MEFT 3102

Here’s another interesting video – an “Amoeba Dance” produced live in a VJ package (VDMX), using Quartz Composer, audio analysis and some effects. The status of this image of course lies somewhere between new forms of design, new images, the generative, cross-signal processing, living coding and the impact of the digital – that’s before you get the question of this an an “artificial” life form, exploring it’s own virtuality across these domains.

So it’s a kind of an emblem of the last 3-4 weeks of the course.

More info here …

Amoeba Dance from Memo Akten on Vimeo.

I’m posting some interesting visuals for week 9 on …

electronic night from Rocco Helmchen on Vimeo.

Particle Engine w/ shaders from flight404 on Vimeo.

Accidental sunflower. from flight404 on Vimeo.

Here’s an interesting new music video by Grace Jones. You can also read a very interesting discussion of it on Steven Shaviro’s blog (this is one of the most interesting “theory” blogs around).

Obscure tip from the early 1980s – listen to Grace Jones “Slave to the Rhythm” 45 at 33rpm, if you can find the vinyl around somewhere.