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works in Something Made Easy: 500X Gallery's Annual Open Invitational

Something Made Easy: 500X Gallery's Annual Open Invitational
May 10 - May 31, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 10, 6-10pm

"Big Hairy Bush II" from the hair particle system drawing project

My low brow political humor piece entitled "Big Hairy Bush II" recently made its way back from San Diego CA. It made it back just in time for the 500x annual open show where I dropped it off yesterday. I am looking forward to catching part of the reception where I can see people react to it.

I also entered the print version of the very popular "blue recursive". Oddly when I printed it at 13x19 out it felt off balance so I "hand" modified the print version of "blue recursive" slightly to give the print a better sense of balance. Hopefully the print version will be as popular as the internet version getting passed around on various math art sites. .

"Blue Recursive" 1/10 printed version, get yours at 500x gallery for $100 woohoo!

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Cystic Fibrosis Benefit show at Dada

I will have some art in the silent auction for this benefit. Get it on the cheap! See some great local music as well.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Rebecca Dixon
rebecd@verizon.net or dynagirlmgmt@verizon.net
Tele: 972-964-2220 / Cell: 469-450-5268
http://www.myspace.com/ultraviolet_rockforcf

ULTRAVIOLET BRINGS LOCAL BANDS AND ARTISTS TOGETHER TO FIGHT RARE GENETIC DISEASE
Concert, Compilation CD and Art Show to Raise Money for Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

DALLAS TX – APRIL 17, 2008 – Local bands and artists are using their talents to take a stand against the rare disease, Cystic Fibrosis.
On the evening of Saturday, April 26, eight bands will take the stage at Club Dada in Dallas for The UltraViolet Rock Show benefit concert and art auction.

The date will also mark the release of UltraViolet, a CD compilation featuring 21 tracks from Sebadoh, Deep Blue Something, Tim DeLaughter (The Polyphonic Spree), Baboon, all artists performing and more. Many of the tracks are previously unreleased or brand new for the compilation. Thanks to the donation of manufacturing from Crystal Clear and Sam Paulos, all proceeds from the sale of the CD will go direct to the CF Foundation.

Suggested cover is $5 and the line-up includes El Gato, Lovie, Wonderfool, Bridges and Blinking Lights, Sunward, The Felons, Blue Petal, disconnected in ‘73.

The cause is personal for Kirk Dixon (El Gato) and Rebecca Dixon (Lovie). Their youngest daughter, Violet, was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis when she was a toddler. “The research being done by The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation is helping improve the lives and the outlook for CF patients like Violet,” says Rebecca Dixon. “The CF Foundation has already made such an impact in the quality of Violet’s life, we wanted to gather our friends from the local music and art communities to support The Foundation’s work.”

Along with the live music, The UltraViolet Rock Show will feature an auction of paintings and photography from nearly 20 local artists including Ange Fitzgerald, Erica Fellicella, Frank Campagna and Fred Holston.

And what’s a good party without take home goodies? You can commemorate the evening in Hal Samples’ Cash-And-Carry Photo Booth.

The show will be the first time that the UltraViolet CD will be available for purchase. A complete track listing for the CD can be viewed at http://www.myspace.com/ultraviolet_rockforcf.

In 2007, the inaugural UltraViolet event raised $10,000 for The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Please join us as we come together for a good time in the name of supporting a worthy cause.

If you’d like more information about this topic, or to schedule an interview with Kirk or Rebecca, please call at 972-964-2220 or e-mail to rebecd@verizon.net

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Buddy Rivers Live by Dave Miller

Dave Miller is doing an automatic comedian live performance. Details are on his blog check it out. This looks like a lot of fun, he has some AI set up to act as a comedian and hecklers. There will be a live webcast too.

