Spotworks by Scott Draves

DVD – 87 minutes
Released – 2004

Price $15.00

Experience 87 minutes of hypnotic retinal bliss by San Francisco VJ and software artist Spot, a.k.a. Scott Draves. Five video tracks sync with electronic music by jhno, Spool, dj vordo, and mbb. Three more tracks sync with music by techno-violin sensation Kenji Williams (ABA Structure), including an original track not released elsewhere. See three unique and original styles: Electric Sheep, Dub Visuals, and Bomb, , each with a documentary explanation. Includes looping tracks with solid background for use by VJs, and progressive-scan for videophiles.

“With the spiked eye candy and fractal arabesques of Spotworks, Scott Draves has significantly raised the bar of digital Psychedelia and the broader category of abstract animation. His electric sheep are the fluttering Gaian spawn of the networked computers and genetic algorithms, while his visual ‘dubs’ of Ernst Haeckel’s fin-de-siecle scientific lithographs add a resonant historical dimension to trippy visuals. Mind-melting stuff, and refreshingly devoid of the usual fungal kitsch.” –Erick Davis, author of Techgnosis and writer for Wired.

“This isn’t just a trippy wallpaper-it’s not even just art. This is garage-band artificial life. Draves is cooking up a new species made of code, decisions and cooperation, and this disc is a petri dish swimming with the organisms that deserve to succeed us here on Earth. I for one welcome our new a-life masters.” –Cory Doctorow, author of Eastern Standard Tribe and co-editor of Boing Boing.