Morgan Higby-Flowers

Morgan Higby-Flowers_

"My interests circulate around particular spectrums in newmedia art, specifically work that incorporates discarded technologies. My sensibility tends to pursues encounters with wonderment & visual representations of new deformations." - Morgan Higby-Flowers. See more;

2013-08-13 at PM 03.49.33, 2013

PixelJAM2013_mrgn_hgby-flwrs, 2013

output [of] no-input system studio performance (long), 2010

notha, 2010

Movie 5, 2010

thanks for the tip, Chris Shier

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

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_

Andreas Nicolas Fischer

Here is a big update about Andreas Nicolas Fischer's work, which presents beautiful organic CGI made using several generative tools, specifically for the project into the post called Brute Forced Method he used a python script within Blender3d creating an endless series of 3d still-life compositions, which it then automatically publishes on his tumblr http://x.anf.nu.

Some of these weird viscous creatures and reflective textures remind me of the living ones created by Yoichiro Kawaguchi back in the late 80's, which were created thanks to his well known technique GROWTH Model, a model based on growth algorithm, and who has been highly inspired by sea creatures. See more;

Skynet, 2012

"Skynet is a non linear animation about a global networked consciousness. It plays with the idea how a single entity could the perceive the world – from a satellite to a microscopic view. 

Full sensory awareness encompassing the entire world is rolled into one artificial organism communicating with itself in realtime."

Engineered Viral Strain, 2012 - II, 2013

Brute Force Method, 2013

"There are no efficient algorithms for many computer science problems. The simplest approach is to try all possible (or many) solutions until the desired outcome is reached. This is called Brute Force Method. I created a Python script that creates arrangements of intersecting digital sculptures in front of a “frozen” cloth simulation, similar to a traditional still life, but with no physical constraints. The HDR image texture used to create the reflections on the genometry was taken at my studio, placing the virtual setup in the real world."

Brute Force Approach [Studies], 2013

Arrangement of digital sculptures in front of a “frozen” cloth simulation.

Brute Force Approach II, 2013

Roland Schimmel

"Over the last two decades, Dutch artist Roland Schimmel has produced a compelling oeuvre of abstract paintings to which digital animations have been added more recently (these films are “illustrated” by music of composer David Lopato). What the works have in common is the exploration of sensorial frontiers. the paintings and animations depict optical structures or fields, in which the soft contours of shimmering haloes and hard edges of black holes pop up and meet. Observing the encounter of these contrasting forms evokes physical sensations of expansion and contraction reminiscent of op art’s push and pull effects." - Minus Space. See more;

Blind Spot I, 2004

Blind Spot II, 2004

Blind Spot III, 2004

Acrylic paintings on canvas

MGMT - OPTIMIZER

Still image of Andrew Benson visual for the Optimizer

MGMT has released their third album, a self-titled LP and along with two psychedelic visual projects which have been launched together, one is called "Optimizer", an immersive audio and visual experience to accompany the new album for its full 44 minute run time. It has been directed and edited by Alejandro Miguel Justino Crawford by mixing the visuals produced by Andrew Benson, Chris Timms, Geoffrey Lillemon and Emilio Gomariz. The Optimizer comes together by buying the album on iTunes.

The second visual and interactive project it's their own website whoismgmt.com whose background features a classic already distortion and melting aesthetic created by Chris Shier who has built an interactive painting website working in multiuser mode which means that everyone who is on the website will be painting together over the same canvas in real time. For this occasion Chris has put several easter eggs in your keyboard keys to change colours and aesthetic of the different strokes, also there is another one to create "G"ifs of cropped areas of the painting process.. try it! See more;

Multiuser painting website by Chris Shier

"Optimizer" directed and edited by Alejandro Miguel Justino Crawford

(Below are some still images from the individual works from the different artists to create the Optimizer, courtesy MGMT)

Andrew Benson
http://pixlpa.com/

Chris Timms
http://chriscotimms.com/

Geoffrey Lillemon
http://www.geoffreylillemon.com

Emilio Gomariz
http://emiliogomariz.net