. Full bio and more links
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Psychedelic Animation by Harvey Benschoter
28 NovWell, I am speachless. Check out the artist’s page for better quality versions and even more mind bending animations [the better versions are now embedded here].
Cosmic Joker // Ultimaya // Travel in illusion
17 Nov
As I follow paths toward delayed mirror of feedback phenomena, then primordial reflection of the divine essence is approached, and absence of delay is revealed.
Namely the great question of pure reality is put straightforward: the formless, unthinkable, untouchable, religiousness but beyond religion.
In the subtle movement of the self-created pixels gathering taking place on the screen, we recognize ancestral, primitive as well as future shapes knotted within eternal rebirth of archetypal human being…
Unless I is dreaming.
But who owns the dream?
who is dreaming ? I or eye ?
– I thought I was Created…
The Animated Avadhuta // ULTIMAYA
27 Oct
Salutations to consciousness from consciousness.
Here is an Unmoving travel through dimensions of perception. The elements of language are segments of the mind; can they be the structure of the world? On the fractal fresco of phenomena, the variety of all the symbols of oneness sprout and come to life.
The artwork’s basis is one 20 foot long hand drawing that took one year completing. Its backbone is the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet, which are spread like seeds of meaning among the infinite canvas of random facts. Living beings are linked by secret strands of DNA. This Drawing of Babel, that some call the Universe, is called different names, like God itself: the Psychotorah, The ABC of the Absolute, Noah’s Archetype…
The movie shows one possible wandering through its maze.
The text is an ancient sanskrit advaita vedanta wisdom, which has been almost unknown even in India for centuries. Its title means: the song of the naked one, the sage that got rid of ideas and identification and sings out of bliss.
Mooji is a contemporary spiritual teacher who has a large number of videos available on youtube, bringing to life this ancient wisdom with stunning clarity.
It is like an act of love defying time to merge After Effects and Devanagari, the latest technology and the earliest recorded outbursts of insight into the depths of reality. This is as far as words may come to give a hint of the absolute…
The musicians are my music teachers, having a very high level in Hindustani music and an inner understanding of it.
Text by Sri Dattatreya
Translation by Swami Abhayananda
Reading by Mooji
Animation by Zottomerk
Artwork, Recording & Audio Mix by Nataraaj (Ultimaya)
Vocals by Shree Mariko, disciple of Pt Ritwik Sanyal
web.me.com/norishree
Flute by Suryaneel Lauth, disciple of Pt Hariprasad Chaurasia
http://www.myspace.com/suryaneel
Om namah shivaya
Jimmy Joe Roche
24 OctA few recent works revisiting psychedelic tropes by visual artist Jimmy Joe Roche.
Digital Psychedelia by Takeshi Murata
17 OctAll of these beautiful animations are works of digital media artist Takeshi Murata. I think they express a remarkably pure psychedelic vision and joy in the realm of the digital. Especially the way they develop a sense of space and time and make us look at movement links the digital with the psychedelic.
Pink Floyd – The Wall
13 OctEmpty Spaces as an example:
The complete movie:
Pink Floyd’s the Wall is arguably one of the most intriguing and imaginative albums in the history of rock music. Since its release in 1979, and the subsequent movie of 1982, the Wall has become synonymous with, if not the very definition of, the term “concept album.” Aureally explosive on record and visually explosive on the screen, the Wall traces the life of the fictional protagoinst, Pink Floyd, from his boyhood days in war-torn England to his self-imposed isolation as a world-renownedrock star, leading to a climax that is as questionably cathartic as it is destructive.
More Psychedelic Datamoshing
10 OctI have posted psychedelic datamoshing clips on this blog before. Here are a few more pretty examples of compression artefacts gone trippy.
The Daily Psychedelic Video 