Lovebytes at Millennium Galleries

Colorcalm : by Design 2

until 1 April 2007

Millennium Galleries, Arundel Gate, Sheffield, UK
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Opening Times
Monday - Saturday 8am - 5pm
Sunday 11am - 5pm

Lovebytes at the Millennium galleries presents the world premiere by Design
2 - a collection of video works selected byLos Angeles based creative design
studio Colorcalm <http://www.colorcalm.com/> .

Following the launch of their first design DVD by Design in 2005, Colorcalm
held an international search for designers working in the field of ambient
visual media. This year long contest was supported by Pantone, The Conran
Shop, Moco-Loco, Res magazine and Lovebytes.

The three finalists Rob Tyler, Jonathan McCabe and Dan Riley, have created a
series of works using a variety of animation and digital video techniques.
This exhibition shows one film from each of the designers.The complete
series of works in by Design 2 will be available to download from the
internet later in 2007 from:
www.atmospictures.com <http://www.atmospictures.com/>

Color + Modulation (No.4) - Rob Tyler. USA, 1998-2005

Rob Tyler's work Color + Modulation aims to create playful motion with
smooth explosions of colour and shape. To achieve this he has laboriously
hand-painted 16mm film frame-by-frame, which is then digitally manipulated
on a computer. Working with acrylic and metallic paints as well as with a
pallet of permanent ink pens and spray paint canisters this series of film
paintings' took 7 years to complete.

Rob Tyler is a graphic designer and filmmaker living and working in Portland
Oregon USA. Working in both documentary and experimental media, Rob Tyler
has been the recipient of various grants and awards including the Oregon
Arts Commission's Media Fellowship in 2003, a first place prize at The
Florida Experimental Film Festival and finished 3rd place in Aurora Picture
Show's Extremely Shorts programs on two occasions.

Rob Tyler's website:
http://vcr100.com <http://vcr100.com/>

Nervous States - Jonathan McCabe. Australia, 2006

This is the fourth in a series of six films entitled Nervous States. These
films are created using a computer to emulate the activity of the neurons in
the brain using a very simple model of how a nervous system might work. Each
animation maps the behaviour of an artificial neural network using a certain
set of rules. The artist then intervenes by selecting images from the
resulting animation sequences.

Jonathan McCabe is a systems engineer at the National Facility of the
Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing, Australia. He is interested
in theories of biological pattern formation and evolution and how they can
be applied to computer art. His previous exhibitions have all been in
Canberra, Autralia.

More of Jonathan McCabe's work can be found at:
http://sf.anu.edu.au/~jrm900/The_Front/

Happy & Sappy - Dan Riley. USA, 2006

Dan Riley intends to 'transport the viewer, not to another place and time,
but instead to another place where time does not exist at all'. He uses
simple 2 dimensional shapes, strong colour combinations and transformations
to create playful, abstract, animated mosaics with organic fluidity and
humour.

Dan Riley lives and works in Los Angeles. His work as a computer programmer
and visual artist includes video, film and motion graphics and design for
interactive media and print. His most recent work for Atmos Pictures (the
company behind the Colorcalm project) was to provide visuals for a Youth
AIDS Charity event in New York City. Riley has also been developing an
animated film pilot film with Tom Hanks' company Playtone and creating pop
promotional vidoes, live visual and web based motion graphics for the music
industry.

Dan Riley's website:
www.rilestyle.com/

Lovebytes at Millennium Galleries is a collaboration between Sheffield
Galleries & Museums Trust and the Sheffield based digital arts organisation
Lovebytes. The programme is part-funded by the European Regional Development
Fund, Objective 1 and the Arts Council England.

For further information visit:
www.colorcalm.com <http://www.colorcalm.com/>
www.sheffieldgalleries.org.uk <http://www.sheffieldgalleries.org.uk/>
www.lovebytes.org.uk <http://www.lovebytes.org.uk/>