The psychedelic experience allow one to relate differently to the world around us: it removes the differentiation between object and subject, and alters the perception of cause and effect. This is why I think an interface should be a major consideration in a psychedelic work of art; and the reson I picked the video above from Thor Johnson’s highly recommended Vimeo page.
These elastic tentacles reminded me of the game pod from David Cronenberg’s “Existenz”. A cyber-psychedelic masterpiece that will get a post of its own… soon!
Larry Carlson is a highly surreal visionary multi-media artist whose videos are among the most psychedelic I’ve seen in a long time. Mixing esoteric motives with science fiction themes and spooky music, Carlson draws one into a strangely appealing and very suggestive trip. Be sure to visit his site, probably one of the most psychedelic websites in existence…
A video feedback from Kyle Martin’s art. A journey through the nature of electro magnetic energy : Scycotropic spiral mind game theropy by kyle martin for fractalsex.
“Something arises. See if it can arise without a witness. It’s not happening to you… There is nothing you need to change. Stand on your own. Like phenomena come, so they go… Only don’t give any image to this witness. Examine thoughts’ credentials. Pay attention to the watcher. See if the seer itself has a shape… (Mooji)
Two things we won’t see exhausted soon: the couplings of psychedelic visuals and electronic music and the beauty emerging from the kaleidoscopic effect. Enjoy!
This is a video of my home made collection, I use to create organic mandalas from macro photos, then I give them life with visual feddback to bring the psychedelic effect !
Today I’d like to make the proposal that the aesthetics of “datamoshing” are kinda very psychedelic.
“Datamoshing” is the hip term for the effects achieved by removing keyframes from a videofile. It’s actually a very basic artisic technique in the tradion of randomness and the surfacing display of artistic means. What resurfaces here from the subconscious of the means of production are compression artefacts, objects born from the everyday algorithms of heavy data compression. The focus on compression artefacts sets them apart from other glitch aesthetics.
Not unlike a Rorschach test or psychedelic visuals these alien everyday compression artefacts are capable of expression. They have an emotional quality; they are anarchic smugglers on the border between conscious and subconscious.
The video above associates the compression artefacts with a certain melancholy. It’s an interesting construction of things passed since early objects of desire from 80s tv commercials and videogames are fused with the involuntary gestures of data compression from the internets early days of videostreaming. Just like a search of lost rad time with youtube.
Don’t miss those other two videos by eddie whelan! They are beautiful and no less rad executions of controlled randomness.
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