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Sun, 28 Jun 2009
Slit Scan photo set uploaded to Flickr at Slit Scan Experiments
I have been taking HD video using an off the shelf Sony camera and post processing the video digitally to assemble slit scan panoramas. I am experimenting with driving around, water, my kids, sunsets, clouds, weather and anything I can think of that has the potential for interesting motion.
I'm also writing some software based on the slitscan work I did for the Archetime Conference that will turn my HP touchsmart laptop into a portable slitscan camera. It's a no brainer openframeworks project that I pretty much have done, I just need to get higher resolution web-cam connected to the computer and I will be all set.
I'll probably add some to this group on Flickr as well. There is a lot of interesting stuff going on there.
I have migrated my website in it's entirity to a new server with an unlimited hosting plan and it was pretty painless. So now I can resume posting as usual without having to delete old stuff, yea!
Sun, 14 Jun 2009
Alys Beach Digital Graffiti article in Art Digital Magazine
Well I can't believe it but I have stuffed my web server I have 3GB of space now all used up with art, music and content. I had to delete some old stuff just make this post. So I may be quiet for a week or so in order to move my hosting account to an unlimited space plan.
We went on vacation the other week and had a great time! I got some great footage of dolphins, jumping and flipping devil rays and some ok footage of the Alys Beach Digital Graffiti party we went to in Florida.
We had an awesome time at Alys Beach Digital graffiti party! MAX ETERNITY from Art Digital Magazine has published an article on my experiences there.
Sat, 13 Jun 2009
Motörhead - Ace of Spades - Songsmith Version
Microsoft songsmith has become somewhat of a phenomenon on the internet and most of what I have seen is pretty aweful. Songsmith uses algorithms to generate music for your vocals. But this is suprisingly not as aweful and pretty funny. Lemmie does a ballad, hmmm =)
June is going to be a busy month for me as far as video art goes. I will have stuff in NYC, Seoul Korea and Florida through most of June.
Video stills from Generative Flowers III by Don Relyea
Generative Flowers III in Digital Graffiti festival at Alys Beach Florida June 6th. Generative Flowers III is a computational piece and is intended to be a celebration of life. It draws flowers from gray scale alpha channels and then feeds back on itself. Environmentalist Mark Charneski contributed the magnificent flower photos and scans from which the alpha channels were extracted. Mark is with the Florida EPA.
The Generative Flowers III algorithm creates a mathematical variant of the Cantor Set. Flowers are also naturally occurring mathematical expressions and work very well with the Cantor Set effect. The geometric progression of the Cantor Set is symbolic to me of the natural progression of life
Systemic Sky and Generative Flowers II on display at the W Hotel Wu Bar in Downtown Seoul, Korea through Lee Wells [PAM] and Janet Oh Gallery. May through the end of June
Slit scan projects part of Archetime Conference NYC brought to you by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Tank Space for Performing & Visual Arts, and the NYC Future Salon June 4th-June18th
Sun, 10 May 2009
Hye and I were working on an installation proposal/proof of concept the other night for a slit scan video installation and got some cool pictures.
There are a several flavors of slit scan video that I am aware of, there is the kind like Zbig did back in the 80s, s where horizontal of vertical pixels of video are buffered and time displaced in some fashion so there is a time differential between the top and bottom of the video or between the left and right of the video as it plays. There is also the the more traditional variety that is similar to the original photographic process where columns or rows of pixels are scrolled vertically or horizontally.
What I am doing with this version is buffering the whole frame of video, while time is progressing from left to right we are making the horizontal slit position we are sampling variable and linking it to an fft making it audio reactive. This project is built in openframeworks. It is working really well and I will have to post a video of it soon.
This project will published as part of the Archetime Conference and Exhibition. The actual installation will happen at a later date some time in 2010 in NYC.
The conference is at:
THE TANK SPACE FOR PERFORMING AND VISUAL ARTS
354 West 45 th St., New York, NY, 10036
Conference: June 6 - 7, 2009
Exhibition: June 4 - 14, 2009
ArcheTime conference and art exhibition aims to foster critical discourse between artistic, academic and scientific thought on Time. We endeavor to examine and compare the various models of Time that have been suggested across disciplinary boundaries. We invite participants from these divergent disciplines to come together and share their visions of Time in the spirit of multi-disciplinary collaboration and the search for new perspectives.