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new reconstruction algorithm

I have been busy creating a lot of new things. I stumbled into a digital photo reconstruction algorithm completely by accident while writing some code to recursively subdivide space. I had the honor of being in a show last year with Rusty Scruby who is focused in the reconstruction space, if I had not seen what Rusty has been doing I may not have know what I stumbled into. Rusty has created his own custom software to perform his reconstructions and his work is fantastic. You should check it out.

I took the algorithm I found and I have now created a crude tool to explore photo and video reconstructions. I am still putting together a page of these new works but the general exploration is around naturally occurring mathematical forms like Lindenmayer Systems and fractal patterns.

I go out with my camera ( and the kids ) looking for interesting forms in nature, the more I explore the more I get a sense of what will create a nice visual flow and sense of motion when the image is reconstructed. Below are some samples of the output.

IO Moth Reconstruction

I found this IO Moth while doing some gardening with the kids in the front yard. It made a really nice reconstruction. I printed this one out on a 13x19 sheet of watercolor paper. It looks really nice. Prints 2-5 of 5 are available for anyone interested.

Yellow Tree Reconstruction

This is our neighbor's tree. I also printed this one out on a 13x19 sheet of watercolor paper. Prints 2-5 of 5 are available.

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Chris Jordan -- Running the Numbers

Running the Numbers
An American Self-Portrait  
 
This series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics.

Plastic Cups, 2008
60x90"
Depicts one million plastic cups, the number used on airline flights in the US every six hours.

You just have to see the project at his web site. http://www.chrisjordan.com/. Chris prints these out huge, they must be amazing to see in person.

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Toddler Sleeps, eats and avoids falling over all at once



This happened earlier today while shopping with the family at Ikea. Too funny not to share.

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Math and Art at Axiom Gallery in Boston

/// Axiom Gallery
/// March 14 through April 27, 2008
/// Opening reception: Friday, March 14th, 6-9pm

Cantor Set (fried egg) by Kevin Van Aelst, 2004, digital c-print, each 16 x 20

/// Co-Curated by Axiom Gallery Founding Director, Heidi Kayser, and The Boston Cyberarts Festival Executive Director, George Fifeild, and advised by Director of the Clay Mathematics Institute, Jim Carlson, Art and Math explores the artists use of mathematical concepts in sculpture, photography, and new media. The show will also examine how, through the use of mathematical thought artist can make the journey from awe to beauty to humor.

/// Math and Art features works by: Bathsheba Grossman, J. Michael James, Keith Peters, Nathan Selikoff, and Kevin Van Aelst

/// Axiom Gallery Hours: Wednesday, Thursday 6-9pm - Saturday, 2-5pm, or by appointment.

/// For more information please call 617.953.6413

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Glitch on SNL by powerbeezus

A buddy of mine, aka powerbeezus on flickr took this amazing photo of amazing glitch proportions during a broadcast of Saturday Night Live on his HD tv. I can't wait to get an HD tv and HD service if it glitches out like this. This picture is incredible.

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And/Or Show #15: Marisa Olson + Christine Gedeon

And/Or Show #15: Marisa Olson + Christine Gedeon reception Saturday, March 8th, 6pm-9pm with both artists in attendance music by circuit-bender group Animal Forces @ 8:30pm Marisa Olson is a media artist, critic, and curator who has collaborated with SFMOMA, the Whitney Museum, White Columns, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Inspired by her private life, Marisa Olson's work uses technology to explore music fansination, Internet culture, and contemporary consciousness. Christine Gedeon uses blue prints to create aerial compositions of political figures and celebrities. This abstract format brings a new sense of reality to publicized images of political and public figures. Christine has exhibited at A.I.R. Gallery in New York and The New Art Center of New York. This exhibition runs through April 12th.

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Spar mangled banter on boombox.org

I found this mix while vanity googling, it has one my tracks Atomic which I had forgot about and one of my favorite Messian Dread tracks... the mix is political in theme with entertaining samples and free for the downloading...check it out!

