Here's a new net art piece by Vancouver's Kate Armstrong and Michael
Tippett. It's called Space Video:
http://www.tippett.org/2012/04/16/space-video-launches/
This is a wife/husband team. Kate is an artist and writer; Michael is an
artist-programmer.
"Space Video addresses ideas of exploration in relation to inner and outer
space. Having noticed that there are shared aesthetic qualities of video
imagery that accompany disparate cultural and scientific phenomena including
guided meditation, hypnosis, undersea and space exploration by NASA,
motivational speaking, powerpoint backgrounds, science fiction, psychedelic
drug culture, electronic music, popular spirituality, and computer effects,
we have built a generative system that mixes an original non-linear
narrative with YouTube videos on these subjects as they are uploaded in real
time. These videos often attempt to portray what are ultimately non-visual
spaces, producing images that are at once placeholders, images of the
transcendental, trippy intergalactic stereotypes, and fields for
persuasion."
Kate wrote the text. Of it, she says:
"The narrative is inspired by technical manuals and science fiction novels,
and references diverse sources including 1960s American adventure books for
boys (such as the adventures of Tom Swift by Victor Appleton II) and the
Victorian flapper ethic of the 1920's British literary compendium for girls
called Blackie's Girls' Annual. Themes include adventure, exploration,
recreation, infinity, technology, action, and decorum."
Kate and Michael did a somewhat related earlier piece called Graphik Dynamo
at http://www.turbulence.org/Works/dynamo/ . It's related in that, again,
Kate wrote the text and Michael did the programming. But, moreover, again
it's a generative piece where the visuals are retrieved via a feed from the
net and the visuals are different each time you play the piece, as is the
sequencing of the texts.
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