Kinetic Animation - Virus by Robert Proch

I have been looking online for video around Kinetica and found Virus by Robert Proch



This seems much closer to the "electronic and new media" aspect of Kinetica. The work at the Phoenix is mostly mechanical. Virus will be shown on a big screen at 6pm on Saturday at the Phoenix. my talk should finish around 4 so that would allow time for a drink and to check the gallery.

The music is by Herbaliser.

Robert Proch has a page on Vimeo with other work.

There are also videos on a page from Intoxicated Demons, a sort of online gallery though they do real events as well. I hope to find out more about them.

Previously, the Oregonian reports Rose Bond

Here is a YouTube interview with Rose Bond who will be in Exeter for the animation at the castle. My guess is that it will be ok to photograph or video so there could be several examples. Suggest tag #rosebondexeter

Decode and Kinetica

I am finding out more about Decode and Kinetika at the V&A. Not sure how they connect.



It seems that there is more about electronics and new media, not just the kinetic as such

relating to the motion of material bodies and the forces associated therewith

source wordnetweb



Links welcome on web aspects of the artists showing at the Phoenix.

Web video is spreading

Checking out sites ahead of Animated Exeter next weekend I find that there is a lot more content online. Lumen supported the first event curated by Greg Kurcewicz and shown in Exeter, featuring work by Lillian Schwartz. They now have a Vimeo channel where I found this example. Not animation I think, looks like actual footage.



Also distributors Lux have some work on YouTube , mostly interviews with short extracts



So gradually more content is available. Still linked to protected content but part of a changing scene.

Slides for 13th Feb

Most content ready for talk so comments welcome during the week. Time now fairly limited but links or DVDs please also.

YouTube Playlists for (www) Digital Music Video

Finding more and more stuff on YouTube so can show the intention of the talk at Phoenix Exeter on Feb 13th.

Previously a version of the whole content though for copyright reasons the earlier work will not be shown. Actually updated since but this post has a bitly link - bit.ly/dmv-play so please stick with this.



Also an updated selection similar to "A New Canvas" see previous post for list from Animated Exeter showing.



Previous blog post now a playlist. Ruairi Fullan at TechAdventures in Bristol with the video versions of what was shown. Ruairi will also be at the Imaginary Lounge during Animated Exeter.



I am also finding other video on YouTube by Steve Jolliffe and Paul Gillard, showing a direction for music video. (Some of Paul Gillard's earlier work has no sound, but I think it is better suited to music)

Lillian Schwartz - A BEAUTIFIUL VIRUS INSIDE THE MACHINE:

Films shown in 2002 also curated by Greg Kurcewitz , source Lumen

http://www.lumen.org.uk/evo/evolution2002/programme/day1.html

Films:
NEWTONIAN I, 1978, 4 mins, 16mm, colour
NEWTONIAN II, 1978, 5 mins 30 secs, 16mm, colour
MUTATIONS, 1974, 7 mins 30 secs, 16mm, colour
PIXILLATION, 1970, 4 mins, 16mm, colour
GOOGLEPLEX, 1972, 5 mins 30 secs, 16mm, colour & b/w
RITUEL, 1979, 30 mins, 16mm, colour
UFO’S, 1971, 3 mins, 16mm, colour
METAMORPHOSIS, 1974, 8 mins 15 secs, 16mm, colour & b/w
PICTURES FROM A GALLERY, 1976, 7 mins, 16mm, colour
THE ARTIST AND THE COMPUTER, 1976, 10 mins, 16mm, colour
L’OISEAU, 1977, 4 mins, 16mm, colour
ALAE, 1975, 5 mins, 16mm, colour
APOTHEOSIS, 1973, 4 mins 30 secs, 16mm, colour
PAPILLIONS, 1974, 4 mins, 16mm, colour
INNOCENCE, 1973, 2 mins 30 secs, 16mm, colour
ENIGMA, 1972, 4 mins 20 secs, 16mm, colour & b/w

New Canvas - what was shown previously

Copied from previous webpage that I can no longer find online.

I think this was 2005

Programme

1.Poemfield # 2 Stan Vanderbeek and Kenneth Knowlton 1966 USA 6 min

A text based computer film produced with Kenneth Knowlton at Bell laboratories

Born in 1927—died in 1984.VanDerBeek studied art and architecture first at Cooper Union College in New York and then at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where he met architect Buckminster Fuller, composer John Cage, and choreographer Merce Cunningham. VanDerBeek began his career in the 1950s making independent art film while learning animation techniques and working painting scenary and set designs for the American TV show, "Winky Dink and You." . His desire for the utopian led him to work with Ken Knowlton in a co-operation at the Bell Telephone Company laboratories, where dozens of computer animated films and holographic experiments were created by the end of the 1960's. At the same time, He taught at many universities, researching new methods of representation, from the steam projections at the Guggenheim Museum to the interactive television transmissions of his "Violence Sonata2 broadcast on several channels in 1970.



2.Cibernetik 5.3 John Stehura 1965-69 USA 16mm Colour 8 min

A personal , self - propelled and mainly self funded project, Cibernetik 5.3 was a personal mission for John Stehura..

