Colour Field #14, lisa cianci 2010

Colour Fields is a series of code-generated continuous animations using video, still image and Flash ActionScript3 code to manipulate visual content. The constantly changing blends and movement create animations that can play endlessly and may never have the same sequence of pixels twice. The visual content is a combination of abstract and subtle figurative imagery taken from Lisa's Blackaeonium Archive Project. (http://archive.blackaeonium.net).

Colour Fields was conceived from experimenting with the notion of a personal archival assemblage, and recombination of certain objects -- mainly still images and video. Some of the image content has a very complex history. For example, in some of these animations, fragments of scanned photos are recaptured with video from a mobile phone camera using gestural movements over a computer screen, then the video and other still images are recombined in Flash files, then video captured with a third party software application or still image captured through screen capture functionality. In some cases there are six or more levels of manipulation and reinterpretation of the original scanned pixels.

The intent is to create a subtle, slow-moving, resonant and ever-changing "digital painting". The intent is that the user should take time to experience the work.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• colour field
• video
• animation
• lisa cianci
• flash
• code

[blackaeonium]

this is an 8 minute video capture of the code-driven animation. it is only a documentation of the actual work.