Projection Design

“Projection Design” offers a hands-on approach to the design, planning and execution of digital projections in a variety of performance spaces by using a combination of industry standard and open source research software tools. This blog will serve as an online text for the developing book, "Technical Ecstasy" and link for the web-readings, online tutorials,software resources historical examples, video art and performance examples and essential class communications for Projection Design class taught by Patrick Pagano

Sunday, September 21, 2014

Artistic Scintillantion

Stan Brakhage:Black Ice, Mothlight, The Dante Quartet
Len Lye: A Colour Box, Tusalava, Trade Tattoo, Rainbow Dance
Otto Fischinger: Early Abstraction
Man-Ray: Le Retour A La Raison(The Return To Reason),fotógrafo

When I was watching those artist's works on the YouTube, my thoughts experienced this kind of transition: Firstly, "What's that?" then, "How to achieve them?" finally, "That was amazing!"

I have never seen this sort of artwork before, the twisty spiral, the abstractive image, and the jumping hue and the dancing light, all of them mixed together vividly and freely. Those artists  grasped the power of artistic expression intellectually and emotionally, and these artwork could also provide some instruction for our modern digital projection. Imagining 50 years ago, these artists have already defined and captured their enamoured elements into video design successfully.  My favourite design is Otto Fischinger's Early Abstraction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrZxw1Jb9vA
Multiple rectangles and circles transformed, changed and combined in that work, like modern graphic design,  and the colour was brilliant and gorgeous. You could do sense the vitality of these colourful  elements and the charm of artistic language.

Digital Projection as a combination of audio and video art, simply, is supposed to be oriented by audience's visual and auditory appetite, by defining and experiencing its texture, colour, character and light referring to the instant flavour, but just like these artists what they have done half century ago, try something imaginative and even quaint. Because I know some of artists' creation weren't admitted by public at their time nevertheless time will always tell us that even a little adventurous attempt might have a possibility to be a huge surprise after next half century, so what we do in our modern digital design should not only focus on the technology but also concern about the idea. After that, you can get closely to the artistic scintillation like them,

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