Borna Sammak

"Borna Sammak collects and manipulates videos primarily by deleting colors of the composition that don’t relate to him as much as others that do. This is why most of Borna’s videos are so recognizable, his color palette is unique to his taste—the same taste that guides him through the web or influences any choice for that matter. The deconstructed images weave in and out of one another so that there is no longer an image above nor an image below but instead a sort of hermetic structure flowing within itself. Flowing but at the same time not entirely changing any more than an eye follows the compostion of a static image.

Borna’s main inspiration however isn’t the shit content he finds online. Instead he is inspired mostly by camouflage—which is evident in the patterns he constructs—a pattern, as a native Philadelphian, he first encountered on cargo shorts." - Jasmin Tsou at Vox Populi Gallery. See more;

Gray Water, 2013

Untitled Video Painting 07, 2009

Untitled Video Painting 05, 2009

Untitled Video Painting 02, 2009

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OSSITY #4 - KLAXING FLUXION by KOKOFREAKBEAN

KLAXING FLUXION is the latest piece by KOKOFREAKBEAN who continues working on his OSSITY series, being this the issue #4. As he describes it is another pseudo-glitch ragtag funk rampage designed for maximum ocular molestation. KOKOFREAKBEAN tells us more about this work and its process;
"The creation of an OSSITY involves an uncomfortable degree of nudity, a bevy of random violence that usually culminates in murder, and the occasional assistance of a Leyak. Of course, those are merely the preliminary details. The intensive labor begins with short 5-10 second animated loops created in Maya. My first concern is the visual beauty and balance/ imbalance of what is contained in these little scenes. From there, I animate the shapes and/or camera in a rhythmic way that I know will be ripe for sonic accompaniment. I create the sounds piece by piece (sometimes working from one small group of frames to the next) trying to achieve as closely as possible what I think what I'm looking at sounds like (I use Reaktor, Reason, a Micron keyboard, Kaoss pad, etc. for this task), eventually finish, and repeat the process with another loop. When I have a nice little farm of well-manicured loops at my disposal, I bring them all to the slaughterhouse (Adobe Premiere and Adobe After Effects) and have vicious, unhinged editing-sex with their mangled corpses." See more;

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See also previous posts about KOKOFREAKBEAN's works published here 1, 2, 3.

Ahn Min Jeong

Stunning autobiographic data analytics based illustrations created by south korean Ahn Min Jeong who says; “My work appears to be emotionless and analytic, but when you take a close look at it, the majority of my work employs motifs from personal memories, people around me and things that I have.”. See more;

Self-Portrait, digital print, 2007

(88×210.3cm)

"Creating a portrait of my body in this piece, I employed signs and symbols, like those commonly used in blueprints or mechanical drawings, thus leading viewers to imagine someone whom they haven’t met and possibly to reconstruct a “new” person out of the complicated and yet clearly descriptive anatomy. Technically speaking, I first measure each body part, including the length, distance and angle, and then transfer the measured dimensions onto the paper. In the process, even small moles, scars and pimples on the skin are carefully observed and translated into symbols. In addition, I also try to quantify the aura of the figure in kilometers, which refers to an invisible spirit and soul, drawing halo-like curves around the head."

Six-Membered Family Portrait: Mother Distributed Aloes of Her Own Cultivation among Her Family, digital print, 2007

(400×78.4cm)

"In the piece, six members of my family gathered together massaging with aloes that my mother had grown herself. Through this artwork, I tried to capture stories of family and the relationships between family members. The halo around the mother’s head represents her warm energy and aura. Yellow rays coming out from the mother’s forehead represent the “light of love” that she has toward her family. Also, I used the hormone, Oxytocin which is related to motherhood, for my older sister’s love and care for her baby sister."

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Bilingualism, digital print, 2007

(91x91cm)

This piece was on display at the exhibition titled Visible Sound held in 2007. In collaboration with hearing-impaired students, I interpreted their sign language into different images. Here, sign language and the visual image work in tandem to convey the same contents. In this artwork, I used the symbols from circuit diagrams to express the interrelationships between figures, the situations they are in, their appearances, how often they met, as well as how and why they met, etc.

