Digital Music Video

http://animexeter.blogspot.com/

www (will's wonderful world of)

revised slides from

13 Feb 2010
Animated Exeter
New Canvas

Term used for early computer animation at previous event

during Animated Exeter. Greg Kurcewicz also curated "A
Beautiful Virus Inside the Machine" about Lillian Schwartz.

Could be

Visual Music

Expanded Cinema
Lillian Schwartz - A BEAUTIFIUL VIRUS INSIDE
THE MACHINE:

http://www.lumen.org.uk Shown in 2002

Films:
NEWTONIAN I, 1978, 4 mins, 16mm, colour
NEWTONIAN II, 1978, 5 mins 30 secs, 16mm, colour
MUTATIONS, 1974, 7 mins 30 secs, 16mm, colour
PIXILLATION, 1970, 4 mins, 16mm, colour
GOOGLEPLEX, 1972, 5 mins 30 secs, 16mm, colour & b/w
RITUEL, 1979, 30 mins, 16mm, colour
UFO’S, 1971, 3 mins, 16mm, colour
continues
Virus continued

METAMORPHOSIS, 1974, 8 mins 15 secs, 16mm, colour &

b/w
PICTURES FROM A GALLERY, 1976, 7 mins, 16mm, colour
THE ARTIST AND THE COMPUTER, 1976, 10 mins, 16mm,
colour
L’OISEAU, 1977, 4 mins, 16mm, colour
ALAE, 1975, 5 mins, 16mm, colour
APOTHEOSIS, 1973, 4 mins 30 secs, 16mm, colour
PAPILLIONS, 1974, 4 mins, 16mm, colour
INNOCENCE, 1973, 2 mins 30 secs, 16mm, colour
ENIGMA, 1972, 4 mins 20 secs, 16mm, colour & b/w
New Canvas
1.Poemfield # 2 Stan Vanderbeek and Kenneth Knowlton 1966
USA 6 min
2.Cibernetik 5.3 John Stehura
1965-69 USA 16mm Colour 8
min
3.Hummingbird Charles Csuri
1967 USA B/W 10 min
4. The Flexipede Tony Pritchett 1968 UK 2
min
http://animaland-ecotone.blogspot.com/2008/09/flexipede.htmlcotone.blogspot.
com/2008/09/flexipede.html
5.Permutations John Whitney
1966 USA 8 min
6.Olympiad Lillian Schwartz 1971
USA 2:35 min
Music: Max Mathews

7.Two Space Larry Cuba 1979

USA 8 min
Center For Visual Music
On Curating Recent Digital Abstract Visual Music
By Jack Ox and Cindy Keefer

New York Digital Salon & Abstract Visual

Music
Show in 2005 some video online

Visual Music is not always digital.

_grau | Robert Seidel | HD

http://2minds.de/grau.9.0.html
www.centerforvisualmusic.org
Online store for
DVDs and an
archive with the
world's largest
collection of
resources on
visual music,
including
historical work on
film and new
contemporary
digital work.
Expanded Cinema
Book by Gene
Youngblood, 1970
Summary in Wikipedia
Colour plates and book as PDF
download

Part Four
CYBERNETIC CINEMA AND
COMPUTER FILMS
So "New Canvas" still useful term. to describe
what was shown previously during Animated
Exeter

Greg Kurcewicz website has text and video-

http://www.kurcewicz.co.uk

Extract follows from

The Cinematic Experience

On Feb 13th, showing of Overstimulation

http://www.kurcewicz.co.
uk/project/overstimulation/
We do not really need a new technology.
We have enough of it, even too much of
it, and only a few artists artist are
deploying it critically. In VJ-ing and much
“live, digital” cinema I see just software
and rarely communication. I am not
impressed with software, in the same
way that I am not simply impressed with
mediums of cds, mini discs or even vinyl
records.
Digital technology opens up a whole new archive of
material for artists but it is a leveller of images.
Whereas we might all have many differences
culturally, and many different cultural reference points,
we do have one thing in common: our nervous
system. To get into a situation where we are
questioning our perception is in fact a great
commonality, one that is achieved in many
experimental films. To return our view to the real world
is a breakthrough for us at this moment in time. To re-
discover the act of looking and a space for looking at
something is a crucial and political act to undertake for
artists.
demoscene

Ruairi Fullan will be there so I just need to introduce this and

hope it relates ok to other content.

http://www.sundowndemoparty.org/

There is a book in PDF form for download, but not free...

http://www.demoscenebook.com/

Discussion on copyright etc. later depending on timings.

@party
Special notice to all the readers:
We do not want to be a videogame.
We don't want to be an art movie either.
We are just kickin it DEMOSTYLE.
-- from Re-recycle by Fairlight
Related material
A Silent KeyJason Scott describes interviewing an
oldskool ham who had an archive of telegraph art.
Oskar Fischinger (Wikipedia)
Mary Ellen Bute (Wikipedia)
John Whitney (Wikipedia)
"Analog Demo Scene: Get Real" (a humorous short film)

Please feel free to suggest additional resources

Suggested additional resources

Pages at Center for Visual Music

Oskar Fischinger
Mary Ellen Bute

Additional information, not in Wikipedia

Section on demoscene included
Tesla by Sunflower
Digital Music Video

Examples of digital video made for music.

This one will be shown. DVD
version has arrived. The title is
EUCLIDEAN music Steve
Jolliffe, animation Paul Gillard
Copyright

Discussion as time is available. Some recent work is widely

available online. Early content not so easy to find so is not as
well known as could be.

What options?

How to finance a future occasion? If tickets sold, what scale?

For example, the Black Box 50 seats x £3

What is distributed in the UK within this sort of budget?

Decode

Code
Interactive
Networked

Copyright /
Marketing

Gallery
Kinetic Animation
Shown early evening

May be a new term when the selection is

repeated ( see list on final slides)
Games aspect
Layered video,
mixing animation and performance. What
possibilities?

Discussion could continue during

Vibraphonic

Meanwhile, from Breakpoint

Kinetic Animation, work shown

6 Weeks in June , Stuart Hilton UK 1998

3 Ways to Go, Sarah Cox UK 1997
Magnetic Movie, Semiconductor UK 2007
Silence Moves, Shay Hamias UK 2002
Virus, Robert Proch Poland 2008
Battements Solaires, Patrick Bokanowski France
2007
Stressed, Karen Kelly UK 1995
Flying Fur, George Griffin USA 1981
Clocks, Kirsten Winter Germany 1995
Sunset Strip, Kayla Parker UK 1996
Triangle, Erica Russell UK 1994

Programmed by Jayne Pilling