Josef Hartwig chess set 1924, here 3d modeled and animated.
I wanted the individual elements to interact in a different way. I thought the design of chess pieces invited to a kind of spatial games rather than a tradional flat one.
Periodic Table of the Elements here made as a building scaffold.
The pictures was taken during the exhibition Eksil 2007 (KBH kunsthal at Krappesholm højskole, Skive, DK).
This project “no title” 2006 (CPH KUNSTHAL_Centenniale) was installe in the countryside and after some time more and more small animals came and the project came to resemble and were transformed to “Buzz” from the previous 2006
Placed in the swing door, at the main entrance of the Hospital.
Preceding animations to the work:
”Line meshing” 2012
http://jesper-carlsen.com/on/2012/01/line-meshing-2012/
and “Inside Tile Corner” 2012
http://jesper-carlsen.com/on/2012/01/inside-tile-corner-3x3x3-2012/
I actually still really like the visuals in these tests, so maybe they come to form the basis for several more projects.
the sound bite for this test is from:
http://www.moma.org/collection/details.php?theme_id=10955§ion_id=T019195
SOURCE: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS , Constructivism
A 3d animation test I made in 2007.
I still think it is a fine little dry animation and its in a way the predecessor of the project:
“100 sider” from 2010
http://jesper-carlsen.com/on/2010/11/100-sider-2010/
The dead Corel reefs in Biosphere 2.
We visited the place in 2007. Have had a great fascination of the place for a long time and was delighted to visit the site.
It has a amazing story which I urge that you tjeck out, we’re talking: sci-fi, space travel, an oil millionaire, lifestyle experimentation, an almost religious cult and a very large, quite fascinating building with a giant artificial lung
read more about Biosphere 2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2
I did this small animation in 2008. Not much to say other then it is a form og minimal narrative.
after El Lissitzky’s painting, Composition, 1922
A 3D computer model built from an El Lissitzky painting.
This i some of the test films which were to becom the project “Compositions” 2011.
http://jesper-carlsen.com/on/2011/09/compositions-2011/
The final animation became very simple and slow, rotating around the object in 36000 frames, viewing the objects from all angles
A further development of the idea behind projects like :
”Copenhagen Flicker” 2009 http://jesper-carlsen.com/projects/2009_cph_flicker.html
”Colour Vision” 2009 http://jesper-carlsen.com/projects/2009_colour_vision.html
Inspired by the event that led Brion Gysin to build the Dream Machine in 1960.
“Had a transcendental storm of colour visions today in the bus going to
Marseilles. We ran through a long avenue of trees and I closed my eyes against
the setting sun. An overwhelming flood of intensely bright colors exploded
behind my eyelids: a multidimensional kaleidoscope whirling out through space.
I was swept out of time. I was out in a world of infinite number. The vision
stopped abruptly as we left the trees. Was that a vision? What happened to me?”
Extract from the diary of
Brion Gysin
December 21, 1958
It is all pictures taking from google street view in the area north of Marseilles. Its all places where the sun came though trees in such a way that this kind of flicker could occur. The title is from a street name I stumbled across which actually had an avenue and a low setting sun and it even look like its was photographed in the winter by the Street View car (Brion Gysin incident happend in december).
I was inspired by an article in the magazine wired “Google’s Mapping Tools Spawn New Breed of Art Projects” http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2011/08/google-street-view/
ending notes:
yes I’m lazy(or just a geek), sitting in front of my computer instead of going to the south france but I think its an interesting phenomenon (visual archaeological excavation in the giant photo collections) and there should be many more projects of this nature. I think there is a much greater potential than just looking for funny situations.
I consider this this project to be an art project that could and probably will find a place on my main site, but its here on this blog as it falls a little outside what I am doing at the moment.
