Rollin Leonard

Few days ago has taken place the closing of Trunks, Stems, & Heads a solo show by Rollin Leonard at Transfer Gallery where he presented some new great pieces. The photographic work of Rollin is highly focused on human bodies which frequently is his own body and portraits the source to be manipulated and distorted. This time Rollin has also used several models to continue the mesmerising animated and static work in which for some pieces he has translated pixels into cells of plexiglas by installing and distorting the bodies cell by cell, this also reflects how manual is his  experimental work process, it doesn't matter if it's physical or digital Rollin animates and works everything manually creating somehow conscious glitches. See more;

"Trunks, Stems, & Heads is a new body of work from Rollin Leonard. The focus of his first solo exhibition is the human form – organs, limbs and torsos are strewn about, arranged into impossible creatures, disfigured through collision and installed as highly aestheticized, meticulously polished piles of digitally mutilated forms. The work is shiny and fleshy, and offers a new take on portraiture that captures the shifting perception of the physical self in our contemporary digital moment.

Human faces, bodies, and familiar objects are frequent subjects for the artist – he is interested in our innate ability to recognize the objects despite scrambling or distorting the image. A face, a subject with high visual elasticity, is especially resistant to being obscured or lost in pattern. Just as you see faces in wood grain, clouds, and shadows, your mind easily knits human form together even when fragmented.

The artist’s photographic practice serves as the basis for the work. After capturing his subjects at precise angles, Leonard manipulates their bodies into highly composed and calculated compositions of looped moving image, digital collage and plexiglass installation pieces." - Transfer Gallery

Yes / No, 2013

animated loop, photographic video application

360° / 18 Lilia, 2013

36 second Yes / No, 2013, animated loop, photographic video

Cell Body (Panty), (Stocking) and (Joe) 2013 

730 1 by 1, 702 1 by 1 and 838 1 by 1 inch pieces respectively 

c-print face-mounted to 1/2 inch cell-cast Plexiglas

 

Installation view at Transfer Gallery_

Crash Kiss (Guthrie & Ellis), 2013

Crash Kiss (Jorge & Giselle), 2013

Arm Ball (Rollin), 2013

Arm Ball (Lilia), 2013

Cell Face (Rollin), 2013

41 2 by 2 inch pieces, c-print face-mounted to 1/2 inch cell-cast Plexiglas

Belly Chain on a Donut- Shaped Universe, 2013

tile texture for the Donuts_

The Wrong - New Digital Art Biennale

Protey Temen 

Finally last friday first November was launched a huge event on the Internet, an online art biennale called The Wrong including 30 "pavilions" and more than 300 artists. It has been created by David Quiles Guilló who previously has made other great projects such as ROJO and physical events like NOVA Festival. 

The 30 pavilions have been curated by different artists who have selected the participants and designed their own website to showcase the pieces, below into the post there are listed all the active pavilions so far, I recommend to take it easy, you will need more beer in your fridge for sure, there is so much great stuff presented in this online biennale using different digital formats.
I haven't finished yet to see all the works properly but I like the variety in general, also to know about new names and young artists and to see fresh and new work from people I admire. Regarding to the pavilions I like different qualities from each of them such as the curation, the design, aesthetic, presentation, the interaction and functionality with the environment, the social connection, feedback with visitors. 

The online biennale will be open till 31 December of this year, during this time it will be quite active and featuring new pavilions, don't miss anything by following all the the feedback of on its fb page here. There is also an unlimited pavilion called Homeostasis Lab which displays a selection of artwork submissions of artists and general public interested in participating in the event, another pavilions give this option too.

