Doug Foster

Posted by Fabio 30 April 2012

Doug Foster has long been fascinated by the intricacy of the human visual system and how it can be fooled by optical illusion. In 1981 he built a walk-in film installation for his degree show that used projected imagery and large mirrors to incorporate its viewers into an infinite panorama. read more

Lillian Schwartz-The Artist and the Computer

Posted by Fabio 26 April 2012

1976 documentary about Lillian Schwartz’s work with computers and features excerpts from several of her films. Lillian Schwartz is best known for her pioneering work in the use of computers for what has since become known as computer-generated art and computer-aided art analysis, read more

An Evening with Focus Creeps

Posted by Fabio 23 April 2012

FRIEND & Rough Trade are screening music videos by LA-based directing duo Focus Creeps at Rough Trade East tomorrow from 7-9PM. Having just finished promos for Django Django and Arctic Monkeys, these guys are truly one of the most exciting directors out there. Accompanied by NTS Radio Djs, this is sure to be a great evening.

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Soda_Jerk

Posted by Fabio 23 April 2012

Soda_Jerk is a two-person art collective based in Berlin. For the last decade they have been working with audiovisual samples to create speculative narratives that trouble existing formulations of history, culture and politics. In their work, dominant accounts of cultural history are approached as semi-fictional mythologies that attempt to colonise and control the future. read more

Jordan Bruner

Posted by Fabio 19 April 2012

Jordan is an artist, illustrator and filmmaker who trained in Kinetic Imaging (video, animation and sound, VCU) and is currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Jordan’s early interests were illustration and film making. read more

The ultimate solution for aerial cinematography

Posted by Fabio 18 April 2012

Schiebel’s Camcopter S-100 UAS integrated with Cineflex is the ultimate gyro-stabilized solution for aerial cinematography. The Cineflex is a multi-axis coordinated gimbal control system that provides layered isolation, steering, and fine correctional movements to stabilize a wide selection of precision optics to a sub-pixel level. read more

Demoscene – The Art of the Algorithms

Posted by Fabio 17 April 2012

In the 1980’s, something changed the world forever. Computer technology, mostly due to the appearance of affordable Commodore 64’s, entered households worldwide, providing the opportunity for everyone to create digital art. But existing art forms weren’t the only ones to be re-implemented on these computers; brand new forms of art also appeared, ones thought to be impossible up to that point. read more

Petra Cortright

Posted by Fabio 16 April 2012

Petra Cortright is a Santa Barbara, California based Internet artist. She studied at Parsons The New School for Design in New York and California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Her work has been shown at the New Museum in New York, the Venice Biennale and the 2010 01SJ Biennial in San Jose, California. read more