generate leads 1: November 2013

Friday, November 29, 2013

Emilio Vavarella

While Google tries to built a perfect world through its services Google Earth and Street View they are still one of the great sources to get every kind of glitches. Emilio Vavarella has discovered hundred of these errors and spent a lot of time traveling on street view mode to create The Google Trilogy, three different projects using the same tool.

"The series of 100 digital photos called Report a Problem is the first part of the project, it is about the relationship between humans, power and technological errors. “Report a Problem” is the message that appears at the bottom of the Google Street View screen, which allows viewers to report a problem during the viewing of the place they are virtually visiting: missing censorship, wrong colors, random appearances. I traveled on Google Street View photographing all the “wrong landscapes” I encountered before others could report the problems and prompt the company to adjust the images. Common landscapes are transformed by Google’s unexpected technical errors into something new." - Emilio Vavarella. See more;

In this post are published some pictures from Report a Problem, see the entire series here and the other 2 pieces from the trilogy called Michele’s Story and The Driver and the Cameras here.

DAYDREAM by NONOTAK STUDIO

"DAYDREAM by Nonotak Studio is an audiovisual installation that generates space distortions. Relationship between space and time, accelerations, contractions, shifts and metamorphosis have been the lexical field of the project. This installation aimed at establishing a physical connection between the virtual space and the real space, blurring the limits and submerging the audience into a short detachment from reality. Lights generate abstract spaces while sounds define the echoes of virtual spaces. Daydream is an invitation to contemplation. The frontality of the installation leads the visitors to a passive position."

This project reminds me of some other installations by Kit Webster who also has been exploring projected light and visuals through space using different layers of geometric structures. But there is something fascinating in DAYDREAM too, I like the interactivity with the user and the light and the feedback the shadow leaves on the layers behind of, it remind me of the feeling while performing with video feedback, of course here there's not delay but there is also an interesting project called X-RAY TRAIN by Shimurabros where they got delay projecting over a frontal layered straight structure, have a look here. See more;

Enda O'Donoghue

Glad to see a great update of Enda O'Donoghue's work, which continues capturing through oil paintings the glitched random photographs he finds on the internet featuring different kind of errors. If you didn't know about his precise work, I recommend to read and interview we did 3 years ago about his process painting and more, see here.

Enda O'Donoghue opens today a new solo show at Klettgau Galerie which will be running till next 9 March 2014. See more;

Some of the paintings below also have been made using acrylic and oil paints, to see more information, titles, dimensions and large details of each painting featured here, check out his website.

Onion Skin by Olivier Ratsi

"Onion Skin is a new immersive installation by Olivier Ratsi, an artist on the AntiVJ visual label. The first stage in the Echolyse project, which will give birth to several variations around the same concept, Onion Skin is made up of a physical dimension - a module of two walls, positioned at right angles - augmented by a projection and a 5.1 sound broadcast.

Onion Skin is a graphical work about the re-composition of time and space through a game of perspectives, both of the exhibition space itself and that of the projection canvas. Built around a progressive structure, made up of 4 parts lasting 14 minutes in total, the piece plays on the principle of repetition and scale to create a physical and hypnotic experience that opens doors onto the hidden and untouchable.

The whole experience of the installation is based on a very specific point of view. A precise position from which a new dimension is revealed to the audience by anamorphosis. The simple geometric elements ("peelings") that seemed to be flat at first suddenly start delimiting a new space. The illusion of a new dimension within the installation slowly appears as the onion skins seem to be leaving their physical surface behind." - AntiVJ. See more;

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

All jQuery effects by Sebastian Schmieg

As beautiful as simple, All jQuery effects using the settings from the examples at jquery.com, one after another. Made by Sebastian Schmieg in 2012. See more;

All jQuery effects > http://sebastianschmieg.com/alljqueryeffects

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

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