The Wrong has recruited several art spaces in cities around the world (listed below) as The Wrong Embassies, a temporary AFK project, where the physicalexperience of the digital biennale will take place with live performances, workshops and exhibitions. See more;

The Wrong Online Pavilions

And one day, boom: the pavilion of exploded reality! 

by Chiara Passa 

http://and-one-day-boom-the-pavilion-of-exploded-reality.com/

Another Post In The Wall 

by Eric Mast 

http://cargocollective.com/anotherpostinthewall

Beautiful Interfaces: The Deep in the Void 

by Miyö Van Stenis 

http://thedeepinthevoid.com/

Beyond Folklore, Olia's Chapel 

by Helena Acosta 

http://beyondfloklore-oliaschapel.produccionaleatoria.com/

Caóticamente Random 

by Johann Velit 

http://caoticamente-random.com/

Chamber 

by Sara Ludy 

http://www.c-h-a-m-b-e-r-s.com/

Conductivity-Resistivity 

by Giselle Zatonil 

http://www.conductivity-resistivity.com/

Exotic Forbidden Torrents 

by Peter Rahul 

http://www.exoticforbiddentorrents.com/

Flesh and Structure: The Biopolitical Commons 

by Erik H Rzepka 

http://x-o-x-o-x.com/press/fleshandstructure/index.html

Homeostasis Lab 

by Julia Borger Araña & Guilherme Brandão 

http://www.homeostasislab.com/

iMOCA 

by Michael Staniak 

http://www.imoca.biz/

pl41nt3xt 

by A.Bill Miller 

http://pl41nt3xt.com/

Plan 9 Channel 12 

by Yoshi Sodeoka 

http://www.plan9channel12.com/

Plastic yet still in-between 

by Andrew Benson 

http://plasticyetstillin-between.com/

Shadow Box 

by Rollin Leonard 

http://s-h-a-d-o-w-b-o-x.com/

Soci4lites 

by Emilie Gervais 

http://soci4lites.net/

Swimmingpool Pirahnas 

by Ellectra Radikal & Systaime Alias Michaël Borras

http://www.swimmingpoolpiranhas.com/

The Age of the World Picture 

by Cristina Ghetti 

http://www.theageoftheworldpicture.com/

The Eternal Internet Otherhood 

by Lorna Mills 

http://www.theeternalinternetotherhood.com/

Update Status 

by Emilio Gomariz 

http://updatestatus.net/

Western Digital 

by Rick Silva 

http://w-e-s-t-e-r-n-d-i-g-i-t-a-l.com/

Wilderness of Mirrors 

by Max Hattler 

http://www.intoawildernessofmirrors.com/

Wonder Cabinet of the Big Electric Cat 

by Play Damage 

http://wondercabinetofthebigelectriccat.com/

Young Internet Based Artists

by Anthony Antonellis

http://www.younginternetbasedartists.com/

The Wrong Embassies

Transfer in Brooklyn, Smart Objects in Los Angeles, Paradise Hill in Melbourne, Mutuo in Barcelona, Plutón in Valencia, TAL in Rio de Janeiro, Espacio Tumba in Buenos Aires, Hit The Dirt in Santiago de Chile, NNM Studio in Lima, LabLT in Montevideo, Un Lugar in Quito, Áncora in Valparaiso.

The Wrong

http://thewrong.org

Flat-Ripple by Nicolas Sassoon

Few weeks ago Nicolas Sassoon collaborated with Sidian Ersatz & Vanes for their 2013 collection. Nicolas was commissioned to make the design for a shirt and a website making reference to it, which is called Flat-Ripple.com. Above there is only a cropped version of the background he used for the piece, so beautiful!.

Emilio Gomariz

Some pieces made this year, Emilio Gomariz.
The GIF above is called T/001, is a pixel based generative transition between RGB colors, it's originally displayed through tile repetition filling the whole page as you can see here. See more;

RGB Landscapes, 2013

http://emiliogomariz.net/rgbl/

RGB Landscapes is a GIF series containing 52 pieces featuring horizontal RGB lines which are animated horizontally creating different moire effects.

1PXW, 2013

http://emiliogomariz.net/1pxw/

1PXW combines web and GIF allowing the user to create a horizontal landscape formed of 1px width animated GIFs using the menu to choose between the different (15) sets and to pop up them by moving the cursor over the little black surface, where Y = changes time interval and X = keeps same time

HR URL01, 2013

http://emiliogomariz.net/hrurl01/

HR URL01 creates an animated horizontal composition which works through vertical repetition of any image URL inserted as source then is possible to change the height of from 10px to 1px.

Random Rainbow, 2013

http://csh.bz/rr/

Random Rainbow is a collaborative piece between Emilio Gomariz & Chris Shier made for DigitArt exhibition curated by BRIGHT at Centre Pompidou. The piece was featured through Pompidou's internal WIFI connection at Studio 13/16 during the show (June 29 - August 5), now the piece is already online at http://csh.bz/rr/, it has different behavior on mobile devices as it allows the multitouch feature, as you can see in the video below. 

ii URL02. 2013

http://emiliogomariz.net/iiurl02/

ii URL02 works through interactive (1px height) horizontal distortion, the user can insert any image URL such as GIF, JPEG or PNG, play with and share the customized URL as the example below would be http://emiliogomariz.net/iiurl02/?url=http://computersclub.org/draw/collection/CC_1004.png . A piece finished because of some great help from Chris Shier too.

3dGif by Vince Mckelvie

Vince Mckelvie made a new project called 3dGif, consisting in a webGL based website where it's possible to submit an image, not only are allowed animated GIFs but static formats such as JPEG and PNG to texturize a three-dimensional animated environment where there is an organic form moving into a rotating cube, this example shows pretty well the space of. The form in the centre follows a similar animated structure than some GIFs created by Vince. 3dGif is another great project where the collaboration of Tim Baker is present. See more;

Preferable use Chrome and/or Firefox

Jasper Elings

Damn! the work of Jasper Elings wasn't published directly here despite I'm a huge fan of him from long time ago. I'm sure you already know some of his pieces or at least have seen something while surfing the internet as Jasper's work has been highly viral. His simple but great concepts are usually based on the internet culture as you can see on the selection of pieces into the post which probably were created 2 years ago. Jasper is lately quite focused on 3D animation as I saw what he is sharing on fb but of course continuing with the same sense of humor than his previous works and animated gifs which some of them have thousand of notes, have a look to his tumblr. See more; 

UntitledLandscapes.jpg

http://www.jasperelings.info/media/mountain-pictures-level-adobe

Sharing a beautiful sunset

http://www.jasperelings.info/video-director/share-sun-google

Picturebook without pictures

http://www.jasperelings.info/book/pictures-print-page

It was a great opening

http://www.jasperelings.info/photos/delete-content-opening

Flashings in the mirror

http://www.jasperelings.info/video/flash-player-camera

Cocksuckers from Outer Space

http://www.jasperelings.info/photo/cover-girls-sex-alien

Animated Gifs

http://jasper-elings.tumblr.com/

ANI GIF 2.3 ■ ARXITEKTON by Małgosia Woźnica

ANI GIF presents today the show 2.3 ■ ARXITEKTON by Małgosia Woźnica who has used a geometric architecture to build several random animated texturized blocks over a monochromatic grid using two different perspectives, I recomend to see all the pieces at ANI GIF as it makes more sense seeing the whole interface. See more;

Nicolas Boillot

Loops of Marvel vs Capcom , 2013

Nicolas Boillot is highly inspired and uses as a main visual source several video games to create his abstract and chaotic loop animations. From the two animated pieces here in the post, the gif above "Loops of Marvel vs Capcom" and the video into the post "Geometry Wars", Nicolas Boillot extract and accumulate only the moving parts, on a loop of 25 images/frames. As he told us; he tries to gather, by this process, a selection of what our eyes undergo when we play the video games. Movements are like "a candy" for our eyes and brain, and by these accumulation, confrontation, he tries to unveil in an empirical way what game designer conceives to keep us hooked. See more;

You can see more of his mesmerizing animated loops working through gif in this previous post and check out more of his loops at this ongoing series, here.

Fighhhht !!, 2013

Geometry Wars, 2012