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The gifs are nostalgic for the days of 286-486s but tell me why you like them and post them (i know i like them a lot)
Together they become something different. I am mesmerized by speed and rhythm relationships.
That's one of the reasons that I post a lot of my own video animations in multiples with tiny variations in frame rates. (to me, animations also magnify how the brain looks for resolution and for synchronicity in any movement. Or my need for patterns, actually)
See also the article and discussion linked to in this post in Axon:
http://www.interaccess.org/blog/?p=1109
(me, I wanna see Bat Boy all covered in GIF glitter. Can you make that happen LM? )
or hurling chewed up squirrel. can you make that happen?
Look in your mail for a smelly package, Bill, with Bat-boy, Canada as the return address.
I had my students read the Marisa Olson essay a while back, as if they read anything I tell them to, and I have been enjoying both the exchanges on AFC and the compliments from Tom Moody. (OK, I always enjoy compliments)
(Batty got more bling lights, we are ready for some serious light shows, Rob)
Lurve these! Yum yum.
I've been thinking about zack's original comment today and although they have that nostalgic ring that he noted, that's not really my taste or interest as an artist, (other artists do it better and enjoy it more) but a funny thing happens when you obsessively collect GIFs or any other web files, you start entering into other people's choices. I didn't enter in far enough to want to make some of my own from scratch, but each one struck me for one reason or another and they all made sense together in a way that satisfies me (temporarily).
L.M., this morning I was pondering your use of these gifs in the context of abstraction. If this kind of visual imagery was originally generated in any context other than the infoweb, these images would look like abstract art, or pop art, or, given that they move — and as M.Olson has pointed out about gifs — there is a connection to avant guard film. But I doubt if you would be as motivated to draw from those genres. Or at least, if you were, the images would say something different about abstraction (and speed), than what they are saying here. It doesn't read as nostalgia to me, because I am not nostalgic about early digital art. It doesn't seem long ago enough to me to feel that kind of sentiment. But the freedom to mine other tech aesthetics (sometimes past tech: either recent or distant, depending on one's perspective) does seem like a meaningful aspect to this work.
You're right, the immediate reference to me was abstract painting, but that's because of a painting background, and what the hell, this is a 2D pictorial medium a lot of the time. (but not always)
VVORK just posted a small clusterfuck of some similar stuff from the past 8 years. (I'm nostalgic for the past 8 years)
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(found GIFs)
- L.M. 10-23-2008 6:27 am
The gifs are nostalgic for the days of 286-486s but tell me why you like them and post them (i know i like them a lot)
- zach (guest) 10-23-2008 10:56 am
Together they become something different. I am mesmerized by speed and rhythm relationships.
That's one of the reasons that I post a lot of my own video animations in multiples with tiny variations in frame rates. (to me, animations also magnify how the brain looks for resolution and for synchronicity in any movement. Or my need for patterns, actually)
- L.M. 10-23-2008 2:28 pm
See also the article and discussion linked to in this post in Axon:
http://www.interaccess.org/blog/?p=1109
(me, I wanna see Bat Boy all covered in GIF glitter. Can you make that happen LM? )
- rob (guest) 10-23-2008 4:33 pm
or hurling chewed up squirrel. can you make that happen?
- bill 10-23-2008 5:30 pm
Look in your mail for a smelly package, Bill, with Bat-boy, Canada as the return address.
I had my students read the Marisa Olson essay a while back, as if they read anything I tell them to, and I have been enjoying both the exchanges on AFC and the compliments from Tom Moody. (OK, I always enjoy compliments)
(Batty got more bling lights, we are ready for some serious light shows, Rob)
- L.M. 10-23-2008 7:06 pm
Lurve these! Yum yum.
- Leah Sandals (guest) 10-24-2008 12:23 am
I've been thinking about zack's original comment today and although they have that nostalgic ring that he noted, that's not really my taste or interest as an artist, (other artists do it better and enjoy it more) but a funny thing happens when you obsessively collect GIFs or any other web files, you start entering into other people's choices. I didn't enter in far enough to want to make some of my own from scratch, but each one struck me for one reason or another and they all made sense together in a way that satisfies me (temporarily).
- L.M. 10-24-2008 1:51 am
L.M., this morning I was pondering your use of these gifs in the context of abstraction. If this kind of visual imagery was originally generated in any context other than the infoweb, these images would look like abstract art, or pop art, or, given that they move — and as M.Olson has pointed out about gifs — there is a connection to avant guard film. But I doubt if you would be as motivated to draw from those genres. Or at least, if you were, the images would say something different about abstraction (and speed), than what they are saying here. It doesn't read as nostalgia to me, because I am not nostalgic about early digital art. It doesn't seem long ago enough to me to feel that kind of sentiment. But the freedom to mine other tech aesthetics (sometimes past tech: either recent or distant, depending on one's perspective) does seem like a meaningful aspect to this work.
- sally mckay 10-24-2008 2:34 am
You're right, the immediate reference to me was abstract painting, but that's because of a painting background, and what the hell, this is a 2D pictorial medium a lot of the time. (but not always)
- L.M. 10-24-2008 2:40 am
VVORK just posted a small clusterfuck of some similar stuff from the past 8 years. (I'm nostalgic for the past 8 years)
- L.M. 10-24-2008 6:17 pm