Warvadal - Spar-Mangled Banter on http://www.b00mb0x.org/

Tracks…
Stealth Overture - Apollo 440
Presidential Address - Tryad
Noam Chomsky (Intro) - Bassnectar
American Military Operations (Remix) - Cat Five
Good Vs. Evil - Guerrilla News Network
War (If It Feels Good Do It) - Dj’s of Mass Destruction
Captain Scarlet Destroys The Terrorists - Dj Blue
Well Ard Guns (Mix) - Condition Human
Art And Protest - Post FixE
Liberation Radio - Lunatic Calm
Once Over - Quiet American
To The Teeth (Shoot Out Remix) - Ani Difranco
Dusty Boots And Dogtags - Ryan Harvey
War Progaganda (Irresistible Force Mix) - R.J. Marshall
Rastaman Chant (Ft. Busta Rhymes) - Bob Marley
Excerpt from the film Occupation 101 - Various
Seiksub - John Holowach
History Lesson - Boyd Rice & Friends
The World As a Company Town - Greg Palast & Ed Edner
Skin on the Drum - Michael Franti & Spearhead
Spread the Love - Lazy Boy
Atomic - Don Relyea
Psychotronix - Messian Dread
Colours - Anima Sound System
Political State - Unknown
Foreign Objects - Dirty Elegance
Ah! Terror (Excerpts) from the film Embedded - Various
Abu Ghrub - Deadbeat
Masters of War - Bob Dylan
Whose Money - Fila Brazillia
The Voice 0f Safety Speaking - Lyndon Lorenz
The Price of Oil - Noise Collector
Media (Neutral Mix) - Kayne West
War Is Over - Double Beat
End Credits from the film The Tripper - Various

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Using xvi32 to perform image destructions

Dick Cheney meets XVI32

Since I have been enlightened to the finer aspects of glitch imagery after discovering how nice my cable tv could look by accident; I downloaded a hex editor and started messing up images on purpose.

I have been using XVI32 a freeware hex editor to slightly modify or even massively edit image files to yield really interesting results. I have had the best luck with smaller images and sporadic but sparing hex editing, I get really nice blocky 8 bit looking destructions of the image.

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Timothy Leary for President 08 - Question Everything


I stumbled past this poster while in San Diego on business...proof of cryogenics?

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Degeneration

Yozlaşma / Degeneration by Eser Aygün

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New audio visualizers in processing by Flight404

Solar, with lyrics. from flight404 on Vimeo.

Made with Processing. Audio by Goldfrapp ("Lovely Head" off her first album).

Working on a way to integrate lyrics into the visualizers. Read more about the process here...
flight404.com/blog/?p=111

Magnetic Ink, Process video from flight404 on Vimeo.

Made with Processing. Audio by Flashbulb ("In an Instant" from the album "Red Extensions Of Me") This is a time-based documentation of how the Magnetic Ink prints are created. The orbital vector is quite noticeable in this video. flight404.com/blog/?p=106
theflashbulb.net

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Glitch Art Photo Pool on Flickr

Well I uploaded all the photos from the ready made glitch art set to Flickr and joined the Glitch Art photo pool. There is some awesome stuff there. This fantastic photo is by user Luiza O. S. and while I do not entirely understand the language it appears to be a glitch from an error while loading from a CD-Rom.

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Ready Made Glitch Art

For some reason my cable signal this morning was totally jacked! I suspect poor network architecture is the cause but who cares... the result is fantastic ready made glitch art! When I went out to the den this morning and my kids were freaked out by what they were watching and righfully so.

The pink haired girl above is probably my favorite of the still photos of the glitched out video...

I kept seeing amazing accidental compositions happening out of the destroyed video signal and had to document some of it. My kids were watching Lazytown which is a wierd show anyways and when it is damaged it is even weirder.

Ready made Glitch video..38 seconds in is totally sick!

This eye peeking through the video distortion is pretty cool too. I put all the stills and videos on this page of ready made glitch art.

