Undervolt & Co

Still from Dazzling Odysseys: The Electric Mind by Johnny Woods

Undervolt & Co is a new experimental video label founded by Yoshi Sodeoka, only saying this it already sounds promising, but Johnny Woods and Nicholas O’Brien joined the team as director and senior editor respectively, something like that had to happen someday and it's just here. Have a look to the website and check out how they have launched the label > there are six great titles from artists such  as Jennifer Juniper Stratford, Spectral Net (Birch Cooper, Brenna Murphy, Sabrina Ratté and Roger Tellier-Craig), Cristopher Cichocki, Jimmy Joe Roche and Yoshi Sodeoka and Johnny Woods are also part of the artist line up. Each title has different pieces or it depends how the artists have decided to do it, but you will get an average of 20 min title for $5 each! Into the post you can see one minute trailer from each title which gives you an idea about how are them, but to be honest 1 min is nothing compared to what can happen in video from 15 min to for example one hour that it's the one by Johnny, it's a great opportunity to buy and download some great video art that you won't find online as the label keeps the exclusivity of. See more;

Read more about Undervolt & Co, how it was created, aesthetics featured and more in an interview with Yoshi Sodeoka by Benoit Palop here. FAQ about  here.

Lost In Linear Valley: Jennifer Juniper Stratford

Spectral Sequences Vol. 1: Spectral Net

Liquid Static: Cristopher Cichocki

Distortion III: Yoshihide Sodeoka

Greetings From Baltimore: Jimmy Joe Roche

Dazzling Odysseys: The Electric Mind- Johnny Woods

www.undervolt.co

Video Death by Henry Driver

Video Death by Henry Driver_

"The documentation of a monitor as it deteriorates and loses all grounding. Forced to repeatedly display footage of its own decay, it slips into insanity. Confronted with mortality and the falseness of eternity, it self-destructs. Unable to be human and create an illusion of immortality or stability. It is consumed." - Henry Driver. See more;

Modulated Horizontal Lines

Modulated Horizontal Lines, 1976 by Dean Winkler and Chris Lambiase, music by Terry Riley. It was created in real time using an RE-4 Rutt/Etra analog video synthesizer. See more;

via | VIDEO CIRCUITS

Wade Guyton

"Wade Guyton's paintings are ostensibly black monochromes. Made with an Epson large format printer in the same manner as the paintings he has been producing for the last years, these works are printed on pre-primed linen intended for oil painting and not inkjet printing. As such, the images, marks, and letters Guyton continues to employ are absorbed into the porous material and disperse the ink rather than allowing it, as in his previous works, to "sit on the surface." Upon discovering this difference in the ink's interaction with the surface, the artist began to overprint his own paintings with a Photoshop-drawn rectangle "filled" with the color black. By repetitively overprinting, an unexpected painterly process developed. As each piece is created, they transcribe a visual record of the printer's actions: the trace of movement of the print heads, the varying states of their clogged-ness, the track marks of the wheels on wet ink all mixed with the scratches and smears on the paintings from being dragged across the floor to be fed back again into the printer." - Friedrich Petzel Gallery. See more;

via | Sympathy for the art gallery

Wind by Damian Stewart

Wind, 2008-2011 by Damian Stewart_
"Each presentation of Wind takes the form of a temporary intervention, constructed around a site-specific visual environment of objects that are moving in the wind, such as a tree or a field of tall grass. A video camera records images of this visual environment. The images are directed through a digital processing system that extracts fields of motion and mathematically transforms these into fields of sound. The fields of sound are in turn reproduced through loudspeakers placed within the original environment.

Heard and seen together, the sound fields and visual environment form a tight cybernetic feedback loop. The sound fields guide and enhance the viewer’s visual experience, focusing their visual attention toward particular kinds of visual motion. This strengthened visual experience guides and enhances the viewer’s sonic experience, focusing their sonic attention toward particular kinds of sonic motion. This feedback loop creates a strong interconnection between the visual and the sonic within the mind of the viewer, leading to momentary states of complete attention to the different senses, and an overall heightened awareness of the beauty that is present." - Damian Stewart. See more;

Wind: sound from motion (2008-2011)

Wind at aDA Symposium 06/2009

Wind at O Espaço do Tempo, Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal, 2008

Technical details

"The input from the camera (1) feeds into the computer vision processing system (2), which finds motion and converts it into a format useful for sound synthesis (3). In the existing prototype, the camera (1) is an external digital video camera that sends data to a laptop computer running software which handles (2) and (3). Sound signals produced from (3) are amplifier and dispersed using loudspeakers (4).These components are all housed in a portable enclosure and powered by a 12V rechargeable battery, allowing for exhibition in practically any environment or location."

Made with openFrameworks and Pure Data, with production completed during a New Interfaces for Performance  residency.

Daniel Temkin

Glitchometry Stripes #8

These are some great new results from Daniel Temkin's ongoing project "Glitchometry" which was published here while ago, read more about here. Below of each piece there is a detail view as the original files  are quite huge. See more;

Glitchometry Stripes #8 (detail)

Glitchometry Stripes #untitled

It was made by databending an image of black and white stripes with long delay and flanger effects. The original is 10k x 10k pixels.

Glitchometry Stripes #4

b&w stripes databent, using delay and flanger

Glitchometry Stripes #5

Glitchometry Stripes #untitled

It was created by opening an image of black and white stripes in a sound editor and applying very slow delay and flanger effects

Glitchometry Stripes #6

Glitchometry Stripes #untitled

Jonathan Cecil

Portrait of Rafah digital print. 46″ x 46″

Jonathan Cecil created between 2008 and 2011 interesting three-dimensional floating cityscapes generated from satellite and aerial imaging data featuring a particular and beautiful aesthetic. 

"Easy access to aerial imagery and geospatial information is changing how we view and interact with our urban environments. I use these resources to investigate geologic and urban structures, particularly in areas of political interest. This series of work uses satellite and aerial imaging data to explore and to critique the illusionary boundary of macro and micro scales through defamiliarization. Images of urban areas are the input for a computational process that produces a high resolution 3D mesh which is rendered with ray tracing software to produce a final image." - Jonathan Cecil. See more;

Chicago Fly
http://jonathancecil.com/chicago-fly/

Los Angeles Spin

http://jonathancecil.com/los-angeles-spin/

Basrah Zoom

http://jonathancecil.com/basrah-zoom/