iota News – May 2011

Films from E*Rock: “The Optic Force Trilogy” (2006)

“In the process, I like to see how much you can overwhelm sensation by including more detail than you could possibly take in; this oversaturation also helps create the illusion of a stand-alone world””like a snapshot of something bigger, with an infinite amount of detail just out of reach, or the artificial world of a video game, seemingly open to endless exploration.” -E*Rock (Art Forum 2009)

“The Optic Force Trilogy” (2006) by E*Rock
Hyper color, neon rainbows, fuzzy bleeds and sprays, heat vision, bright acid flashes. Optic Force Trilogy traffics in saturation and over stimulation set spinning at a frenetic speed: Speed, speed, speeding. Acid, acidic, hallucinatory: acidic colors, acidic sounds. Distortion turns everything, auditory and optical, into patterns and repetitions. The patterns contort, reflect, mirror, oscillate back and forth, drift across the screen, different ones rotate at different velocities. Colors and images flash rapidly: subliminally.

Includes:
I. Geomagnetic Mind Feed (11:23)
II. Max Force Vision Phasear (12:29)
III. Day Glo Supernovea (12:14)

Sharon Louden Animations 2005-2011

Sharon Louden works in series. Each animation is a lateral expansion and continuation of her visual vocabulary. Her animations are whimsical and playful, yet elegant and beautiful. They are ‘drawings in space’: drawings that come alive and create a narrative that is abstract while also evoking feelings of something present, something representational. Her characters gracefully move through her animations, creating aspects of modern dance within an abstract presentation. Louden’s work was recently featured as part of the National Gallery Art’s “Cine-Concert: Art in Motion” which included works from iotaCenter’s collection.

In this volume:
Carrier 2011 2:30 min
The Bridge 2008 3:15 min
Hedge 2007 2:13 min
Pool 2006 1:24 min
Footprints 2006 4:00 min
Heavy 2006 2:46 min
Hugs 2006 2:15 min
The Dance 2006 2:34 min
Them 2006 1:32 min
Pile 2006 1:38 min

For more information about Louden and her work please visit her iotaCenter Member Page and her website.

The iotaWeekly – May 16 – 22, 2011

Clip of the Week
“Bermuda” (2011) by Calvin Frederick

Watch “Bermuda” by Calvin Frederick! A recent submission to iotaCenter, “Bermuda” demonstrates how much can be accomplished in-camera without the use of digital effects or compositing. Frederick generated the densely layered imagery in this film using a series of mirrors, light boxes, and a motion-control rig. The result is a nuanced, hypnotic piece of animated choreography.