I just came across this on the Arts Council's Arts News noticeboard:
"Computer Baroque: defining works in the history of digital moving image - an
online exhibition - curated by Richard Wright - animateprojects.org until 14
July 2009.
Animate Projects presents Computer Baroque, an online exhibition of films by
pioneers of computer animation, hailing from the UK, US, Japan, France, Hungary,
Australia and Canada. The programme includes works from the 1980s and 1990s, a
period when artists undertook audacious experiments in technique. As curator
Richard Wright says, "Artists wanted to push the computer as far as it would go,
to create visual transformations that defied previous traditions, to blend
image, music and text, and to apply scientific ideas as new sources of
inspiration." The films range from earlier, technologically progressive works by
Karl Sims and William Latham, to the more ironic and satirical works by Shelley
Lake and the Butler Brothers. Programme notes and an essay by curator Richard
Wright accompany the exhibition."
I've only had a chance to look at a few of the animations so far - and there are
probably far too many to look at them all - but this exhibition has obviously
got some jawdropping work in it. The first one I looked at, completely at
random, was called "Maxwell's Demon" by James Duesing, and it turned out to be a
fantastical, visionary, nightmarishly sinister piece about a community of
mutants living on a polluted lake.
- Edward
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