Triggers 01|05|07

Mooonriver, encroaches many territories with cartographic journeys & eclectic discoveries. While ‘night travelling, daydreaming and mapping her escapisms’ she leaves behind an interesting tale/trail of Neogeographies and Neural Networks through the eye of Flickr, the fantastical post-Bruegel Aerodynamics-for-psychonauts, Spatial Urbanists and Fantastic Cities.

Joao Riba’s Expanded Cinema is building up an impressive set of links to early video works and experimental film. A quick eye over the list of featured videos reveals many works central to the concept of Expanded Cinema by Youngblood. Check out Robert Breer’s ‘69’ or ‘Man talking his dog out for air’, both childlike-cartooned montages of living flipbook minimalism, constructivism and abstract Expressionism. You could lose a lot of time here.

A post called Complex Geometry at AccuracyandAesthetics, is an attractor to The Theatre of Pattern Formation – on-going artist/scientist collaboration project exploring ‘naturally occurring patterns in nature and mathematics and how they can be seen within the aesthetic traditions of the arts’ The collaboration has lead to a planetarium not containing the night sky, but the patterns of non linear dynamics triggered by ‘bioacoustics’ – One of the perpetrators is James Crutchfield, responsible for the only important scientific paper on video feedback available.

Unproductive is the home of Leonal Cunha (check out the previous post for his actionscript comps) which collects links to interesting, predominantly glitch infused video works, my favourite being Atonal’s ‘CCD crash’ an (un)intentional digital homage to Stan Brakhage