Links to digital art from Devon

V Art 1

V Art 2


Here are links to two examples of virtual art from Paul Gillard, a Devon artist who sometimes visits Exeter.

Requires Quicktime and maybe a wait while it arrives. Move the cursor about to begin.

What strikes me is that this is intended to be seen on a screen. There is a complete digital process from creation to distribution and viewing. You could take a snapshot and print it but this would not be an original unless it took on a new life.

Couple of Quicktime samples from the official site

There is an official site and they offer a couple of samples of about 30sec each.

Page for Arabesque from '70s . Digital Harmony from '80s.

I think these are close to demoscene. Comment welcome, not sure how to d3escribe this.

There is a possibility of an archive. I think this should be digital and online. Seems crazy to me that this is not complete and widely available.

John Whitney link

Here is the only John Whitney aniamation I can find on YouTube or Google video
From the IBM pavilion at the Brussels World Fair in 1958

Creative Collective at the Globe

This is a digital projector as used at the Globe for a showing of short films from the Creative Collective based at the Phoenix. It was all based on tape, but could have had a direct feed from a computer. Not animation as such but there is now a lot of overlap on how video is created.

I hope to find more content from the demoscene and work out how to transfer to DVD.

Meet the blogger day at LifeBytes

Photo shows David Gedrych reading a Turner book I took to Life Bytes yesterday. David is there most days. For me it turned out to be like allowing too much comment on a blog, I hardly started on what I thought about raising. Still, connections with Spacex now more likely as there was some talk about flat images. the idea of taking digital images from a phone and putting them on a wall did not make much sense for the people present but I still see a connection.

More later. It is possible there will be courses on 3D.

More tests on Flickr

Interesting talk today from Peter Davidson.

Apparently at one time a mirror had the advantage of making sure there was an oval frame. I have tried this on some photos now loaded on Flickr.

They were taken by Gary Trembling a couple of years ago. I don't think he will mind.

Wifi confirmed at Phoenix

Photos demonstrate that wifi is working in the Phoenix bar. Website for Animated Exeter is working ok. Some exhibitions have started already. Test kit courtesy of Jonathan Dawson who can independently confirm that these are genuine photographs.







Third photo detail from second.

theWEST

The walk with Tim Brennan was interesting today. More later.

Photos were allowed. I have done a PDF slide show (about 6 meg) and also some on Flickr. You can choose a slideshow on Flickr so this is close to animation if you don't wanr to download the PDF.

Suggested tags animx07 and thewest

Links for the summer

I realise that part of the attraction of Animated Exeter and Vibraphonic is that they offer an indoors escape route for getting through the last of the winter before we can move around more easily.

Here are some links from the past, the Psand van once in Dorset and a blog of a travel round demoscene events. Future posts willa rgue that there is a connection between the demoscene and the streaming media found via the Psand site and Radio Vague.

On being just a bit rude

Well excuse me. The time has come to raise a few issues. If you can't ramble in a blog what is the world coming to?

After all, the Animated Exeter fortnight is still a few weeks off so there is time to get some feedback and develop a new point of view that appears more reasonable.

What strikes me most often is the amazing potential of digital technology and the way this is ignored by some art institutions. Take the Spacex Gallery for example.

A couple of years ago there was a disaster environment based on Apple computers. At first I thought they were offering web access and complained when the connection failed. It was explained this was the intended effect, nothing was to work at all. An imitation of life apparently.

Last year there was technology that worked, mostly DVD I think but hidden away. Film projection was celebrated, see my photograph in a report for OhmyNews. As well as stills the exhibit featured video. Unfortunately the website did not show full video or any scale on the excerpts available. I think this has to change when YouTube and Google Video make so much stuff available. Some of what is on YouTube is not very good but it is getting better. Compare with the website from the Animators show. This is a bit flat. See also the Luxonline site. Other links suggestions would be welcome.

This year the technology has the potential to further challenge the limitations of gallery display. The images have been created through a wide-format inkjet from a digital source. I hope to find out more later but I am fairly sure some form of inkjet has been used. Reportedly there is no Photoshop manipulation of the mobile phone photos. Personally I don't think this would matter. Most digital cameras do a lot of adjustment anyway.

