The holy mountain, 1973
Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1929
Trailer for The Holy Mountain
donderdag 18 maart 2010
woensdag 17 maart 2010
Morton Heilig
was a thought-leader in Virtual Reality. He applied his cinematographer experience with the help of his partner developed the Sensorama over several years from 1957, patenting it in 1962.
dinsdag 16 maart 2010
Char Davies
Char Davies (1954) is an artist who creates artworks using the technologies of immersive virtual reality.
Originally a painter, Davies transitioned to digital media in the late-80s, becoming a founding director of the 3-D software company Softimage. New mediahistorians Frank Popper and Oliver Grau point out that her immersive virtual reality environment Osmose (1995) is a landmark work in the history of new media art.
donderdag 11 maart 2010
Joseph Nechvatal
He developed his concept of the viractual, which strives to create an interface between the biological and the virtual. It is central to Nechvatal’s work as an artist.
The basis of the viractual conception is that virtual producing computer technology has become a noteworthy means for making and understanding contemporary art and that this brings artists to a place where one finds the emerging of the computed (the virtual) with the uncomputed corporeal (the actual). This amalgamate — which tends to contradict some central techno clichés of our time - is what Nechvatal calls the viractual. Digitization is a key metaphor for viractuality in the sense that it is the elementary translating procedure today. Nechvatal thinks that in every era the attempt must be made anew to wrest the art practice away from conformisms that are about to overcome it.
Thorsten Fleisch
Kosmos [2004]
16mm, 5:11 minutes
16mm, 5:11 minutes
The mystery of the crystals under closer examination. What is it that makes them possess magic powers as claimed by mystics of all ages? Through growing crystals directly on film their mystical qualities shine straight to the screen. Unfiltered, only aided by light which gracefully breaks its rays into rich visual textures.
Thorsten Fleisch, 1972
donderdag 4 maart 2010
Mariko Mori
Mariko Mori, 1967
is a Japanese video and photographic artist. While studying at Bunka Fashion College, she worked as a fashion model in the late 1980s. This strongly influenced her early works, such as Play with Me, in which she takes control of her role in the image, becoming an exotic, alien creature in everyday scenes. In 1989, she moved to London to study at the Chelsea College of Art and Design.
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