A trip through 3D scans of Zurich with music of Niki Reiser.
On behalf of the Zurich Film Foundation for the Zurich Film Award, Cadrage.
The work has been shown as a 360° projection.
Painting with Timescale – teamLab’s Time-blossoming Flowers – Taiwan
One of the beautiful aspects of digital video and audio that I fell in love with when first exploring the mediums, was the introduction of a time scale. teamLab’s Time-blossoming Flowers is a wonderful example of this. In none narrative works, in particular, timescale changes the experience of a work. The subtlety in which something can change and transform over time can add a wonderful undercurrent to a work. A traditional video has its limitations in that regards as there is almost always an upper limit on time. With generative and 3d imagery that time limit can be broken. In that space imagery can constantly be changing, never the same.
That’s the beauty of teamLab’s Time-blossoming Flowers – Taiwan. It changes from hour to hour, day to day, all year long. The work has a timeline on a human scale. It allows for a subtlety that would be otherwise hard to create or experience. As an installation piece, it allows people to interact with it and observe it in a way that would be difficult in a traditional viewing space. It seems to be a work that is meant to be lived with as it lives with you, growing and changing throughout the year, catching your eye and bringing you back to it time and time again to experience the differences.
The piece truly is timeless.
https://youtu.be/CeO3jSwNueg
From the project page
The appearance of the work changes throughout the day. It grows light with the sunrise, glows with the sunset, and darkens as the night sets in. The artwork is in sync with the actual sunrise and sunset every day at this location.
The flowers of Taiwan bloom one after the other as the seasons change with the passage of time throughout the year. The flowers known as the Four Gentlemen, the orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum, and plum, are used to represent the four seasons. The flowers sprout, then grow, bud, and bloom. Before long they scatter, wither, and fade away. In this way, the flowers continue their infinite cycle of birth and death.
The Last Day of Hot Metal Typesetting at The New York Time, a Short Documentary
A short documentary by David Loeb Weiss, a former New York Times proofreader, chronicling the final day of hot metal typesetting on the 1 July 1978.
Craft In America Landscape – As Inspiration & Material
Craft In America is a truly wonderful program that never ceases to be a source of inspiration and strength. This Craft In America Landscape episode hits particular close to home for me. The topic of the Landscape is a subject matter I returned to in my own work many times. In a similar vein to PBS’s Art 21: Art in the Twenty First Century documentary series, what the artists say and they way they relate to their work and subjects resonates with me.
What I particularly like about Craft In America is the focus on the process of craft, a practice and tradition of creating, and the balance point between technique and inspiration, to create something that has value in our experance with it.
To make art you develop an infallible technique and then place yourself at the mercy of inspiration.
In this episode: Craft artists depend on their natural environment for both materials and inspiration. This hour looks at the processes through which natural materials become finished works of craft, and what deeper messages may be contained therein. Featured artists include Jan Yager, Kit Carson, David Gurney, George & Mira Nakashima, Richard Notkin, and Timberline Lodge.
Artistic Style Transfer for Videos – Danil Krivoruchko’s NYC Flow
The open source code produced by Manuel Ruder, Alexey Dosovitskiy and Thomas Brox was used in generating the final render of NYC Flow.
In the past, manually re-drawing an image in a certain artistic style required a professional artist and a long time. Doing this for a video sequence single-handed was beyond imagination. Nowadays computers provide new possibilities. We present an approach that transfers the style from one image (for example, a painting) to a whole video sequence. We make use of recent advances in style transfer in still images and propose new initializations and loss functions applicable to videos. This allows us to generate consistent and stable stylized video sequences, even in cases with large motion and strong occlusion. We show that the proposed method clearly outperforms simpler baselines both qualitatively and quantitatively.
Style transfer for videos, as described in the paper “Artistic style transfer for videos” by Manuel Ruder, Alexey Dosovitskiy and Thomas Brox https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.08610
Earthworks – An Immersive Geological Installation By Semiconductor
Earthworks is a five channel computer generated animation, which creates an immersive experience of the phenomena of landscape formation through the scientific and technological devices that are used to study it. Masses of colourful layers are animated by the sound-scapes of earthquake, volcanic, glacial and human activity, recorded as seismic waves, which form spectacular fluctuating marbled waveforms.
By using seismic data to control the masses of layers Semiconductor are not only playing with the idea that it is these forces that have shaped landscapes, but also that being an event that occurs beyond a human-time frame, landscape formation can only be experienced through scientific technological mediation of nature. It produces information about time, space and phenomena that no human consciousness could possibly have witnessed. It is as if we are watching hundreds of thousands of years played out in front of our eyes, enabling us to bear witness to events which ordinarily occur on geological time-frames.
– Semiconductor of Earthworks
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