Exploring some new ideas related to the stuff I did for the PornAgain show, specifically trying to deal with some of the parameters important in digital art. Nathanial’s formulation of Compressionist work relates to these in terms of fucking around with the recording process, usually recording aims to be consistent and accurate, he screws that up big time by re-establishing the influence of the artist’s manual control of that process.
Perhaps because I’m lazy, my focus has been on the editing process. Having said that I think in a loosely defined sense the works I did for PornAgain probably would only very loosely be classified as Compressionist works since they didn’t record my physical environment but rather the cyber environment. In them the manual influence was achieved by the terms I chose to enter into Google’s advanced image search functionality, and then manually filtering how much of each image to filter and place in the layered superimpositions.
I did another two studies in this series last night (this one based on searches for ‘bdsm’ and the one thumbnailed at the start of this post using the search term ‘Facial’ (with safe search turned off – don’t try this unless you know what you are letting yourself in for), then turned the process back onto some of my own photographic material and created what I think is the rather awesome Navel Gazing, closer to Compressionist characteristics since based on the visual record of my personal environment, but still lacking some of the skilful-distortion ‘compression’ effect.
I’m not about to start throwing my camera around though my scanner has been acting up latetely and I may just hack it apart. What has occurred to me is to investigate the stereoscopic vision effect by carefully constructing superimposed images using sets of multiple angle photographs of the same scene, thus using a recording technique similar to that used to create the Matrix ‘bullet-time’ sequences, (thank got the popularity of ill-executed versions of these in mainstream advertising seems to finally have subdued – or is it just that I don’t watch mainstream entertainment anymore?)
digital Compressionist studies
Exploring some new ideas related to the stuff I did for the PornAgain show, specifically trying to deal with some of the parameters important in digital art. Nathanial’s formulation of Compressionist work relates to these in terms of fucking around with the recording process, usually recording aims to be consistent and accurate, he screws that up big time by re-establishing the influence of the artist’s manual control of that process.
Perhaps because I’m lazy, my focus has been on the editing process. Having said that I think in a loosely defined sense the works I did for PornAgain probably would only very loosely be classified as Compressionist works since they didn’t record my physical environment but rather the cyber environment. In them the manual influence was achieved by the terms I chose to enter into Google’s advanced image search functionality, and then manually filtering how much of each image to filter and place in the layered superimpositions.
I did another two studies in this series last night (this one based on searches for ‘bdsm’ and the one thumbnailed at the start of this post using the search term ‘Facial’ (with safe search turned off – don’t try this unless you know what you are letting yourself in for), then turned the process back onto some of my own photographic material and created what I think is the rather awesome Navel Gazing, closer to Compressionist characteristics since based on the visual record of my personal environment, but still lacking some of the skilful-distortion ‘compression’ effect.
I’m not about to start throwing my camera around though my scanner has been acting up latetely and I may just hack it apart. What has occurred to me is to investigate the stereoscopic vision effect by carefully constructing superimposed images using sets of multiple angle photographs of the same scene, thus using a recording technique similar to that used to create the Matrix ‘bullet-time’ sequences, (thank got the popularity of ill-executed versions of these in mainstream advertising seems to finally have subdued – or is it just that I don’t watch mainstream entertainment anymore?)