Tue, 14 Apr 2009
evilcomputergenius + Blixaboy record listening party + Don Relyea's 40th!
This Saturday the 18th of April I am celebrating my 40th and the release of my new evilcomputergenius album with my old sub-tronic theatre buddy Mwanza aka Blixaboy.
The party is at the Whisky Bar on lower Greenville ave in Dallas TX. 8-11pm but will surely go until later but get there early to hear the new records. This event is open to the public so consider yourself invited!
If you are on Facebook you can rsvp to the event here:
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evilcomputergenius - theory of humanistic futility
Available now at these online stores: 
"1982 Worlds Fair PEZ Rare Astronaut B Blue Stem, 2009
Ink on Paper, 7x9" by Erik Dalzen
Erik writes on his web site..."Commodities is a collaborative project between me and spirited bidders. Art pieces are created based on specific marketable goods and cater to niche audiences of collectors and enthusiasts. The works are then exhibited on the auction website, eBay, under search terms that coincide with the vernacular from which each piece derives. Potential buyers may experience the thrill of shopping and the excitement of competition by vying against one another to win the art piece. The culminating action occurs at the close of each auction once rival bidders complete each piece by determining its value. "
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Erik's Project blog
Commodities is a great conceptual net art piece and fine example of how you don't need to be a technologist or extreme programmer(apologies to Erik if he is an extreme programmer) to create a very clever and well done net art project. I'll put my money where my blog is and bid on this one!
Mon, 23 Mar 2009
Twitter Mountains by Yann Le Guennec
Yann Le Guennec runs http://www.datapainting.com/ and you can see a wider variety of his work there. He uses data to make pictures. He maintains a blog as well, you can see it below:
http://www.yannleguennec.com/blog/2009/03/23/twitter-mountains/
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Fri, 20 Mar 2009
Recent publications in Itch Magazine and Art Digital Magazine
Big thanks to Max Eternity for publishing a piece on my work in his Art Digital Magazine, the article was titled "Don Relyea: Art Technologist". This Issue features work by me ( Don Relyea ), Jay Montgomery and Eric Heller. It is a very well put together artist run publication. Also a big thanks to artist Chris Ashley for recommending me!
Also last week my "Stick 'em Up" piece on the bailout was published in Itch magazine for their issue on Money and Greed.
Sun, 15 Mar 2009
Processing videos by Glenn Marshall
Metamorphosis by Glenn Marshall via Culture TV
Marshall writes..."Metamorphosis is programmed entirely in Processing, it’s the follow up to my Music is Math video. I developed my ‘zeno’ animation system a bit more to allow for nebulous additive blending as well as a few other things. The music is by Boards of Canada again - the track ‘Corsair’ from the Geogaddi album."
It looks like Glen is doing visuals for the latest Peter Gabriel tour as well. Fun!
Keep a look out for more work by Glenn Marshall on his Blog: http://glennmarshall.wordpress.com/
Thu, 12 Mar 2009
new evilcomputergenius mp3 single "greed"
Greed ( Right click to download ) (128khz mp3 2.9mb) by evilcomputergenius
genre: dub, breaks, electronica, industrial
This is the first mp3 single from the new evilcomputergenius album "Theory of Humanistic Futility"
This song is a reaction to the greed that caused the financial collapse. How it is permissable to allow lending institutions and Wall Street barons to make bad business decisions and have citizens and taxpayers across the world foot the bill is beyond comprehension.
This single is also featured in the lates issue of Itch Magazine as an audio artwork along side the bailout artwork "Stick 'em Up" by Don Relyea
Tue, 03 Mar 2009
Building a More Meaningul Existence by Daniel Everett
"Building a More Meaningul Existence" by Daniel Everett
Daniel writes..."For this project I used a graphics editor built into an early arcade game to convert spam emails I had received into a virtual landscape. By reconfiguring the graphics editor interface to accept keystrokes as input, I was able to build these landscapes solely by transcribing the spam messages and compiling them. For this piece I specifically chose spam messages that promised me a more meaningful life, increased happiness, and a greater sense of self-worth. "
Mon, 02 Mar 2009
Timeline Project by William Brovelli
Conceptual artist William Brovelli in front of "Timeline Project"
William Brovelli is a conceptual artist living in NYC. His work "Timeline project" is process based.
