I chose to look over a video by Universal Everything called Transfiguration which has very mesmerizing visuals and even sound effects. This video has a figure go through different transformations from fire to rock, gold to boiling and etc. This was also done by using CGI animation.
The 2nd artist I decided to do was Mike Olbinski from storm chasers who did different time lapses on weather phenomenons. I chose to do this because Im working with Time-lapse and wanted to get a look at different types of TimeLapses. This is also very pleasing to look at as the storms form or clear up.
Lynn Tomlinson creates short films and new media projects that investigate historical stories told from unusual points-of-view. Tomlinson's work has been exhibited in one-person shows at Cornell University and the University of Delaware and in group shows at the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, and the National Gallery, and is in the Education Department collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Lynn Tomlinson is a community-based public artist who led the construction of four large-scale ceramic mosaics in Central Florida
Often drawing from socio-political conditions in post-apartheid South Africa, William Kentridge’s work takes on a form that is expressionist in nature. Kentridge is the recipient of honorary doctorates from several universities including Yale and the University of London. In 2015 he was appointed an Honorary Academician of the Royal Academy in London.
Aaron Bernstein is an Adobe Creative Resident who combines photography with his love for grocery shopping and grocery stores. He seeks to change people's perspectives on food beyond its current state. He feels through the videos you can focus on the why and also be able to learn about different cultures. For the examples below he focusing on different tips for creating stop motions.
Andrew and Carrisa are a couple based in the US who cinematographers. They've worked with brands like Levi's. For this particular project that came up with a story where a young girl is lost and trying to find her way home, the more she tries the more she gets lost.
George Redhawk is a blind artist, who digital photos into gifs. He manipulates photos to depict how he sees the world. To create his images he uses photo morphing software. His artwork seeks to challenge the visual sense of order.
Evan Hilton is a self-taught animator, he mainly works in advertising. Working with major brands like Nike, Vans, and Apple. He also creates works that involve food manipulation.
Rafia Santana is an American artist based in Brooklyn. She works with various mediums like gifs, performance art, and music. Her work seeks to empower black and brown communities and challenge ideas on solidarity.
Frank Nitty is a gif artist, currently based in Hong Kong, who refers to his gifs as video doodles. He combines surrealism with fashion to create his compositions. He has created work for both Gucci and Burberry. With his works, he seeks to make the human body abstract to create hypnotic canvases.
He is a Taiwanese artist who works with both digital technology and traditional art. His piece "The Inheritance" involves story, dance, real-time motion capture, and many more. It's a good use of a variety of different techniques.
New Media Artist: Kirsten Lepore
She is an animator who is best known for her stop motion short films. "Guess Who" is the title of one of her earlier stop motions which she said she was just having some fun. It features music by Grandmaster Flash.
Timothy Walter Burton is an American film director, producer, writer, and artist. Known for his gothic fantasy and horror films such as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas. The Nightmare before Christmas was created in 1933 directed by Henry Selick.
Rob Whitworth is a British photographer and urban film maker, based in Norwich, with flow motion based works throughout Asia. His works are mainly based on time-lapse.
Fresh Guacamole was nominated in 2013 for the Academy Awards which happened to be the shortest film ever nominated for an Oscar. PES's uncanny knack for transforming familiar objects and people through stop-motion animation has earned him global recognition and dozens of honors. Fresh Guacamole is the most-viewed Oscar short in history.
These two artists run under the studio name Ann Street
Studios.Kevin and Jamie used their
talents as photographers and videographers to create successful cinemagraphs for
major fashion and advertising companies, showing this art is highly appealing
to many viewers.I came across them when
researching artists who create the GIF like work.It’s a photography, yet a video and I find myself
attracted more to the idea of it rather than just video.This type of work is compelling, and my
interest continues to peak in learning techniques of how these are created.
I couldn’t find much personal information about Jason.I just happen to come across his work while
searching and discovered many artists on the page called Flixel. He did have his website linked on the page and
I was able to explore much of his work, as well as save some of his tutorials
for future research.Focusing on his
cinemagraphs, I was attracted again to the combination of photo and video, but
what really caught my attention about his work was the usage of lights in many
of the cityscapes.The continuous
movements, flickers, and blurs of the lights within the still image makes me
reflect on the fast-paced life of being in a city compared to the pace of
electricity.Our movement is frozen
compared to the high-speed electricity can move. An even deeper story can come from thinking
about how technology has developed and become so fast compared to physical human
capabilities.
I wasn’t able to embed his work as they are protected, but
included both links that I found his work on.