Six-Membered Family Portrait: All Goes Well, digital print, 2008

 91x91cm

"This piece is about a good family as a unit of responsible individuals. The most popular Korean phrase for a family motto “가화만사성(Ga-wha-man-sah-seong)” meaning “when one´s home is harmonious, all goes well” is repeated making concentric rings and embracing the entire pictorial space. Underneath it, all the family members are assembled into a single human body. The faces of the parents, who are the foundation of a family, appear as turns in a main circle which becomes the head of a bigger figure, while their four daughters form the body."

Self-Portrait: Painting, digital print,  2008

240x180cm

"This is me painting. I tried to express my thoughts on painting, my perspective on the world, and the energy of an artist."

The Power of a Kiss, digital print, 2008

73.2×68.4cm

"Based upon my personal memories where I would never go to school without my mom giving me a kiss good bye, in this piece, I tried to analyze what power a kiss can hold. It clearly shows that what moves the human mind is neither by the order of the brain or muscle movements nor is it by the energy generated from food.

When I was a primary school student in 1989, I was hard to go to school alone. However, my mom kissed me whenever sending me to school, by then, I was encouraged to go to school. Even when she sometimes forgot to kiss me, I got kissed by all means, and then I was highly excited to go to school like a rabbit. When I was tired to walk on the way to school, I recharged the power of mom’s kiss saved on my face. I arrived at school after the power of her kiss was exhausted, and I spent many days in this way. By the time I am used to going to school alone, neither mom’s kiss is able to encourage me any longer, nor she kisses me anymore."

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Masako Tanaka & Oval

Loving this digital madness! The following videos are from a collaboration work based on 10-channel audiovisual installations between Tokyo-born visual artist Masako Tanaka and musician Markus Popp aka Oval. These works were created for a ten-screen panoramic AV performance space with multi-channel audio at Recombinant Media Labs’ CineChamber.

"This is a visual representation of Oval's early 2000’s period delving to visually simulate the fragmentary and densely layered sound blasts with irregular textured and complex percussive elements; as the listeners perceive Oval’s intricate integration of processed audible electrical glitches and tonal instrumental sources with their eyes" - Masako Tanaka. See more;

Oval - Halveplane, 2011

10-channel audiovisual installation

Oval - Sol v3.5, 2011

10-channel audiovisual installation

Oval - Flam v4.2, 2011 

10-channel audiovisual installation

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Lambeaux by Nicolas Boillot

Lambeaux is a work in progress by Nicolas Boillot, who is studying a Ph.D in audiovisual aesthetic in the LARA, a research laboratory of the university of Toulouse, France. This work is part of his thesis which is focused on the remix in digital art. Nicolas is making real time video installation using Openframeworks. 

In “Lambeaux”, the television stream is taken as raw material, a material lacerated by a process of motion capture which extract in real time all the pixel that have changed during the broadcast. Those fragments are captured and recast, in a spatial-temporal way, on a twenty-four images loop. See more (the following GIFs are quite heavy, wait to load them please);

The accumulation process takes place within the contours of past images and the way pixels are then reorganized in real time produces a jagged image with unreal effects - a ghostly memory of the video flux, a colorful palimpsest where fragments of motion and time coexist.

Nicolas is looking for a way to export the video without dropping frame in openframeworks. For now he has exported some tests on GIF format.

Lambeaux will be exhibited as a live video installation (using local TV broadcast) in Le Hublot at Nice, France from the 17th of March to the 8th of April 2012.

thanks for the tip Filip!

CHAOTIC ORDER by MIRAI MIZUE

I was excited when I saw "chaotic" in the title of the latest Mirai Mizue's animated work, I was expecting something like that! I love the chaos Mizue creates multiplying his organic and mesmerizing loops. 

While ago I published one of my favorite animated works from him, called JAM, see here. Mizue follows a traditional animated process, drawing and coloring by hand and then scanning the drawings to play the frames in the computer. The process is really hard, you can check it here. I guess, once he has an animated  loop, he multiplies them to make the work easier and create this kind of chaos. See more;