So there is no reason why a website could not have some downloads so that anyone could print out a version of 'theNorth'. Of course the display at Spacex has been carefull controlled and selected and I am not trying to discourage a visit if you are anywhere nearby. But a gallery is not the only way to show photos from a mobile.

Meanwhile at the Royal Alber Museum there are a series of prints, many from limited editions. There may be something about the technology that determines these limits on numbers. But digital is different.

During Animated Exeter there will be workshops at Spacex to create animation from still photos. It is not clear yet what form this takes or how they will be distributed.

My own photos are nothing special so there is no problem in choosing the Creative Commons copyright form on Flickr. See previous post about a limited form of animation.

Probably something better will turn up.

Not that online is better than a gallery. There is a recent Guardian article about museums still being better than an iPod. This seems too polarised a choice. I learning discussions there is now more support for 'blended learning', a combination of online and real life. Maybe digital display can work with something similar.

Sample of Google Video

Just checking this still works

Russian stop frame

Meet the Blogger 11th Feb

Animated Exeter starts 12th Feb. By chance the Phoenix tour with short films reaches the Globe, Newtown at 2.30 on Sunday. At the LifeBytes internet resource nearby there will be a live discussion around digital animation etc, starting about 12.30.

Top problem lack of food. Life Bytes is not actually a cafe as there is already one next door. The Globe is not really a Sunday lunch sort of pub. So details of what happens will have to be worked out around food at some point. More later.

Photos start to link the 'North' and the Globe

Animated Exeter has already started in that there is an exhibit at Spacex which will continue till 24 Feb. 'The NORTH' combines watercolour based on space photos with blown-up inkjet images from a mobile phone. The 'North' seems to be a romantic destination somewhere beyond the city.

During Feb there will be workshops at Spacex creating animation from mobile phone images. Maybe there will be hard copy results as well.

Meanwhile at Life Bytes on Sidwell Street there is ample web access and most software required for graphics including video. Not far away is the Globe where some short films will be shown for people who have not already seen them at the Phoenix.

Exeter Television is based at Life Bytes so may add a report during Animated Exeter. My guess is that there will be informal discussion on this at the Globe.

I have done a selection of photos that may show some connections. They are on Flicr with a Creative Commons copyright so feel free to reuse if you put in a link.

The photos

The slideshow

Animation has to start somewhere. More later.

Suggest "animx07" as tag for future stuff.

Italian Flash poetry

This is a very gentle example of Flash. I usually think of Flash as an annoying ad or tiresome intro but this is fine. I don't understand Italian but just click on text to hear a voice. Maybe it would make less sense if you understood the words but an arbitrary aorder of lines seems ok.

Demoscene now easier to find

Jo Gedrych at Exeter Television has now edited some video from Sundown at Budleigh Salterton. It is available on YouTube



There is more for Sundown turning up as well.



and this video capture



Amiga AHX Tracker module, 1st place in Oldskool Music category at Sundown '06. Poorly filmed and then audio-synched to A1200 Paula output. AHX filesize is 20kb, 20 instruments, 99 patterns.

The trend in new stuff on YouTube and Google Video is such that an intro to the demoscene is now available. I still think downloading zip files etc is a bit of a block for most people.

What is this?

It may not be animation but it seems to be stop frame.



I'm at the "Be the Reds" internet cafe behind Goodge Street station where Cyberia used to be. Broadband very impressive but they don't allow sound. everley Brothers in background at the moment. Can't really complain.

The Syphus tune from Sundown is now on video at YouTube



There is an 8 second version at the bottom of my OhmyNews report.

More video is being edited and will appear later.

Now from Google video, the background

This is from 3Sat, in German with English subtitles



This was created for a Commodore 64. More examples

Animation on YouTube and Google Video

I have now discovered how to embed code and link to YouTube and Google.

What took so long?, you may well ask. Not sure, really. I sort of realised but it has become obvious recently.

This is stop frame from Sesame Street. Stop frame is a very good place to start.



This is an example of a demo as from scene.org
Fair Play To The Queen by Candela
info at Pouet




In my opinion this is an easy way for people to get an idea about the demoscene. Downloading zip files is not for everyone.

Joined up blogs

Later today there should be a guide to other blogs that I work on or at least a diagram as part of my learn9 website. This is about learning so one current idea is to make the blogs at least appear more coherent. I have tended to just start another one and then not continue.