Art & Technology
Screen capture from live session using AV Clash:
avclash.com
AV Clash (2010) is a project by Video Jack (videojackstudios.com) for creating audiovisual compositions, consisting of combinations of sound and audio-reactive animation loops. The sounds are retrieved from freesound.org.
More info:
videojackstudios.com/projects/avclash/
Credits:
André Carrilho (visuals); Nuno Coreia (interaction); Gokce Taskan (coding); Freesound.org and community (sounds)
Cast: Video Jack
Tags: audiovisual, vj, vjing, motiongraphics, animation, videojack, avclash, music, musicvideo, freesound, andrecarrilho, nunocorreia and gokcetaskan
Just a block away from my penthouse, 1BR, ok small studio apartment, it just popped up last Sunday, there in the thick of the tangled web of buildings that make up the city’s art academy (Academy of Art College.) With a big colorful sign to announce, “Photoshop & You!” Hey, how’d they move the Transamerica Building out of the financial district to Market Street? Silly, they “photoshopped” it. This is all part of a great idea on Adobe’s part to bring some of the best creative minds in digital imaging to talk and better yet, give demos of their work. What better way to Learn Ps. If you’ve seen any of Adobe’s videos online you may be familiar with some of these faces, like Bert Monroy and Russell Brown, among many others. Brown is Adobe’s creative director, punmeister and digital wizard par excellence. For two weeks, through August 6th, you can join celebrated artists, authors, and adventurers as they share their stories, inspiration, and advice. There will be photo walks through San Francisco and other all-pixel activities. And, it’s all free, with proceeds from the sale of Photoshop gear going to Adobe Youth Voices, Adobe Foundation’s global signature philanthropy program. If you are a city dweller, or happen to be here visiting, it’s recommended to stop by and see the show.
More information about the event and schedule >
Photoshop & You
50 Sutter Street
San Francisco CA 94102
Sun–Wed: 11 a.m.–7 p.m.
Thurs–Sat: 11 a.m.–9 p.m.
2, 3, and 76 muni bus lines
Gallery Crawl/Quest
Color By Nano – The Art of Kate Nichols
Premieres: Wednesday, Sep 15, 2010
KQED World
The always generous, innovative, KQED shares this compelling, up close glimpse from the first collaboration between QUEST and Gallery Crawl featuring Kate Nichols. Kate is one of the recently announed TED fellows and is a San Francisco artist whose artist-in-residence at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has allowed her to create brilliant new palettes in new and different ways.
The results of the work in residence show how one artist’s inquiry into the question of how one applies her vision of what it means to “combine art and technology.
But it’s no aside that Nichols’ statement in response to the inquiry is nothing less than breathless.
Artist Kate Nichols longed to paint with the iridescent colors of butterfly wings, but no such pigments existed. So she became the first artist-in-residence at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to synthesize nano-particles and incorporate them into her artwork.
From the laboratory to the studio, see how Kate uses the phenomenon known as “structural color” to transform nanotechnology into creativity. Rating: 5 stars.
KQED on YouTube


