Infinite Glitch

It's like white noise off the internet, maybe not only "like" but it is white noise in images and sound.


Every day an incomprehensible number of new digital media files are uploaded to hosting sites across the internet. Far too many for any one person to consume. Infinite Glitch is a stream-of-conciousness representation of this overwhelming flood of media, its fractured and degraded sounds and images reflecting how little we as an audience are able to retain from this daily barrage.

Infinite Glitch is an automated system that generates an ever-changing audio/video stream from the constantly increasing mass of media files freely available on the web. Source audio and video files are ripped from a variety of popular media hosting sites, torn apart, and recombined using collage and glitch techniques to create an organic, chaotic flood of sensory input. (source: Infinite Glitch)

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or listen with VLC Player:
http://infiniteglitch.com/info/ig.m3u
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http://infiniteglitch.com:8000/video.ogv

February 2011 Calendar

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Quote from the Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad, art by UEK Multimedia Artist.

Abuela Grillo (animation)

The animation Abuela Grillo (Grandma Cricket) was produced by 8 Bolivian animators: Alejandro Salazar, Cecilia Delgado, Joaquín Cuevas, Mauricio Sejas, Miguel Mealla, Román Nina, Salvador Pomar and Susana Villegas, under the direction of French animator Denis Chapon.

If you've seen the movie Gasland by Josh Fox you have an idea what industries are doing to the water. This animation shows Abuela Grillo leaving the countryside for the city where water becomes a commodity. Since she has the ability to create rain when she sings, some square metal guys are taking advantage of her talent ...

LINK to Vimeo.

Paul Nicholls

click on image to enlarge (source: Paul Nicholls blog)

"The Golden Age is a film which speculates on artificial intelligence within a simulated architecture. It is concerned with technology, synthetic programmed spaces, and the temporality of our immediate conceived environment, physical or otherwise.

It is part of a wider project which looks at a ‘downloaded’ architecture, radically changing the consumerist lifestyle we are all used to." (Byline of Golden Age -- The Stimulation)


Source: Vimeo


Source: Vimeo

LINK to his homepage

Joost Rekveld (films)

Joost Rekveld (1970) has been making abstract films and light installations since 1991, originally starting out from the idea of a visual music for the eye. He has been making most of his animated films with optical and mechanical setups, using the computer as a controller and composition machine in order to orchestrate the precise movements of optical components. His installation making grew out of the tools he developed to make his films, often inspired by the lesser frequented by-ways in the history of science and technology. His work so far has dealt with various forms of scanning, or with concepts related to the early history of optics and perspective. His interest in the spatial aspects of light triggered a shift away from the screen, towards more architectural and theatrical forms of work. At the moment he is becoming increasingly implicated in activities that resemble cybernetics, artificial life and robotic architecture.

His films have been shown worldwide in a broad range of festivals and venues for experimental, animated or otherwise short films. He has collaborated on many theatre projects, often with dance group Emio Greco | PC or music theatre ensemble De Veenfabriek. He has been putting together many programmes about the history of abstract animation and light art, culminating in the 9th edition of Sonic Acts: Sonic Light 2003. In 2004 he curated ‘4D in the Filmmuseum’ a large exhibition, series of screenings and lectures for the Dutch Filmmuseum. Since 2008 he is the head of the ArtScience Interfaculty of the Royal Conservatory and the Royal Academy in The Hague. (source: homepage)

LINK to his homepage

Below is a 2 part interview about patterns and how he applied them to film #37. It is mainly in English with a short German part that is kind of self-explanatory:

We Like America and America Likes Us

We Like America and America Likes Us is a video by The Bruce High Quality Foundation, which is a group of anonymous artists, using performance pranks. questioning and criticizing media, the world at large, as well as the art world.

Their video We Like America and America Likes Us, which shows images from TV and YouTube with a consistent narrative through the voice of a female, has been selected to be shown in this year's Sundance Film Festival.
LINK to Sundance

Direct LINK to video