The document discusses various topics related to digital music video and computer animation such as visual music, expanded cinema, kinetic animation, and the demoscene. It provides examples of early computer animators like Lillian Schwartz and examples of digital videos made for music. It also lists some kinetic animations that could be shown and discusses using large-scale projection at Exeter Cathedral. Issues around rights and distribution of video are mentioned as well as possibilities for machinima and demoscene on mobile and cloud platforms.
1. Will's Wonderful World of
Digital Music Video
http://animexeter.blogspot.com/
revised slides (YouTube version)
for
19 Feb 2011
Animated Exeter
2. New Canvas
Term used for early computer animation at previous event
during Animated Exeter. Greg Kurcewicz also curated "A
Beautiful Virus Inside the Machine" about Lillian Schwartz.
Could be
Visual Music
Expanded Cinema
Tags - Beautiful Virus Machine New Canvas
3. Lillian Schwartz - A BEAUTIFIUL VIRUS INSIDE
THE MACHINE:
http://www.lumen.org.uk Shown in 2002
Films:
NEWTONIAN I, 1978, 4 mins, 16mm, colour
NEWTONIAN II, 1978, 5 mins 30 secs, 16mm, colour
MUTATIONS, 1974, 7 mins 30 secs, 16mm, colour
PIXILLATION, 1970, 4 mins, 16mm, colour
GOOGLEPLEX, 1972, 5 mins 30 secs, 16mm, colour & b/w
RITUEL, 1979, 30 mins, 16mm, colour
UFO’S, 1971, 3 mins, 16mm, colour
continues
4. Virus continued
METAMORPHOSIS, 1974, 8 mins 15 secs, 16mm, colour &
b/w
PICTURES FROM A GALLERY, 1976, 7 mins, 16mm, colour
THE ARTIST AND THE COMPUTER, 1976, 10 mins, 16mm,
colour
L’OISEAU, 1977, 4 mins, 16mm, colour
ALAE, 1975, 5 mins, 16mm, colour
APOTHEOSIS, 1973, 4 mins 30 secs, 16mm, colour
PAPILLIONS, 1974, 4 mins, 16mm, colour
INNOCENCE, 1973, 2 mins 30 secs, 16mm, colour
ENIGMA, 1972, 4 mins 20 secs, 16mm, colour & b/w
9. 4. The Flexipede Tony Pritchett 1968 UK 2
min
http://animaland-ecotone.blogspot.com/2008/09/flexipede.htmlcotone.blogspot.
com/2008/09/flexipede.html
12. Center For Visual Music
On Curating Recent Digital Abstract Visual Music
By Jack Ox and Cindy Keefer
New York Digital Salon & Abstract Visual
Music
Show in 2005 some video online
Tag : visual music
13. _grau | Robert Seidel | HD
http://2minds.de/grau.9.0.html
14. www.centerforvisualmusic.org
Online store for
DVDs and an
archive with the
world's largest
collection of
resources on
visual music,
including
historical work on
film and new
contemporary
digital work.
15. Expanded Cinema
Book by Gene
Youngblood, 1970
Summary in Wikipedia
Colour plates and book as PDF
download
Part Four
CYBERNETIC CINEMA AND
COMPUTER FILMS
tag expanded cinema
16. So "New Canvas" still useful term. to describe
what was shown previously during Animated
Exeter
Greg Kurcewicz website has text and video-
http://www.kurcewicz.co.uk
Extract follows from
The Cinematic Experience
On Feb 13th, showing of Overstimulation
http://www.kurcewicz.co.
uk/project/overstimulation/
17. We do not really need a new technology.
We have enough of it, even too much of
it, and only a few artists artist are
deploying it critically. In VJ-ing and much
“live, digital” cinema I see just software
and rarely communication. I am not
impressed with software, in the same
way that I am not simply impressed with
mediums of cds, mini discs or even vinyl
records.
18. Digital technology opens up a whole new archive of
material for artists but it is a leveller of images.
Whereas we might all have many differences
culturally, and many different cultural reference points,
we do have one thing in common: our nervous
system. To get into a situation where we are
questioning our perception is in fact a great
commonality, one that is achieved in many
experimental films. To return our view to the real world
is a breakthrough for us at this moment in time. To re-
discover the act of looking and a space for looking at
something is a crucial and political act to undertake for
artists.
19. demoscene
Sundown demoparty closed in 2010 but
http://www.scene.org/
There is a book in PDF form for download, but not free...
http://www.demoscenebook.com/
Discussion on copyright etc. later depending on timings.
20. @party
Special notice to all the readers:
We do not want to be a videogame.
We don't want to be an art movie either.
We are just kickin it DEMOSTYLE.
-- from Re-recycle by Fairlight
June 17-19, 2011,
at Friendly Crossways Hostel and Retreat Center
21. the demoscene's artistic and technical
antecedents can be traced back as far as the
1930s if not further.Although their work may not
have directly exerted an influence on the
demoscene from the beginning, the work of
animators like Oskar Fischinger,Mary Ellen
Bute, and John Whitney laid the foundation for
the aesthetic sensibility expressed in many
demos.
http://www.atparty-demoscene.net/
22. Suggested additional resources
Pages at Center for Visual Music
Oskar Fischinger
Mary Ellen Bute
There is additional information, not in the Wikipedia pages
suggested by @party
29. Layered video,
mixing animation and performance. What
possibilities?
Discussion could continue during
Vibraphonic
Meanwhile, from Breakpoint
30. Kinetic Animation, work shown
6 Weeks in June , Stuart Hilton UK 1998
3 Ways to Go, Sarah Cox UK 1997
Magnetic Movie, Semiconductor UK 2007
Silence Moves, Shay Hamias UK 2002
Virus, Robert Proch Poland 2008
Battements Solaires, Patrick Bokanowski France
2007
Stressed, Karen Kelly UK 1995
Flying Fur, George Griffin USA 1981
Clocks, Kirsten Winter Germany 1995
Sunset Strip, Kayla Parker UK 1996
Triangle, Erica Russell UK 1994
Programmed by Jayne Pilling
35. Continues....
Part Two - Issues arising
video for local TV / YouTube, Vimeo etc.
creative commons / rights
sound recording
demoscene - mobile, cloud ?
Exeter Cathedral,
Busk / open mike
Animation / edit
Apple, Adobe. Open Source
Poland
Analog 2 Digital