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Merce Death

Merce Death: Real Time Canon Test

Found this while checking out Chris Ashley's blog. As usual lots of nice new html drawings there and then this video. I had heard of Merce Death before but never taken the time to check him out until I saw this video on Chris's blog. It is cool check it out. He records himself with samplers and plays over them in real time. Nice work.

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30 Years at 500X February 9 - March 2

Your Favorite Artist was a Member: 30 Years at 500X February 9 - March 2, 2008  Reception: Friday, February 22, 5-10PM Panel Discussion: Wednesday, February 20, 6-8PM

This exhibition is a contemporary survey of the thirty-year history of 500X Gallery featuring the diverse works of both former and current gallery members.  Artists Will Hipps and Richard Childers founded the gallery in 1978 with a mission to create a collaborative environment dedicated to providing an exhibition space free of commercial restrictions.  Through the committment and enthusiasm of generations of artists, the mission of 500X Gallery continues to thrive.    500X Gallery will support this exhibition with a panel discussion addressing the topic: The Viability and Necessity of Artist-Run Spaces  Panel Members: Will Hipps, Associate Professor of Art & Museum/Galleries Director,     Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA & Co-founder of 500X GalleryBen Hirschkoff, Artist/Member, SOIL, Seattle, WA Cynthia Mulcahy, Owner/Director, Mulcahy Modern, Dallas, TX Shannon Stratton, Director/Chief Curator, Three Walls, Chicago, IL Dr. Jennifer Way, Associate Professor of Art History, University of North   Texas, Denton, TXModerator: Noah Simblist, Artist & Assistant Professor of Art, Southern   Methodist University, Dallas, TX

Exhibiting artists: Frances Bagley . Brennen Bechtol . Iris Bustillos Bechtol . Paul Booker  Nancy Brown . Jim Burton . Richard Childers . Steve Cruz . Brad Cushman Curtis Jackson Davis . Dorothy Duvall . Celia Eberle . Vincent Falsetta Garland Fielder . Randall Garrett . Will Hipps . Mirka Hokkanen Clint Imboden . Simeen Ishaque . John Oliver Lewis . Natalie Macellaio Sarah Maxwell-English . Robert McAn . Jessica McCambly . Tina Medina Greg Metz . Rosemary Meza-DesPlas . Trish Nickell . Mary Nicolett Nic Nicosia . Tom Orr . Jennifer Pepper . Steven Price . Lesli Robertson Jen Rose . Tony Schraufnagel . Diane Sikes . Tom Sime . Charlotte Smith Brian Spolans . Shannon Sullivan . Takako Tanabe . Don Taylor . Erik Tosten . Veronica De Anda Tosten . Tara Welch . David Willburn . Vance Wingate

The Members Gallery Features Associate Members: Tim Best . Eric Blake . Keri Oldham Harmony Padgett . Polly Perez . Aqsa Shakil   Reception features music by DJ Jeff Ross

500X Gallery 500 Exposition Avenue Dallas, TX 75226 Sat / Sun 12-5PM 214.828.1111 . 500x.org                        1978 - 2008 30 Years of Promoting Emerging Texas Artists Support your local art scene!

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Chinese New Year in Shanghai

My friend Alex on the last leg of his world tour / vacation stopped in Shanghai for Chinese new year. Clearly there are no laws governing the use of fireworks over there and no one is concerned for anyones personal safety. It is awesome!

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generative 3d slit scan experiments

These images were created using a digital slitscan process. I wrote a program that generates several groups of 3d primitives. The separate groups of primitives are rotated in slightly different directions slowly while every frame of rotation a column of pixels is sampled from the middle of the image and used to make a picture. The resulting images are an explosion of twisted volumetric shapes.

See the project page Generative 3d Slit Scan Experiments for 30 or so images like the ones shown in this post.

Here is a 38k low resolution shockwave demo you can play with!

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