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, November 16, 2014

Avant-garde artist with digital technology

After viewing multiple Bjork and Matthew Barney's artworks I found that avant-garde artists normally could follow the steps of digital technology. Because when they need to achieve their weird effects, digital technology is a  good resource for them to rely on. Unique colour, sharp-cut theme, reshaped objects and unrestricted style, audience view them as avant-garde is largely determined by that they're unfamiliar with artists' magic technology. Of course, this not equals to that people who knows technology could creative them as well.

One of Bjork's was impressed on my heart which called Hyper ballad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26sP2WsA5cY
Bjork is lying on a digital projection screen with her eyes closed, then another Bjork projects on the former one, with her eyes opened and singing crazily. Multiple overlapped digital layers intwine with each other rhythmically, which draws a split situation for our viewers.
This is also could be interpreted as an excellent digital projection's application in art, I really like it.


Matthew Barney's works I think are a little bit bloody and irascible just as what he said.
However, I have not to deny that his work sparks his endless intelligence and his thistly but valuable emotion. 


1 comment:

Hilary Cheren said...

I also watched videos by Björk. Check out my blog post on "Cocoon!"