Ryan Trecartin makes colorful, jarringly surreal videos that challenge a New York-centric, heteronormative vision of art. His videos are intentionally hyperactive and confusing.
Nam June Paik was a Korean American artist and he is credited as the founder of video art.
New Media Artists: Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller
Janet is an audio artist and George, her husband, helps her with her audio walks where she adds a voiceover to a video and has people put headphones in and go to these actual places and play the video. It's a really cool concept.
New Media Artist: Scott Snibbe
Scott's work, "Boundary Functions" is an interactive piece that allows viewers to step on the screen that creates these boundaries when multiple step on at a time.
This artist's video wasn't something that I would click with, but as I watched, it got continually more and more confusing, as I was asking myself 'what is this? how does this make sense but not make sense at all?' It states in the article where I found her work, "Adjectives people usually associate with video art: disturbing, overwhelming, pretentious, provocative. One adjective people don't associate with video art so often: funny." Moulten's work wasn't what I had expected but it did have some comedic moments where you would just ask 'why?' and then just laugh about it. She was able to work with not only a fun and exciting environment, but this specific video works around her own alter-ego and provides a more inside look on truly goes on behind closed doors. It provides an odd look into her own life but could also be interpreted to more.
To be honest, when looking at his gifs, it just made me want to climb through my computer and just sit and enjoy what was created. Burton creates quick atmospheric GIFs that truly grasp the definition of science fiction and realism. "Much of what you see here represents Burton's personal experiments", this was really interesting to read in an article full of all his GIFs he created because it makes a reader/ viewer think about what he's done in the past for him to create all these wonderful animations.
Anastassia Eliasis a new media that works with recycled materials and creates art from them. For her series Rouleaux, she made a cutout of different scenes using toilet paper rolls. She created 36 for the series. Within the rolls, she's able to create 3D scenes as well through lighting. She worked with paintings as well but prefers paper.
JF Lemay is Ilustrator and Animator from Quebec, Canada. He spent 10 years working as a web designer before following his dreams of becoming an Illustrator. Lemay's artwork is inspired by macabre and H.R Giger.
This week I continued to explore GIF images.I am becoming interested deeper in how they
are used as artwork and not just a goofy image you post or text to
someone.
Erdal Inci’s creations are so hypnotizing to watch.The creative use of lights or his personal
self to create the repetitive movement are seamless and you cannot help but
appreciate the dedication to his art. This quote from the Huffington Post
summarizes his work perfectly and reflects the reason I chose him:“Artist and photographer Erdal Inci has created
a hypnotic series of GIFs that takes the concept of cloned motion to a truly eerie
level.Often using images of himself in
mundane situations, Inci transforms simple snapshots into entrancing video
loops.Believe us, these clips will
haunt your computer screen while you attempt to decipher the unique patterns.”
I have included his webpage as well as a link to a video
that talks about his work and GIFs as art.
I could not find too much information about this artist who
goes by DarkAngelØne and/or George RedHawk. Several of his pages have been disabled or
deleted, but one of the articles I did find speaks about that while he essentially
has created the GIFs the original art is not his, he is just manipulating it. Perhaps this is a controversy he is dealing
with because it is not clear if he credits the original artist or not. He does say “It is my opinion that art is
meant to be shared and enjoyed. It doesn’t
belong to me; it belongs to anyone it calls to.”
Despite the possible controversy, there is no denying his
creations are breath-taking and mesmerizing alone. He also creates videos by placing several GIFs
in one and adds music, intensifying not only the effects they can have, but creating
a whole new piece of art.
Carl Burton is an artist in New York who creates surrealist gif sets. Carl Burton is a New York photographer whose work was exhibited at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in Color and Light: Photographs by Carl Burton in 2011. He often works with a panoramic camera capturing landscapes and cityscapes such as The Dogana, Grand Canal, Venice, Italy, pictured above. Curator of Education, Alice Novak, recently caught up with the artist to ask him about the creation of this photograph.
https://www.carlburton.io/#/gif-set-4/
James Curran
James Curran is an animator and director who makes gifs for fun. He's also known as SlimJim Studios online. Unfortunately I could not find any information about his work.
I chose this artist because her work, "Entangled" which lets people stand in front of a screen and their movements draw colors on the screen in front of them using sensors. I really like the ideas of interactive art and I think this work demonstrates that perfectly.
New Media Artist: Olia Lialina
This work, I think, demonstrates GIF because you have the image of her swinging and it's going frame by frame and it's repeating. I chose it because it's interesting how she's just swinging away in open space.
