Moving Grasses - Movie

 

This was a video made from found footage on Prelinger Archives.  It was taken from 2 videos of fields of grass and sand dunes with grass.

It was then cut and edge detection was added to give a sketchy look.  I think this makes it look like some sort of yucky stuff(bacteria) on a petrie dish moving around. I used a rough dissolve to have that look of blobs on the petrie dish.

Credits and a movie title were added but l did not want to add music as l thought silence was better.

What is Digital Art?

Digital art is a term used to describe any artistic work that includes the use of digital technology. it is an essential part of the creative process in this art form, from video cameras to voice recorders and still images to the ipad uses technological advances have enabled us to even use camera phones to film sound and image.

Digital art started as far back as the 1970s when computers first became available to the public for experimentation.  It was considered a risk to traditional practices of painting, drawing and even sculpture.

There are many different types of digital art that fall under this umbrella, digital photography, digital installation art, video art, animation, performance and even virtual reality.

There are artists that must be mentioned when considering the wide world of digital art today.  Bill Viola, Marina Abramowic, Carolee Schneeman, Shigeko Kubota(Paik' wife) these people show us the need for a transition into the recording of their performances because if they are not recorded they would not be remembered in the way that we see them today and the appreciation of the techniques that were available to us would not be so grave. Although we do not appreciate what is available to us everyday, it just becomes part of our lives...mundane even. 

On The Sea Shore - Movie

This video was shot at Silver Sands beach in Aberdour, it shows the beach with the tide coming in. 

This movie plays in realtime speed and the footage is based on 11 secs of film, that has been copied several times. l tried using in this movie one of the auto settings available to me, it added the oppurtunity to add titles and credits at the end.  l added music by Thors, Mindscape.

Fading Foam and Lace - Movie

This is another video that l have made myself.  It is constructed from photographs taken at the beach in Aberdour called Silver Sands.

This video intentionally has no sound as l feel this allows the viewer to envisage themselves on the beach with the waves lapping against their toes allowing them to focus on the feeling and not the sounds...

Angela

Streaming Rivers - Movie

This is my very own video that was taken down the local park, it has many streams that run into the river.

This was based on 9 secs of film and is slowed down to 0.25 and is accompanied by music and is credited at the end of the film,

Thats all for now.

Angela

Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí

This was inspired by a program that l had watched on Sky Arts 1 on Tuesday evening. l was very interested to see the thoughts of Dali and how he put across his ideas.   Here is Un Chien Andalou both artists making a great partnership.

Another that l found equally interesting probably just due to the comparison that the first had no talking and was silent and this one has some talking in Spanish albeit, L'Age d'or.

The films that were made by this duo at the beginning were black and white and seem to be very bright.

They are styled to be of a surrealist nature and can be very garish but l feel that the jerky movements actually add to the quirkiness of these films.  I think that I will try to make my own black and white movie using clips from movies.

That is all for now, but l will return with more great digital artists soon.

Sam Taylor Wood

Sam Taylor Wood is a Turner Prize nominee from 1998, only losing to painter Chris Ofili, but winning the llly Cafe Prize for most promising young artist at the 1997 Venice Biennale.   She is part of the Young British Artists alongside Tracy Emin and Damien Hirst.

She now is a film-maker, photographer and visual artist in Hollywood making films such as Nowhere Boy, about the youth of the late Beatles legend, John Lennon.

Taylor Wood began life in fine art photography in the 1990s with a collaboration with Henry Bond titled the 26th October 1993 featuring the pair of them in roles of Yoko Ono and John Lennon (photographer Annie Leibovitz) just hours previous to the shooting of Lennon.  This would have been the pivotal moment on her decision to make Nowhere Boy film.

Here is one of her short films about decay and death entitled A Little Death (2002).

This second video is called A Still Life (2001) is very like a Caravaggio still life of a fruit bowl transforming from a beautiful display of excellent quality into a mass of rotten mess.

This second video is called A Still Life (2001).

Both of these video seem to speed through and be like a time lapse taken over a period of time to focus on the decay of the food that is available to us.  It shows the use of a time delay that has been taken, to cover the full time that the food or animal goes from fresh to decayed and fit for the bucket.  The pieces although not described by the artist seem to be near a window as the re is strong natural light coming from the left hand side.

Thanks for watching!

Angela