prosthetic knowledge
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Augenzeichnungen (Eye Drawings)
Created by German artist Jochem Hendricks, a project started in 1992, where the artist would wear a helmet with eye-tracking technology, recording the eye movements and printing the results - from Media Art Net:
Eye-drawings, «Augenzeichnungen», are drawings done directly with the eyes, without the slightest interference of the hands - the organ of perception being turned into the organ of expression. By means of technical aids (infrared-, video-, and computer- techniques) human eye movements are traced and digitized during the visual process of looking at something, so as to be able to do an ink-jet print out of these movements eventually. The body of works called Eye-drawings not only investigates the process of looking at everyday objects in the form of photographs or real three dimensional items, but primarily circles around issues of research and the visualization of abstract motives and processes e.g., time, reading, writing, drawing, light, and afterimage, culminating in the denial of the gaze: nothingness - the invisible is made visible by means of a trace.
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Machina by Claudia Hart
Framed digital art piece is a 3D animation of a sleeping female nude subject in the classical pose of Venus / Odalisque - a two minute example of the twenty minute work:
“Machina” (2008) by Claudia Hart from bitforms gallery on Vimeo.
“Machina” is a 3D animation portraying the compressed time and space of painting, shows a dreaming character whose slow, drowsy movements articulate all of the minutia of a single moment. “Machina” uses the most advanced techniques of virtual reality simulation, and a series of animations that result in a representation that is sensual and organic. Occasionally, Machina opens her eyes to gaze at the viewer, in a moment of transformation, allowing the object of our gaze to subject us to hers. Based loosely on works such as Titian′s Venus and paintings by the Baroque artist Peter Paul Rubens, “Machina” is meant to introduce sensuality into the virtual realm by employing an idea of beauty as defined by a woman.
More about the artist’s work at Bitforms Gallery here
Related - earlier this week I discovered a similar (though glitchier) idea in Georgie Roxby Smith’s piece “Uncompossed” [link]
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Poemotion by Takahiro Kurashima
Publication featuring impressive abstract scanimations:
More Here (Japanese)
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Occupy The Hood
The growth of a community campaign that joins the Occupy Wall Street protests, representing minorities. It started as a twitter profile (@OccupyTheHood), and grew from there.
From a statement on their Facebook page:
About:
It is the Mission of Occupy The Hood (in solidarity with Occupy Wall St) to get POC more involved in the Occupy Movement
Description:
Occupy The Hood stands in Solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street
movement… It is imperative that the African American voice is heard
at this moment! We must not be forgotten as the world progresses to the next economical stage. We can all agree that the voices in our
communities are especially needed in this humanitarian struggle. We
are our future and we posses the energy needed to push the occupy
movement to the next phase.More at their Facebook Page
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2Dなのに飛び出す！ 3D環境ゼロでつくる3D写真のつくりかた via proto-jp / pinto / nagas
This is a first for me - 3D ASCII Art
(via proto-jp)
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Downloadable interactive app which reads your webcam input, and converts movement into colourful polygons.
Above is an example - it really starts to demonstrates what it does around 30 seconds in.
[originally posted by ideas are awesome, but I used a different video]
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By Pinrui Pinzhi (via neochaEDGE) - click on image for more
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GPS Dog Drawings by Jeremy Wood
Tracking the movements of dogs with GPS and image stabilization.
Exhibition Video - Filmed and animated in 2006 by Hugh Pryor and Jeremy Wood.
Starring Boris and Jemma
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Body Cloud
A project that utilises motion capture to create sculptural forms.
More details here at datavisualization.ch, with more images and a video.
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How to move the brain with a Japanese line drawing via New Scientist
IN THE YouTube age it is easy to forget that artists rely on clever tricks to create a sense of motion in still images. Now brain scans show why one method of creating “implicit motion”, used by an 18th-century Japanese artist, works so well.
While admiring line drawings by Hokusai Katsushika, psychophysicist Naoyuki Osaka of Kyoto University, Japan, was struck by the vivid motion they convey. Instead of using blur to suggest movement, as much modern art has done since the advent of photography, Katsushika created motion by drawing bodies in highly unstable positions (see picture). This is thought to work because the brain “fills in” the effects of gravity pulling the bodies down.
Full article here (with slideshow)
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On the Passage of a few People through a Rather Brief Moment in Time: The Situationist International 1956-1972 (via UBUWEB)
A video documentary combining exhibition footage of the Situationist International exhibitions with film footage of the 1968 Paris student uprising, and graffiti and slogans based on the ideas of Guy Debord (one of the foremost spokesmen of the Situationist International movement). Also includes commentary by leading art critics Greil Marcus, Thomas Levine, and artists Malcolm Mac Laren and Jamie Reid. Branka Bogdanov, Director and producer.
NTSC-VHS 22 min. 1989A downloadable .avi version, also from UBUWEB, is also available
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Flame - Impressive experimental online drawing tool
Not just flame effects as seen above, but many dynamic vector-esque illustrative effects are possible:
Flame is a painting program, it belongs to my ‘I am Artist’ experimental project. I think with tools which inspires you, everybody can be an artist. You can try it here, change different brush settings and paint your own flame paintings. When you change background from black to white, palette changes from additive to substactive and the feeling of the painting is very different. It’s not easy to explain all brush parameters, so I leave this for your experimentation.
With a new update Flame saves super hires pictures - 1680x1050! -
The Q Train to Manhattan by RageHaus
Subway train zoetrope / Masstransiscope:
This was an animation we saw while riding the subway. I want to say we saw it while riding the Q train going into Manhattan. Unfortunately the middle is a little slow because the train was slowing down for a moment, but the second part is at optimal speed. We saw many things while riding the subway but this was a treat! If anyone has the full animation, please drop us a line. We’d love to see the full animation from start to finish.
Music supplied by Oscar “Buddy” Woods “Don’t Sell it, Don’t Give It Away” -
Movement (via VANDER YACHT / illillill)
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“The Kinetic Sculpture is a metaphorical translation of the process of form-finding in art and design. 714 metal spheres, hanging from thin steel wires attached to individually-controlled stepper motors and covering the area of six square meters, animate a seven minute long mechatronic narrative. In the beginning, moving chaotically, then evolving to several competing forms that eventually resolve to the finished object, the Kinetic Sculpture creates an artistic visualisation of the process of form-finding in different variations.”
via www.artcom.de