Lumixar is a video production company integrating film, animation and post production. I choose this time lapse because of the place. New York happens to be one of my favorite places considering the fast pace. I was also interested in this video because of the colors/ lights.
https://vimeo.com/193281197
This is a stop motion I like the idea behind it and how simple it was. Its seems as through she did put a lot of thought behind. it considering the small details that are in pac man like the small dots in the game
For one of my artists today I decided to do David Zinn. He likes to walk around drawing chalk creatures on sidewalks and different buildings. These creatures are very detailed and he actually uses different props on the sidewalk to go along with them. He want people to envision them as real characters while they're walk so he made a short video actually animating them called Around the Block.
The next artist I did was Eric Power and his work he reflected on how he would escape the real world by playing video games. He makes an animation/video called Nostalgia going through the evolution of video games and creates the scenes all out of paper.
For this week's artists, I was focused on finding gif artists, no only for inspiration, but to see what creations can truly be made and explored.
Uno Moralez
Not only was this artist the first gif I looked at, but it was also the first glimpse that caught my eye. Known as a self-entitled "pixel painter", Moralez is a Russian-based artist whose pieces of work are simple yet hold a significant amount of imagery and creation.
Micael Reynaud
This artist, I consider one of a kind. His pieces included everything from food to personalizations of people. This provided article below holds a lot of his pieces and states "he creates animated GIFS unlike any we've seen". It wasn't only his talent that attracted my attention, but the works he put together, and how they made me feel. It feels very different to relate to a short video made out of 7-15 images, compared to a photo or video in this industry.
I was attracted to Micael Reynaud’s work because it used
photographs/videos rather than illustrations.He refers to his creations as “hypnotic very short films.”I found this not only true when watching the
GIFS, but a relatable statement as well.A short film still tells a story and had me thinking of how we’ve have
been pushing ourselves in our own work to produce a whole story with one or
very few images.
Some more of his work are featured in this article:
INSA work caught my attention because at first it did appear
to be a combination of illustrations on top of a photograph, which essentially yes,
it is.However, the animated portion of
the GIF is his own real-world murals.I
found this amazing and an interesting concept of taking your artwork one step further.The video link below GIF shows how the artist created
this world’s largest animated GIF (if anyone is interested.)It
was photographed by satellite 400 miles away and covered 57, 515 square meters
of ground space.
I chose David Rokeby for my first new media artist because as I was scrolling through and trying to find an artist, I came across a video of his called "Very Nervous System" and he's standing in front of a computer that observes the physical gestures of human bodies through a video camera and then translates them into an improvised music directly related to the qualities of the movements themselves in real-time which I found to be really interesting. The video is linked below.
I chose her for my second artist because she has a work titled "Room of One's Own" where she has the viewer look into a little box which displays a little television set and in the little room, there is a woman that asks the viewer why you're looking at her. The viewer can also see themselves looking through the viewer so the woman is looking at you, looking at her. Slightly confusing to explain but it's a really interesting piece.
For this first piece, it took a bit of searching to find something that I could just find interest in, and in general, find a timelapse that actually told a story.
This timelapse is vividly made in the vision of the photographer's experience, on his memories that he cherishes, and the reason why he became a photographer. When I first watched it, I had only glimpsed at the description, as I was looking at something that I could just grab and mess with and add comments to. Yet, as I watched the timelapse, I felt at peace, distracted by all the lights, and it was just a simple video. After reading the description halfway through the timelapse, the feeling that the photographer wanted to capture came to life in my own mind.
"Liberty" is a ten-minute timelapse of the busyness in New York. "From the sensory overload of standing on a busy New York street corner. To the tranquility of standing on a skyscraper, like being on top of the world. This is a dedication to my favorite city in the world". Michael Shainblum has pushed himself to be the best he could be, he showed this in this timelapse.
Simply enough, this reminded me of the usage of drones when flying over a city or a town, it shows you a glimpse of what it is and what the town may be like, yet here, this video showed and gave a feeling of what the city truly feels like.
This second piece may be considered a little childish, yet it's still enjoyable to see it all come together.
This stop motion piece is one that is very cute and holds a reasonable story; the creation of these videos can take a while to come together, and it's very interesting to see how they are created. Through Disney and other production companies, there are several stop motion movies that contain these types of stories. The artwork is put together, just like another piece, takes a storyline, especially for something of this nature. The storyline allows for it all to fall into place and capture the viewer. When it is being put together, it plays out in a way that not many know about, a look into this art is one that an individual might find interesting if going into the movie or videography field.
