donderdag 18 maart 2010

Alejandro Jodorowsky


The holy mountain, 1973

Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1929

Trailer for The Holy Mountain

woensdag 17 maart 2010

Tarik Barri




II by Tarik Barri


Morton Heilig






Morton Heilig (1926 - 1997)
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.


Charles Avery


Installation view of 'Charles Avery, The Islanders - An Introduction: Part III':

The Place of the Route of the If'en



Charles Avery, 1973

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

Driessen en Verstappen

Sandbox (movie)

Erwin Driessens, Wessem 22-02-1963
Maria Verstappen, Someren 16-12-1964

Joseph Nechvatal



Joseph Nechvatal,
1951

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.