Brovelli writes... "The project consists of producing hundreds of thousands of hand-drawn figures that will be used as material for a case study documenting an evolution of the image. The figure is used as mental template which can be viewed as a cylinder that is divided into distinct sections that allow for a wide variation of moves. This neurological mapping will span a lifetime with all other urges towards conventional art making to be suspended to preserve the integrity of the project."
Brovelli was strongly influenced by the arcade game phenomenon and it influences the processes and concepts of his work greatly. He writes..." The act of starts and stops, moving through levels and keeping score as well as trying to advance towards a higher score are all key factors in the overall scheme of figure production. The finished sheets are framed in a 6ftx6ft white shadowbox simulating the arcade game encasement. "
close up of "Timeline project" by William Brovelli
He relates the process to the game experience..."The core drive in the mind of the player/artist when engaging in the game is the act of racing against time and the preservation of one's immortality. This act is symbolic yet the implications are very real."
It would appear from his website that he intends to continue this process approximately 3 hours a day for the rest of his life. He estimates before he dies he will be able to complete 879.4 canvases containing around 3,120 tiny 2 inch figures per canvas.
Wed, 11 Feb 2009
Revelation 2213 by Claudia X. Valdes
Revelation 2213 by Claudia X. Valdes is an interactive networked video installation with chroma key. The installation is configured to allow participants to see themselves mapped in real-time against an exploding nuclear bomb.
I have to admit I love this project as it is both wonderful and horrific at the same time. Seeing as how the Doomsday Clock is only 5 minutes to midnight at the time of this writing, this is such a relevant work for our times.
I have been thinking about atomic destruction a lot lately and I have recently watched some classics like Atomic Cafe, Dr. Strangelove and others which inspired me to make another atomic destruction song under my evilcomputergenius moniker called "the most beautiful sight ever seen by man" ( 2 MB mp3 right click to save to computer). I just finished the track a week or so ago which makes Valdes project that much more relevant to me.
REVELATION 2213 is currently installed in the solo exhibition, TEN MILLION DEGREES at:
Lawrimore Project
831 Airport Way South
Seattle, WA 98134
http://www.lawrimoreproject.com
originally via: http://rhizome.org/announce/view/52763#comment
Sat, 31 Jan 2009
Pixel Celebration (2009) - Parker Ito
originally from Rhizome.org
Tue, 20 Jan 2009
Barcode Portraits by Scott Blake
Artist Scott Blake Makes large portraits with barcodes.
Scott's Barcode work is really looking good. I first stumbled into his work while doing some research on Chuck Close, he also has a Chuck Close filter online. I gather from his blog that the Chuck Close filter is on the back burner and not quite done yet but it is fun never the less.
In the video you can see he has used the barcodes from the soup cans to create the portrait of Warhol. Scanning the barcodes triggers the soup can interface to display which can of soup the barcode belongs to and triggers a video of the soup being poured into the bowl.
He has a similar portrait of Jane Fonda that is a semi-finalist in the Smithsonian National Portrait Competition. Congrats to him and good luck for the finals, my hairy Bush portrait was rejected from the Smithsonian competition lol.
Thu, 08 Jan 2009
Chris Ashley and Rusty Scruby openings
There is a lot of great art going on this weekend. If I were in SF I would check out Chris Ashley and locally Rusty Scruby has two concurrent solo shows running.
Chris Ashley from Blue and Green paintings series
in the room for painting
CHRIS ASHLEY
Blue & Green Paintings
01.08.09 > 02.07.09
reception 01.08.09 5:30 > 7:30
room for painting room for paper
49 Geary 2nd Flr San Francisco CA 94108
415.772.0977 Wed>Sat 11:00>5:30
Oakland based artist Chris Ashley has gained respect from art world insiders over the last few years for a unique series of HTML coded drawings he posts daily on his blog. A year's worth of prints from this online body of work was recently exhibited at David Cunningham Gallery in San Francisco. Parallel to this effort, Ashley has maintained a disciplined studio practice as an accomplished painter. Over the last three years he has been working on a formally related group of small canvases, oil and industrial metalic paint on linen, which he refers to simply as the Blue & Green Paintings. We are pleased to be able to present a representative selection from this series. A catalog of the exhibition with an essay by James Harris is available from the gallery.