"Fishwitch", as mentioned earlier is a stop-motion animated fairytale from the National Film and Television School and tells the story of an iceberg-dwelling witch who is taken by surprise when a merman gets caught in her net and attempts to befriend her. There is then a secret uncovered which had been kept buried long in the ice.
Overall, this stop-motion was very intriguing to watch and see the details that were involved with each frame.
FISHWITCH | A Magical Love Story Stop-Motion Animation Short Film
I found this conceptual video directed by Martyna Iwanska interesting.I found myself in a state of mixed emotions
while trying to decipher the intentions of the artist. The words quoted towards the beginning to give
some insight, “shape without form, shade without color, paralyzed force, gesture
without motion…. There are moments of peacefulness yet haunting and even some
that just were weird, but fascinating.I
purposely didn’t read the accompanying paragraph till afterwards, but instantly
found closer than I realize what the artist had created:
"Passion White" strives to achieve austerity, simplification of form and mathematical precision. It is an attempt at finding out if it is possible to create realistic tension in a sterile, minimalistic space resembling a white canvas. Each frame represents separate micro world, which carries primary, raw emotions. Unhurried pictures and perverse repetition of sounds are set out to engage the viewer in a specific dreamy state of hypnosis.
"When we pass by landscapes they appear fixed in time but they change around us constantly. Singapore has gone through an incredible change over the past 8 years, and I have tried to capture as much of this change as possible. There are no permanent cameras used in this film, it required regular site visits over 988 shoot days and over 3300 matched shots." - accompanying description with video.
This time lapse titled "Lion City Rising" by Keith Loutit is fascinating to watch. It is memorizing to see the erection of these buildings and how the change of the city scape appears to change so quickly, compared to the reality that it seems to take forever. I appreciate the artist's dedication to the project in how he revisited the sites regularly to capture the images.
Greta suggested I look up this photographer and I'm glad I did. Duane creates narrative within a series of photos in which I find fascinating. He does this by blending images with text in a format similar to cinematic sequences. I like setting up narratives and playing around with the setting so it was really interesting to see some of his work.
Photographer 8: Billy Hickey
Since Duane is mostly known for his narrative photography, I wanted my second photographer to be a narrative photographer as well. Billy Hickey is a documentary and conservation photographer and his work focuses on stories that take place where humans and nature collide. I think the lighting and composition really work in his photos and I like the set up.
Alejandro Chaskielberg is a photographer from Bueno Aires. Alejandro usually works in documentary photography and has experience with Cinematography. He's become known for creating intriguing compositions that blend art and nature. He was awarded World Photographer in 2011. For his project "NATUR-E" he relocated with his family to live in the Wilderness of Bueno Aires when the pandemic hit, to forge a deeper relationship with nature.
Kate Breakey is a nature photographer from Southern Australia. She has currently based in Tucson Arizona. She is most known for her large hand-colored portraits of birds. For her series "Creatures of Light and Darkness", she focused on using an infrared camera to capture animal's movement at night. For the project, she set the camera up in her backyard at her home in Tucson.
When I saw his photos, it took me a little bit to comprehend the subject matter of it all; After reading the introduction, which was actually short compared to what I have seen and read, it was nice to have and relate it to his work. His images soon reminded me of the series 'Human of New York' and it summed up what I wanted to capture, however, capturing the opposite. Wagener's introduction to this series makes you really study the images he has to share and grants a look into different places around the world, as well as each individual's culture and how it all relates to each other.
With an ongoing series to document the differences to captures these communities, Sara Ferguson captures the different entities of what these communities truly expire to outsiders. She captures the feelings and definition of what the place means and shows the differences along the way compared to the other cities and towns she has traveled to. In her introduction, she explains that in some of her images you can see the growth taking place, yet in others, you can see the distancing and the sinking of what the town or city once was. What she has captured, the different feelings and essence of each of the places she has been, and how they have their own separate feelings and story is what I wish to capture.
David Benjamin Sherry is an American Photographer who focuses on American West landscape photography. In his works he seeks to address conversations around queer identity and environmentalism. His works is best known for his colorful landscapes. In his project American Monuments, he explored various unvisited places in the America west and photographed them. He decided to do this after Trump started revoking various land protections. Sherry has to invoke emotions due to his color choices and conversations about the environment.
Terri Loewenthal is also a landscape photographer based in Oakland. Terri seeks to examine landscape and psyche. In her work Terri create psychescapes that use single exposure that require special optics. Terri refers to the pictures as psychedelics, to experience them is to be free.
