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  • Typewriter Text Effect Revisited

    For the fifth video in the Design Yourself series I was faced yet again with the task of doing a typewriter text effect. Yay… For each of the videos the participants wrote a poem to go with it. The poems were a really important part of the video so they needed to have a…

  • Design Yourself

    Throughout 2019 and the early part of 2020 I led a programme for Barbican’s Young Creatives called Design Yourself. What does it mean to be human? Can technology be used to replicate the pheromone communication of ant colonies? Can we use technology to mimic the camouflage abilities of chameleons? Can movement be used as…

  • Motion Interpolation for Glitch Aesthetics using FFmpeg part 0

    As you may have seen in this blog post I made use of FFmpeg’s minterpolate motion interpolation options to make all of the faces morph. There’s quite a few options for minterpolate and many different combinations of options that can be used. i had to consult Wikipedia to figure out exactly what the different…

  • (mis)Using FFmpeg’s Motion Interpolation Options

    Towards the end of the Let’s Never Meet video the robotic faces slowly morph into something a little bit more human-like. These faces continue to morph between lots of different faces, suggesting that when getting to know people you can never really settle on who they are. To make the faces morph I used…

  • Producing audio for Let’s Never Meet

    For the majority of my career in art I’ve been primarily known for my visual artwork. I’ve dabbled in making noises with my Sonification Studies performances (which may make a comeback at some point) but it’s only since my 2018 performance at databit.me that I’ve regularly made and performed music. On the performance side…

  • Seamlessly loop Wave Modifier in Blender

    Seamless animation For the Improviz gifs one of the requirements that Rumblesan set is that the gifs loop seamlessly. That is, one would not be able to tell where the gifs beings and ends. In Blender making an animation seamless is pretty easy. There’s lots of examples out there but for completion here’s my…

  • Overlaying multiple textures in Blender

    In 2019 I made an internet artwork for Fermynwood’s programme Toggler. For this work I decided to use a similar aesthetic and process to Visually Similar. I talked a little bit about the process behind Visually Similar in a June’s Development Update. The node tree to overlay each of the transparent textures looked a…

  • </2019>

    Back at it again with the Year in Review blog post! As suggested in 2018 this year I have been focusing more on my own independent projects and building my practice. Here’s some of the highlights. January Started January with my first visit to ICLC which was held in Madrid. Myself and Olivia Jack…

  • Installing Bcc: at Vivid Projects part 3

    In this final part of this three-part series I’ll be going over installing Xuan Ye‘s work in the Bcc exhibition. This work posed a similar challenge to Scott Benesiinaabandan’s work. I needed to automatically load a web page except this time I needed to allow for user interaction via the mouse and keyboard. The…