FILMS/
GENERATOR
Spotlight: Kinotek
79 minutes
SHOWTIMES
Thu, May 1 / 1:45 / Kabuki / GENE01K
Sun, May 4 / 8:30 / Kabuki / GENE04K
The 20 short videos in this program run quickly between intensely complicated structures and achingly beautiful abstractions. These works use computers and software design as a bridge between traditional media like film and sculpture. Each of these animated works, presenting finely crafted visions and sounds, is an example of “generative art.” The term defines artistic production generated through algorithms or other computational processes. In essence, an animator, engineer, designer or group produces parameters within which particular works materialize randomly. It is as if the artist produced her own counterpart—the artist she wishes existed—and had her make the video you will watch in this program. Another unique aspect of generative work is that the media produced through specific virtual algorithms or processes can in many cases vary wildly. The algorithms that generate the videos could just as easily make sculptures, music, drawings, paintings or poems the form of the finished works. In this program, SFIFF will present single-channel video work only. The bulk of the program was assembled by Lia and Miguel Carvalhais for a Generative Art program presented at the 2006 Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria. Three other works were taken from the forthcoming DVD Advanced Beauty, assembled by Matt Pyke of Universal Everything and Freeform.
04_066 (dextro, Austria/Japan 2003, 2 min)
21_063 (dextro, Austria/Japan 2005, 1 min)
371 Adv3 (David Muth, England/Austria 2006, 1 min)
Berlin (Karl Kliem, Denmark/Japan 2005, 4 min)
Chained Probabilities (Toxi, England/USA 2004, 4 min)
Chronomops (Tina Frank, Austria 2005, 2 min)
Crosslinxs (Telcosystems, Netherlands 2005, 2 min)
ElectroPlastique #1 (Marius Watz, Norway 2005, 5 min)
Errange.03 (Meta, USA 2005, 4 min)
Flight404 (Robert Hodgin, USA 2008, 4 min)
flow (Lia, Austria/Portugal 2006, 5 min)
int. 16/54//son01/30x1 (Lia, Austria 2005, 6 min)
Meta_Epics generative Live Cinema installation (Telcosystems, Netherlands 2005, 3 min)
Metastatic Resonance (U-Sun, England/Australia 2006, 7 min)
Panda1 (Pandapanther, USA 2008, 4 min)
Panda2 (Pandapanther, USA 2008, 4 min)
Release the object (Nik Gaffney, Belgium 2006, 5 min)
Sculpture 5 (Joshue Ott, USA 2006, 5 min)
unsimulatable-ih-fk (Joshue Ott, USA 2006, 6 min)
unsimulatable-psb-bos (Joshue Ott, USA 2006, 5 min)
—Sean Uyehara
Total running time 79 min.
Music credits: a.m. (04_066; 21_063), Farmers Manual (371 Adv3), Alva Ryuichi and Noto Sakamoto (Berlin), Damiak (Chained Probabilities), Tina Frank (chronomops), Jason Haas (Crosslinxs), James None and Welburn Norway (ElectroPlastique #1), Meta (Errange.0), Vitor Joaquim (flow), @c (int. 16/54//son01/30x1), Telcosystems (Meta_Epics generative Live Cinema installation), Pimmon (Metastatic Resonance), Bent Object (Release the object), Morgan Packard (unsimulatable-psb-bos; unsimulatable-ih-fk).
