Enrico Boccioletti

Some great works from Enrico Boccioletti. The first project into the post and the image above is from the series called "Content aware" which consists in a collection of edited pictures downloaded from fashion blogs, where the subject is assimilated to the background using content-aware fill in photoshop. It is also an ongoin project at http://content-aware.tumblr.com. Content-aware fill is a feature introduced in photoshop CS5 which matches any selected area to its surrounding context, as like as the removed object never existed. The subject of the shot is not actually removed or deleted but only absorbed into the background, de facto equalizing both of them on a same level of relevance. Also, a ghost (an idea) is still visible in the picture, a reminder of the actual subject (a real person) that was there.

Every image comes with a name and an address as caption, a fake name generated generated by an algorithm according coherently to a set number of parameters. See more;

Content-aware, 2011

nsurf, 2011

onemonthforkast.com, 2011

onemonthforkast.com consists in one month of mp3s posted on popular Pitchfork magazine podcast named "forkcast", january 25, 2011 to february 25, 2011. All files hosted at their original location "downloads.pitchforkmedia.com". All the songs start automatically, in random order depending on access to server and network speed then keep looping forever, shifting podcast from consequential to simultaneous. harmony slowly fading into noise. Dependently from parameters like browser versions and connection speed every experience is different, due to intrinsic trouble in handling the huge amount of data, providing a totally random experience. There is absolutely nothing to do here. stare at the void and wait for things to happen.

Dedicated to Jean Genet: "To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance."

http://onemonthforkast.com/

PSX Generation, 2011

15 psx boot sequence video from youtube.

http://spcnvdr.org/psxgeneration.html

Lie.gif, 2011

 

thanks for the tip Kim!

Photoshop Skillz by Anthony Antonellis

Photoshop Skillz is a great program-exploration by Anthony Antonellis.  In this case he used and experimented using basic tools and filters from Photoshop to get different visual animated manifestations. 

"Anthony Antonellis is an artist based on the internet. His process is cumulative: copy-pasting between analog and digital states. His recent work experiments with painting as a conduit, short animation, filtering, and doing-it-wrong approaches. He studied at Bauhaus-University Weimar, MFA in new artistic strategies, and Savannah College of Art and Design, BFA in painting." See more;

Anthony tells us more about;

On photoshop skillz, it focuses on the back end of the software, the part we all see when we are using it, it’s a lot of the clicking around we do, especially during getting to know period of a new program. I had seen all these amazing works lately, really outstanding 3D pieces from artists like Tabor Robak and Jon Rafman, meanwhile I had only been scratching the surface of new media art. So I wanted to showcase my ‘skillz’, in a sort of naïve doing-it-wrong look what I can do sort of way. It’s based on screen recordings using each of Photoshop’s basic tools and filters. The music is by Alma Alloro aka Bikecore. We were sharing a studio in grad school and she had been working on that 4 July set while I was creating Photoshop Skillz. I’m really happy people liked it, and it's been already  curated into a small number of shows.

This video shows a faster version of, see the slower one, here.

RGB Transition

RGB Transition is a great minimalist piece created by Timothy Evans in collaboration with Daniel Eatock. They used only three colors; R, G, and B, and then 50 common video transitions to animate it. I really love this simple way and powerful result!

"A video image consists of three primary components - red, green and blue. For this work each component channel was fed a differently timed sequence of 50 common video transitions. As the three components recombine to create a video image; constantly changing forms and colours are revealed." See more;