Opus Alchymicum
Opus Alchymicum
Aaron Ross
NTSC DVD
46 minutes
Price $25.00
Institutional price: $50.00
Warning: some of these videos include intense flickering light. View at your own risk!
A collection of short avant-garde video works by Aaron F. Ross. The artist weaves music and video together to create abstract visual music. Among the tools employed are rare analog video synthesizers and 3D computer animation. These pieces range from personally transformative to satirical. A unique collection of unusual cultural artifacts.
Selected exhibitions:
Prix Ars Electronica, Linz 1992
Videonale 5, Bonn 1992
California Institute of the Arts, 1992
Artists Television Access, San Francisco 1993
International Symposium on Electronic Arts, Helsinki 1994
WRO ’05, Sound Basis Visual Arts Festival, Wroclaw, Poland 1995
International Symposium on Electronic Arts, Montreal 1995
SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival, Los Angeles 1995
Berlin Interfilm Festival 1996
Short Attention Span, New York 1996
7th International Videoweek, Geneva 1997
Behind the Screen, Exploratorium, San Francisco 2001
Graphic Sonic, San Francisco Cinematheque 2003
This collection includes:
| Lullabye (for postmodern children) 5 minutes, 1992 | |
| PSEKELIS Music by Olivier Delarue, 5 minutes, 1992 | |
| Media Blitz 3 minutes, 1992 | |
| Meltdown (Chaos in Motion) Collaboration with Christian Greuel, 6 minutes, 1991 | |
| Opus Alchymicum:The Special Edition 6 minutes, 1993-95 | |
| Technotanz 3 minutes, 1996 | |
| Trance Mission3 minutes, 1997 | |
| Too Far Out 4 minutes, 1998 | |
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Cruise the Circuit 5 minutes, 1999 |

