This Creator’s Project post on Generative Filmmaking provides some pretty cool examples of algorithm-based media objects that illustrate Manovich’s concept of “automation.” The blog is definitely worth browsing if you’re interested in this type of thing.
See also: Processing-based installation and video artwork by Quayola that invsigates the “improbable relationships between contemporary digital aesthetics and icons of classical art and architecture.” Link: http://www.quayola.com/index.php?/strata-1/
And for a more direct New Media deconstruction of physical architecture there are quite a few artists using sophisticated projection setups to develop visual sets tailored to specific buildings. ie: http://vimeo.com/15713774
Amazing Building Mapping – Vimeo Festival from Dan Ilic on Vimeo.
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is embedding supported by UBC blogs? it doesn’t seem to like Vimeo’s embed codes..
This HTML5 experiment my friend Jono put together is also an interesting example of automation and interactivity in New Media:
http://nostalgia.jonobr1.com/
That building mapping is awesomeness defined! I really like this sort of interactive art and the manipulation of old art and making it into new media. Very fun stuff. I know, I’m sounding like a nerd… I’m not in a technical/academic frame of mind today!
I’m pretty much always an unabashed nerd, so glad you enjoyed it. This Korean collective, Lumpen does a lot more really cool image mapping (check out “Magic Kitchen”).
I want that Kitchen!!!
Dinner will be ready when the dolphins are done swimming through the lasagna…
My favourite bit of Generative Filmmaking that I’ve seen recently is the mandelbox fly-throughs that have been showing up lately. A mandelbox (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbox) is a three-dimensional fractal that was discovered last year. It’s essentially a rendering of pure math in an incredibly beautiful and fascinating way:
http://sites.google.com/site/mandelbox/videos