balance machine
Digital Art, Music, Video Arts
2011
experimental digital animation and musique concrète
  • animation derived from an interactive Flash demo code designed to illustrate 3D techniques where a cube could be rotated using the mouse. the code was cut up (arbitrarily deleting lines of code / copying and pasting segments of code randomly), resulting in chaotic behaviour which made finding a rest-state very difficult (where no interaction produced no effect). most of the experiments not surprisingly failed to even compile and many crashed the computer immediately.

    10 years later, here's a go at pulling it all together, a composite of several runs of the same cut-up code. soundtrack anchored around samples which had been lying around in a dark and dusty corner for almost as long; ambulance radio traffic, morse code and bees, spooky transmissions from a world not too far away.
  • balance machine 1
    2011
    720p video, audio, 4'08
  • balance machine 1 (birth 1)
    digital c-type print, 25 x 45 cm
  • balance machine 1 (birth 2)
    2011
    digital c-type print, 25 x 45 cm
  • balance machine 1 (birth 3)
    2011
    digital c-type print, 25 x 45 cm
  • balance machine 1 (birth 4)
    2011
    digital c-type print, 25 x 45 cm
  • balance machine 1 (birth 5)
    2011
    digital c-type print, 25 x 45 cm
  • balance machine 1 (birth 6)
    2011
    digital c-type print, 25 x 45 cm
  • balance machine 1 (composite from original animation)
    2011
    digital c-type print, 30 x 50 cm
  • balance machine 2 (composite from original animation, work in progress)
    2011
    digital c-type print, 30 x 50 cm