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_

One gif compositions by Evan Roth

Mesmerizing GIF compositions created by the animation and repetition of one single animated GIF over the website, each piece it's hosted in a different domain, this is an excellent work by Evan Roth! See more;

A Tribute To Heather, 2013

http://tribute-to-heather.com/

"A Tribute To Heather is a collection of ten new One Gif Compositions (next work featured in this post) created from single animated gif files found on Heather’s Animations. Heather’s Animations is a hand crafted personal archive of early Animated Gifs that has remained online, free for all and relatively unchanged since 1999." 

The new pieces are: flower-on-lightgrey.com,  hotairballoon-on-whitesmoke.com,  heather-on-cyan.com,  blimp-on-deepskyblue.com,  fighterjet-on-lightcyan.com,  email-on-floralwhite.com,  shuttle-on-dodgerblue.com,  deer-on-silver.com,  keyboard-on-deeppink.com,  revolver-on-mintcream.com

One Gif Compositions, 2012
http://www.evan-roth.com/work/one-gif-compositions/

"One Gif Compositions are a series of web-based pieces that use found animated gif files to create visual motion studies. Unique animation cycles are formed based on how the browser downloads and caches each of the individual .gif files over time. Each .gif in a given sequence is given a unique file name, convincing the browser to treat them as different images rather than copies of a single file."

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Little Shining Man

Little Shining Man, 2011 by Heather & Ivan Morison and Queen + Crawford_

"Little Shining Man is a sculpture that has the potential for flight. The design of the structure is based around the tetra kites of Alexander Graham Bell, multiplied out into colliding cubes that take their form from the cubic formations of the mineral Pyrite. A double wing module has been duplicated and arranged into a tight cellular structural arrangement that appears as a heavy, un-flyable mass. Utilising lightweight materials and the symmetry of the module and composition, it is able to fly freely and steadily." See more;

"The kite flown in the images is one section of an arrangement of three, that come together to create the final piece of sculpture that is taken own from display once a year to be flown in St. Aubin’s Bay.

There were several challenges in realising Little Shining Man. The structure had to be as strong and light as possible in order to fly, but had to return to earth with minimal damage so it could be installed as a piece of sculpture. Carbon fibre rod and Cuben fibre, a hand made composite fabric used primarily in racing yacht sails, achieved the perfect combination of strength and weight. The visual impact of the fabric produces an ethereal sense of depth and refraction that gives the heavy mass the lightest touch.

Queen & Crawford designed a joint system, the CKJ_01, a universal Nylon joint that would handle every connection in the composition. They work closely with 3TRPD in Newbury who are at the cutting edge of the Rapid Prototyping Industry. Printing the joints allows design, production, testing and refinement in a short time frame. The material is light and strong, perfect for this application.

More than 23,000 individual components make up the complete structure. Entirely assembled by hand; from design through to delivery more than 16 months of work." - Matthew Higginbottom, Queen + Crawford.

Credits: Conceived by Heather & Ivan Morison - Component design, detail design and fabrication by Queen & Crawford - Technical Consultation: Sash Reading - QCKJ_01 designer: Matthew Higginbottom - Fabricators: Matthew Foster, Matthew Higginbottom, Joseph Wheldon, Matthew North, John Hammersley - Machinists: Sue Fox, Zoey Evans - Video production and editing: JimandTonic - Photography: Matt Porteous.

Green Waves by Nicolas Sassoon

Green Waves is the latest great GIF series by Nicolas Sassoon, it is part of a collaboration with Kenzo who says; "Green Waves was inspired by the new Kenzo Spring Summer 2012 prints. Using a green and black moiré pattern, the abstract series is evocative of tropical water scenes: waterfalls cascading, movements of large bodies of water and ripples over the surface." See more;

Nicolas has started another similar Kenzo-inspired GIF series focused on a different color and landscape, they will be featured at Kenzine. I really like the first one called Red Sea.

He has also recently launched his new website where you can find several unpublished works and documentation about his past and current projects >>> http://www.nicolassassoon.com/

NOTE: The real size for each piece is 900px x 900px, so click the following GIFs to see the the right size (if your screen is 24" or bigger, or you will see it right if you are seeing this through RSS-feed. Anyway you can see the complete series on his blog.

ECCOS by Andrew Norman Wilson

A slowed-down video of Ecco the Dolphin gameplay is used to create an experimental philosophical space that focuses on the phenomena of waves, this space is called "Center for Wave Change" by Andrew Norman Wilson. He tells us more about ECCOS, a 6 hours meditation video which is part of the "Center for Wave Change", a proposal project for the ongoing Rhizome Commissions. 

"ECCOS is based on an .mp4 video file of the gamer “RickyC” beating the Sega Genesis game Ecco the Dolphin in just under 80 minutes. I have slowed down the original file to a duration of six hours, because six hours is the maximum duration for sequences with high audio data rates in Final Cut Pro. I have applied “echo” filters on both the audio and video tracks, and pushed all values within those filters to the maximum. Full length video coming to DVD/VHS soon. Soundtrack available on CD/Cassette soon." See more;

"ECCOS will become the source media for an experimental philosophical space I'm developing called the Center for Wave Change, in which overlapping aesthetic cues and general objectives are borrowed from both science centers and new age centers to focus on a shared interest: the phenomena of waves. Within the installation, light waves, sound waves, and water waves are manipulated as mediums for scientific display, relaxation, and aesthetic experience. These varied waves are reflected, diffused, refracted and diffracted by tools such as video projectors, projection screens, a video camera, mirrors, waterbeds, and more." - Andrew Norman Wilson.

More information about the project here.




Ecco Diagram for the installation component of Center for Wave Change.

Maschinezeit (re-edit) by Aaron Chan

Maschinezeit (re-edit) is a glitchy physical environment created by Aaron Chan. For this project Aaron was approached by choreographer/publisher Jeanne-Salomé Rochat about editing some footage she had. Aaron says for Dazed & Confused "Jeanne-Salomé gave me a loose guideline of wanting bodies to virtually multiply in space, and to connect that with the clothing and the exhibition/museum space somehow... For the parts where it gets really weird on screen it was animated frame by frame, so this film took longer to make than anything else I've worked on in my short career." See more;

A visual project made in collaboration with, fashion designer Damir Doma, music by AIDS-3D, choreographer Jeanne-Salomé Rochat, photographer Maxime Büchi and the Theatre of Hunters exhibition by Pedro Barateiro. The work was created to be screened as part of Channel 4 and Dazed & Confused's 'Random Acts' project.

Curated by James West and Series
Produced by Juliette Larthe for Dazed & Confused
Made in association with Channel 4

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IHSE by Esther Hunziker

"IHSE by Esther Hunziker is a series of autonomous architectural buildings. Each photo shows a geometric figure, which overrides the forms of classical architecture. There is no roof nor a base, no top or bottom. The buildings float in the void. Architecture which looks like concrete capsules through which one can move into a different space-time continuum. The interactive online version of the photo series IHSE, responds to the mouse movements of the user. You hear a spherical, meditative sound in the background. Architectural buildings float slowly in empty space and endlessly multiply themselves out of themselves. They grow to a certain size until they divide into two. By moving the mouse the user can intervene in this process, slow down or accelerate the growth and turnaround the direction of the IHSE travel." See more; 

See the work here. The feeling with the mouse is good and smooth. I recommend to experiment with the interactive piece, it is nice to see how it works. I like how fast each different piece start, I also like when the pointer is stopped the visual continues moving smoothly. 

IHSE is a recently project added to the Rhizome's Artbase.

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