Alex Peverett

I'm quite excited after contacting Alex Peverett to ask him about one of his latest works he made. It is a beautiful video for Poborsk, just for the track called The Nest. Alex uses different ways to create his work, both digital and analog since he started early 70's to experiment with this media. His abstract landscapes and compositions are made of many generative patterns colored as gradients, everything seems to be a careful and organized digital chaos. So I asked him the favor to introduce us to his work, to know more about which tecnologies he uses and how he does. Really interesting. See more;


"My process for creating my video works is analogous to the way in which I produce electronic & computer music, and I have been active in pursuing experiments in both interests for several decades now. Technically my studio is based around an Apple Macintosh computer but I utilise analog and digital hardware from the early 1970s to present day. For my visual work I combine Apple, Sinclair, Commodore, Atari and DOS based personal micro-computers with my expanded Rev5 Fairlight Computer Video Instrument and several other select pieces of video processing hardware.

Initially I program procedural visual patterns and gradients as a foundation for each work using nay combination of BASIC, Processing, Max/MSP/Jitter or whatever other generative pattern generating software I am currently into using. I produce and combine several versions of this initial pattern with raster graphic images, hand drawn via mouse, using software drawing tools.

This material is then treated in a way that is similar way to the way a modular synthesizer would be used and processed and re-processed in a variety of ways through different CRT monitors, cameras, prism sets, VHS decks, video hardware, frame grabbers and editing packages to produce material to edit into the final work.

In relation to using equipment from different decades I don't see my approach as either retro, modernist or futuristic, I use the carefully selected and collected hardware & software which I am most into. The tools that provide the visual textures and visual qualities that connect with me on the deepest level and also have an immediate, comfortable and inspiring physical presence and level of human user interface that is particular to my process, and which I am happy to spend many hours each day using." - Alex Peverett for Triangulation Blog.

The images below are some of his impressive computer graphic paintings made for Computers Club, as he is member of the well known digital collective. Click images to enlarge but I recommend to see their original size at Computers Club, here.

"Spa", 2012

"D.P.4.C.C.14.12.2011", 2011

"ten", 2011

"Ri", 2010

Simone Giordano

The oil paintings by Simone Giordano are highly inspired by the digital field and electronic devices. Simone works focused on this digital aesthetic recreating some ones from the digital interfaces such as the transparent background and the selection tool both from Photoshop, texts zoom in, pixelate images and even his painting present some great glitches and errors.

"Ideas, images that evolve and out from my laptop, grainy, fragmented, transformed in a graphic editing program and then finally transferred to canvas; belong to my memory, found them recognized in that extension of our own consciousness, but which 'collective well' that is 'the network, objects that acquire a new value in my representations, the one of medium between us and our deeper self, the root on which to build a just ethical, technological develop consciousness on which our the future. '' - Simone Giordano. See more;

Check out the dimensions of each painting on Sime's site. All of them are oil painting on canvas.

Lumenoise by Niklas Roy

Lumenoise is the latest project developed by Niklas Roy during his stay in La Gaîté Lyrique in Paris. Niklas worked on a light pen which turns any CRT-TV into an audiovisual synthesizer. It paints abstract geometric patterns and sounds directly onto the screen. It is a playful and performative device, as anything that you do will cause an instantaneous reflection in the gadget’s sonic and visual output. See more;

Unlike modern flat TV’s, old school CRT’s draw the image line by line onto their phosphorescent screen. A photo transistor, placed on a tube TV’s surface, can recognize when the part of the image is drawn underneath it. If this photo transistor is connected with a micro controller which generates the video signal, the controller can localize the exact position of the photo transistor on the screen. That’s the whole trick. This image (click here to see it) shows an animation which illustrates the process how the electron beam inside a CRT draws an image.

You can read more about the process and download everything to make one of these light pens here. The following video + screenshots show how it works: