Posted On : February 14th, 2010 by hoon
Weakshot
Caramel
Both these abstract montages use some screen snaps from my Dreamlines experiment, and other materials that include an old photo of me and a bud from a long time ago, used in Weak Shot. Weakshot also uses some news photos of the failed Russian missile test that spooked Scandinavia for a day last month–thus the title.
Posted On : February 7th, 2010 by hoon
The Talk
Untitled Texture
Moi
These are screen captures from Leonardo Solaas’s Dreamlines.
Dreamlines is an art generator that uses search terms entered by the user.
Over at nogutsnoglory studios I have melded a 20 minute ‘generation’ with an outtake from recording sessions done for the Kamelmauz recording last year, Slidemare. There you will find a little more explanation about the specifics of the video, titled Quark.
Since the creative instigation is a simple user input and the animated product manifests as a result of visionary programming, lots of questions are raised about the status of the ensuing art. The instigator doesn’t earn much credit, except it’s up to the instigator to capture or otherwise appropriate the product. Otherwise the results are truly ephemeral.
The captures above, and the video too, are forms of mechanical-graphical kitsch. Still, if you operate Solaas’s generator you may find yourself wanting to retain what appears to be artistic ‘production.’
Posted On : December 18th, 2009 by hoon
Just out of the black hole.
Posted On : November 2nd, 2009 by hoon
Playing playfully under the pseudonym Kamelmauz, I have made available as both streaming mp3s and downloadable Apple lossless, a new recording of experimental dark ambient music, Slidemare. It’s basically a proof-of-concept-record: how to render sound worlds using steel guitars run through effects chains. Verdict? Although I lashed the record together in two months, using materials recorded over four years, the sonic directions some of these sound worlds represent will get more rigorous attention in the near future.
Kamelmauz’s earlier record, In Khorasan, is available as a stream too.
Here’s a taste; the closer, Carapice J, dedicated to Neil Young.
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10. Carapice-J
Posted On : October 27th, 2009 by hoon
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Posted On : October 23rd, 2009 by hoon
Worship At the Beginning
Sorting computer files, I found the last part of my five part assemblage.
Here’s the full piece. If you click on it it will open up a lightbox enlargement. (The close-button is in the lower right.)
I suppose for the time being, or maybe for forever, it’s title shall be Untitled Quinttych. The actual individual assemblages are 3″ x 3″, so the computer screen offers the best view. Each provides a kind of ‘where’s Waldo’ exercise because there’s a lot of things hidden in the layers.
From the top:
Ancient Hunt
Virgin Meeting
Sitting In Konya
Dancing For All
Worship At the Beginning
Sorting through piles of files, I came across an unfinished digital collage. Giving the three layers some attention, I cranked out a new piece.
Title: Tree of Life and Death and Life
Posted On : August 6th, 2009 by hoon
Dub Collison mix – Family Blessing
Jazz. Downloadable with a streaming taste. enjoy
I refashioned the cover for the mix into some more naive! art.
Posted On : July 16th, 2009 by hoon
 Gambling |
 Genius |
 Epiphany I. |
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click on images for large version – More ‘original’ web generated art from the Galanis generator. ‘Original’ is qualified: this is my art but its only due to the willingness to appropriate, my intuition, patience, and some idea about what kind of heuristics may be employed to guide the otherwise random generator’s productive algorhythms. Also, I’m using Photoshop to configure frames and adjust color parameters.
Posted On : June 28th, 2009 by hoon
(july 1:09) Another piece, Kalis, and explanation at netdynam.org.