New Media as Art: Generative Filmmaking
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.
is embedding supported by UBC blogs? it doesn’t seem to like Vimeo’s embed codes..
schuyler
18 Jan 11 at 1:37 pm
This HTML5 experiment my friend Jono put together is also an interesting example of automation and interactivity in New Media:
http://nostalgia.jonobr1.com/
schuyler
18 Jan 11 at 1:51 pm
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!
Rob
18 Jan 11 at 7:01 pm
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”).
schuyler
18 Jan 11 at 8:14 pm
I want that Kitchen!!!
Rob
18 Jan 11 at 11:06 pm
Dinner will be ready when the dolphins are done swimming through the lasagna…
Eric Meyers
22 Jan 11 at 12:06 pm
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
kifty
23 Jan 11 at 10:07 pm