Flowers with Tendrils is my entry for this year's Festival, you can see it in the vimeo video below. I used some of the same flower photographs and scans from Mark Charneski that have used in the Generative Flowers series and ran them through a modified version of my particle painting program done in openframeworks. I made a lot of improvements to the drawing code in this branch which I will definitely need to pull back into the main drawing program.
Flowers with Tendrils from Don Relyea on Vimeo.
The music in this video is a track called Singularity which I have been working on for a couple years off and on. This version is good enough for the video, I have been waiting for the perfect soundbite from Ray Kurzweil to incorporate into this track but have yet to find it. I still have several hours of downloaded lectures to go through, maybe it is hiding in there somewhere. Someday I will.
You can right click to download Singulalrity its an 192kps MP3 file about 11 MB.
I try to enter this festival every year as it coincides with my usual visit to my Grandmother and is on the way back to Texas from that trip. We were planning to go this year whether or not my work got in but it did, yea!
Digital Graffiti is an awesome party, the whole town of Alys Beach is white and during this festival they paint the entire town with spectacular video art! There are Djs around every corner and it is a blast.
Bombshell at Digital Graffiti 2010, Photo by DesignerLife
I will be covering this event in person for Art Digital Magazine as well.
2011 DIGITAL GRAFFITI FESTIVAL AT ALYS BEACH FINALISTS
The following works have been selected for display and competition during the 2011 Digital Graffiti Festival at Alys Beach:
“Another Perspective” by Stephanie Thompson of Belford, New Jersey
“Blue Orange” by Polina Zaitseva of Hackensack, New Jersey
“Boyson” by Erin Stevens of Destin, Florida
“changes embedded in nature” by Mathew West of Souix Falls, South Dakota
“DG Kaleidoscopia” by Andy McKewon of Shrewsbury, United Kingdom
“Digital Graffiti 02” by Graffiti Technica of Brisbane, Australia
“Duchamp Spinning Glass” by Francesca Fini of Rome, Italy
“Ebrio” by Amber Bushnell of Missoula, Montana
“Florida Earth/Sky” by Russell Deaton of Fayetteville, Arkansas
“Flowers with Tendrils” by Don Relyea of Dallas, Texas
“FLUX” by Candas Sisman of Izmir, Turkey
“FocusPocus-videoparadox” Albert Laine & Kristina Laine of Helsinki, Finland
“From All Over” by Yandell Walton (credit for animator Tobias J Edwards) of Victoria, Australia
“Helios” by Coral Morphologic aka Colin Foord and Jared McKay of Miami, FL
“Here Be Dragons” by Manuel Barenboim of ValVerde, California
“Interpose” by Shyra DeSouza of Alberta, Canada
“It’s Sad, but the Telling Takes Me Home” by Brandon Neubauer of Brooklyn, New York
“Love Will Guide You” by Niky Roehreke of New York, New York
“N1.0” by fuse* of Modena, Italy
“Once More” by Florence Artur of Montreuil, France
“Playground” by Amber Bushnell, Charles Raffety & Charles Nichols
“Reulf” by Tout Court of Paris, France
“Sound Architecture” by Michael Murphy of Milledgeville, Georgia
“Spooker” by David Terranova of Brooklyn, NY
“Sun Beginning” by Linh Lam of Chandler, Arizona
“Tawhirimatea” by Tanya Ruker of New Zealand
“The City Unfolds” by Dmitry Kmelnitsky/Lustre of Venice, California
“The Colorflow” by Jonathan McCabe of Turner, Australia
“The Garden” by Michael Burton of Lincoln, Nebraska
“The Path EYE See” by Russell Beans of Panama City Beach, Florida
“Untitled #76” by Stefan Reibel of Liepzig, Germany
“Veils” by Irene Mamive of New York, New York
“Warm Signal” by Silke Sieler of Hamburg, Germany
“Wrestle” by Ann Carter of Nashville, Tennessee
“Wool and Water” by Lemeh42 of Monterado, Italy
“Yellow Whirl #2” by Marjan Moghaddam of Brooklyn, New York