Flashing numbers become beauty
As a reaction to Lilya's comments and links to some amazing Flash sites, I recall one of my artist friends, Pong Lam (Deepred), who uses Flash in a unique way (in my very limited knowledge). His "sketch book" shows the results of his attempt using formula and equations as the major "logic" (in his word) for generating a collection of hypnotizing visuals. In many cases, the spontaneity and the visitors' inputs almost gives you a sense of life out of some unknown numeric parameters, like the random positions of your clicking, time, motions of the mouse, etc. Although these "researches" are mainly vocabularies for other more complete products, I personally think the artistic spirit reveals itself better in its primitive forms. His works have been adapted in many Zuni Icosahedron's production in the past few years, in which I think the beauty of spontaneity of his experiments has been covered up by the resulting tantalizing effects. Probably confined also by the nature of theatre audience.
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I agree, the sketchbook is very inspiring, especially for landscape architecture.
Did Pong Lam make the videos for those Zuni shows like East Wing West Wing?
I thought those were a little crude, but quite original (I realize the crude effect was intentional). If you like those links-- ;-) -- atomfilms.com & rhizome.org will keep you updated with related news.
Flash is still relatively limited in videos and games, there is so much room for a higher level of interactivity in other areas, I'm sure it will penetrate our other worlds in a short time.
(hear me pretend to talk like I know stuff...)
Pong did mostly the digital visuals in Zuni's shows (more aesthetically experimental pieces than East Wing West Wing). Other video works were mostly created by another artist called John Wong.
you're reading one of my favorite book- camera lucida!
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