— George Lawson, Director, room for painting room for paper
RUSTY SCRUBY
Palm Angel, 2007
mixed media construction
74" h x 50" w
Rusty Scruby is at Pan American Art projects Jan 10th -Feb. 14th, the above image is from that show, reception jan 10th, 5:30-7:30pm. Rusty is also at the McKinney Ave Contemporary ( the mac) January 9th through February 14th, reception Jan 9th, 5:30-7:30pm. I am going to try to make one or both of Rusty's shows so feel free to say hi if you see me.
Fri, 12 Dec 2008
Hairy Hot Rod Blagojevich generative hair particle sketch
This should come as no surprise to regular readers, I have made a hair particle drawing of the notorious Illinois governor Hot Rod Blagojevich!
Hairy "Hot Rod" Blagojevich sketch by Don Relyea
(click to see various sizes on flickr)
This picture of Hot Rod Blagojevich was generated in the openframeworks version of my hair particle drawing program.
Thu, 11 Dec 2008
O
ZHANG @ CRG Gallery The World is Yours (But Also Ours)
CRG Gallery
DECEMBER 12, 2008 - JANUARY 31, 2009
opening reception: Friday, Dec 12, 6-8pm
CRG Gallery
535 W 22ND ST, NEW YORK, NY 10011 | T 212-229-2766 | F 212-229-2788 |
www.crggallery.com
Transportation: C and E trains to 8th Ave and 23rd St. or M23 Bus to 23rd St and 10th Ave
originally from [PAM] perpetual art machine
Thanksgiving Cretaceous Fossil Hunt in Blanco TX
I went to Blanco, Tx with the family, a buddy Alex, and our next door neighbors to spend part of the Thanksgiving holiday there on our neighbor's acreage. We go to Blanco now pretty regularly and always have a good time. It is in the Texas Hill Country and there is a lot to do there for adventurous kids. We always get to see plenty of nature and usually go on at least one fossil hunt.
In Blanco there are lots of great Cretaceous exposures where the roads are cut and in new residential developments. Generally I go out ahead of time to find good limestone exposures and find good fossils to put out in the open before I swing by with the kids. This way the kids always find something ensuring I will get to go fossil hunting again next time =) Unfortunately it started raining while we were out looking for fossils for the kids to find, so we just grabbed them and took them home with us.
Not shown here is a really nice Baculite Alex found. It is about 8 inches long. I found a nice piece of coral with some crystals on it as well but they are still in the back of Alex's car. We also found a whole bunch of clams.
We also found what we think is the back half of a sea scorpion, unfortunately it was totally exposed and all the segments fell apart when we tried to move it out of the exposure. The other problem with our sea scorpion theory is that they are Silurian Age creatures (over 400 million years ago). Although we found it on the lowest layer of exposure I am unsure it was low enough, only about 4ft below Cretaceous layer (only 144-65 million years ago) . It is still in pieces also probably in the back of Alex's car. We will have to reassemble it and look again.
Being an aficionado of mathematical forms in nature I was excited to stumble on this combination of items. One of the things I really enjoy about wandering around in the countryside of Blanco is the abundance of interesting nature. What we have here is a lower Cretaceous concretion with embedded Turritella juxtaposed with a leaf. I found these items sitting this way and I just had to take a picture of it.
Smashed Heteraster texanus - Cretaceous Period (144-65 mya), Salenia Mexicana (foreground)- Cretaceous Period (144-65 mya), Big snails (Gastropods ) are Tylostoma tumidum Cretaceous Period (144-65 mya), small snails in the back are Drepanochilus (Anchura) Cretaceous Period (144-65 mya).
I have to admit to being pretty excited about finding the Salenia Mexicana, although these are somewhat common in Texas this was my first one. I can't wait to go back to this exposure again there was so much stuff in there we only had time to scratch the surface.
Several Echinoids, mostly Heteraster Texanus - Cretaceous Period (144-65 mya), these were in pretty bad shape from sitting out in the elements for a while so I added them to our neighbor's rock garden. Also more concretions with Turritella and a crushed gastropod.
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