Tag Archives: Media Artists

458nm + The Cags

By jedypod | Published: May 26, 2007
I was just looking at some videos on MeFeedia.com, and came across this amazing 3D animated short called 458nm. “It’s midnight. A smattering of moonlight falls upon the forest floor. Two mechanical snails move slowly through the darkness. They confront one another and briefly take the measure each other’s powers before uniting in love play. [...]
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Peter Rose VOX 13 Series (1982 – 2000) on UbuWeb

By jedypod | Published: May 6, 2007
Peter Rose is an experimental media artist currently a professor of media studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Recently I and my fellow students of media at the Evergreen State College had the good fortune of receiving a couple of great presentations about his work and philosophy and creative processes that he [...]
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Rabbit, Owl

By jedypod | Published: May 1, 2007
Recently I happened across the animation “Rabbit” by Run Wrake, on the DVblog website (a rather prolifically updated compilation of interesting video). I had seen this screened in SOS: Media by Ruth Hayes previously, but thought I would share it here, as the 3rd post in this little series of interesting and notable “Multimedia Discoveries”. [...]
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Maywa Denki

By jedypod | Published: April 4, 2007
Maywa Denki are a group of artists and engineers in Tokyo, Japan. They are known for their creation of absurdly creative “nonsense machines“, and other works of electromechanical devices which are gloriously surreal in their purpose and functioning. Here are some blog posts for further reading. The Nonsense Machines of Maywa Denki PopGadget – Maywa [...]
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Online Video Discoveries of Excellence: Doll Face + Dog + 90 Degrees

By jedypod | Published: March 26, 2007
In the following space, I would enjoy presenting to you a collection of excellent short videos and animations that I have come across on the Internet. This collection is arbitrary and non-encompassing; as such, expect more posts of this sort to follow. Doll Face A slightly interesting and notable example of a simple conceptual 3D [...]
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Thorsten Fleisch

By jedypod | Published: March 12, 2007
Thorsten Fleisch is an experimental media artist from Germany, who has produced some very interesting work in the realm of animation, experimental imaging, and generative audio-visual / mathematical media. All of his work is compelling, some bordering on amazing and inspiring to myself. Gestalt was created by rendering still images of 4th dimensional Quaternion fractal [...]
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Soon Mi Yoo: The Modality of Meaning in Essayisticity

By jedypod | Published: February 28, 2006
Michael Renov’s discussion of the term essayistic in nonfiction autobiographical film and video lended a lucid and meaningful context to approach the cinema of Soon Mi Yoo. The essayistic is less concerned with the categorization and classification of genre, but rather to analyze the methods of the creation of meaning. “Rather than assemble a model [...]
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