[] low-fi update 16

[] low-fi update 16
[] http://www.low-fi.org.uk

[] guestlists: Armin Medosch on SHARE
Saul Albert on Generative Art / Software Art

[] low-fi list: net movies

[] http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/ [Adrian Miles]
[] http://www.neither-field.com/ok [Scott Pagano]
[] http://www.variablemedia.org/ [slateford]
[] http://193.197.170.79/portal/portal_new.htm [heide, pocock, stehle,
oneandzeros]
[] http://www.zombie-and-mummy.org [Lialina, Espenschied]
[] http://www.ljudmila.org/~vuk/ascii/film/ [Vuk Cosic]

A few recent gallery based installations have focused on ways of generating
video by incorporating digital structures which are common to the net:
databases; live webcam feeds; algorithms. However pieces like Thompson &
Craighead's 'Template Cinema' and Lev Manovich's 'Software Cinema' plus
elements from ZKM's 'Future Cinema' were designed for offline viewing. With
these in mind this low-fi selection looks at online developments which offer
alternatives to linear animation and streamed video.

Miles' 'vogs' are experimental pieces of QuickTime video incorporating text
and viewed through performative exploration. Some of these ponder the
potential for a 'televisual' equivalent for blogging, others offer
surprising results like 'Bergen Sky' in which fragments of video float with
controls to alter pixelation and speed for the video playback.

neither-field.com's 'ephemeral textures' are beautiful collaged fragments of
architectural video/stills layered and animated through Pagano's custom
processing tools. These abstracted compositions are based on urban imagery
but are also motivated by an interest in how things break down and 'the
byproducts of machine errors'.

slateford's 'os_anm' is online software that allows users to compose simple
animations directly coded using command line syntax and co-ordinates. The
resulting examples are very simple quirky black and white animations. This
project succeeds by engaging the user in the animation process. Showing them
the raw code that generates the animation.

'UNMOVIE' has two related parts: the 'stage' where [slightly irritating]
philosophically oriented bots chat with users; and the 'stream'
which is an endlessly generated stream of video fragments. The log from the
chat feeds into a 'hyperscript' which searches for, edits, and cuts found
video so that content streams threaded by keywords. The visually compelling
result often appears random but is underpinned by an equally compelling
logic.

'zombie-and-mummy' mix 'readymade' design, lo-fi animted gifs and cartoon
strip animation drawn on a palm as a form of commentary. Particularly
relevent here is their 'special report' on the Future Cinema show at ZKM.

Vuk Cosic's 'ascii films' predate broadband which most of the project above
benefit from. These seductive glitchy fragments of film cult classics are
rendered in animated ascii - green characters on black. Using text as a
tonal device. The ascii films explore the boundaries of recognition as
images are broken down and reinvented to suit delivery on the net.


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