"John"s [Stehura's] spectacular film Cibernetik 5.3 combines computer graphics with organic live-action photography to create a new reality, a Third World Reality, that is both haunting and extraordinarily beautiful. Cybernetik makes use of realist imagery for its nonobjective qualities and thus impinges directly upon the emotions more successfully than any computer film discussed in this book. However, John considers the film only an "incidental test" in an ongoing experiment with computer graphics that has occupied most of his time for the last nine years. John is interested in addressing the computer directly through graphic images rather than using mathematics to achieve graphic images and thus becoming enmeshed in a "number game." Cybernetik is unique also in that it was constructed from semi-random image-generation techniques. Whereas most of the computer films discussed so far are characterized by mathematical precision, Cybernetik exudes a strong feeling for the uncontrolled, the uncontrollable, the unconceivable."

- Gene Youngblood, Expanded Cinema, 1969

3.Hummingbird Charles Csuri 1967 USA B/W 10 min

"We completed a ten minute computer animated film entitled Hummingbird. The subject was a line drawing of a hummingbird for which a sequence of movements appropriate to the bird were outlined. Over 30,000 images comprising some 25 motion sequences were generated by the computer. For these, selected sequences were used for the film. A micro-film plotter recorded the images directly to film. To facilitate control over the motion of some sequences, the programs were written to read all the controlling parameters from cards, one card for each frame. Curve fit or other date generating programs were used to punch the parameter decks. We also built a windowing option into our plot subroutine. "

- Charles Csuri


Courtesy of The Huntington and Csuri Archives
College of the Arts The Ohio State University



4. The Flexipede Tony Pritchett 1968 UK 2 min

Courtesy of Tony Pritchett and Cache AHRB at Birkbeck

Tony Pritchett, (born England 1938) known for Flexipede, one of the first examples of digital film created in 1967. It took several months to make during 1966 and 1967, using the London University Atlas computer (a supercomputer in those days, with 128K of online memory), programmed in Fortran on punched cards with a 2-hour turn-around time, and output on the first microfilmrecorder in the UK. The microfilm recorder was only capable of drawing black lines on to a square area of the film frame,which accounts for its rather restricted graphic style. Flexipede was shown publicly for the first time at the Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in 1968.



5.Permutations John Whitney 1966 USA 8 min

Music by Balachandra. In this film, Whitney developed the musical concept of consonance/dissonance (extension, tension) with a visual art by means of the computer.

Whitney points out that the effects created by the graphic figures are similar with some of the effects of tension produced by the music. :

"In PERMUTATIONS, each point moves at a different speed and moves in a direction independent according to natural laws' quite as valid as those of Pythagoras, while moving in their circular field. Their action produces a phenomenon more or less equivalent to the musical harmonies. When the points reach certain relationships (harmonic) numerical to other parameters of the equation, they form elementary figures."- John Whitney

Permutations features beautiful computer generated visuals made from strips of film as part of an IBM research program on computer graphics. Whitney's images were made by selecting numerical variables that determine particular graphic patterns. Whitney described Permutations as "the first step toward developing a compositional language by which the art of graphics in motion might be structured in time."



6.Olympiad Lillian Schwartz 1971 USA 2:35 min
Music: Max Mathews
Courtesy of Lillian Schwartz and Lumen

A study in motion based on Muybridge's photographs of man running. "Figures of computer stylized athletes are seen in brilliant hues chasing each other across the screen. Images are then reversed and run across the screen in the other direction”

link to A beautiful virus inside the machine

7.Two Space Larry Cuba 1979 USA 8 min

Two dimensional patterns, like the tile patterns of Islamic temples, are generated by performing a set of symmetry operations (translations, rotations, and reflections) upon a basic figure or tile. Two Space consists of twelve such patterns produced using each of nine different animating figures (12 x 9 = 108 total). Rendered in stark black and white, the patterns produce optical illusions of figure-ground reversal and afterimages of color. Gamelan music from the classical tradition of Java adds to the mesmerizing effect.

Curated by Greg Kurcewicz for Animated Exeter

Harvard Party Links to Whitney,Bute,Fischinger

Looking around for links to my WonderfulWorldof Digital Music Video

Found a site for a demoparty near Harvard coming up next June. There is a section

Related material

A Silent KeyJason Scott describes interviewing an oldskool ham who had an archive of telegraph art.
Oskar Fischinger (Wikipedia)
Mary Ellen Bute (Wikipedia)
John Whitney (Wikipedia)
"Analog Demo Scene: Get Real" (a humorous short film)


Please feel free to suggest additional resources

So Whitney and others could be seen as part of the demoscene. Sounds ok to me but there areother wordsthat are used. More later.

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Digital Music Video - Youtube version

In Feb 2010 I will introduce a selection of video at the Phoenix as part of Animated Exeter. This will start with early computer animation, then the demoscene, then music video. There is only space for fifteen seats and the time allowed is now two hours, about twice what I expected. So there should be plenty of scope for discussion.

The event is free and there is no budget so probably there will not be actual video from the early days. Some free download extracts are available online and permission will be asked for. Alternatively there will probably also be discussion of the computer techniques used by John Whitney and comparison with techniques known on the demoscene.

Meanwhile there is much content on YouTube so an idea of the intention comes across from this playlist-



about ten minutes short of an hour at the moment so suggestions are welcome. Also any new stuff from the demoscene or music video. Not sure how much will be shown in Feb but weblinks always possible.

The description being used is "digital music video" as being very general. Also not sure about the rights on other terms such as "visual music", "expanded cinema", "new canvas", others. Need to find a way to describe "early computer animation". demoscene is clear enough. "music video" crops up on YouTube. Generally the early content is not well known as far as I can tell compared with the demoscene. Based on people I meet. So issues around how stuff is distributed will be part of the discussion.

There may be time to look at games. But music video seems to me to be the most interesting direction.