digitized life

Made this for fun over the weekend using Processing and OpenGL. Please leave feedback in the comments. It’s just a simple visualizer intended for house parties and the like.

It was my first foray into the Sonia music library for Processing and my first time working with OpenGL.

musical credit:
Wolves (Song of the Shepard) by Iron and Wine from The Shepard’s Dog

2009 Winner of the Ars Electronica award for computer animation.

“HA’Aki” is an expressionistic short film whose images and soundtrack were created simultaneously. Filmmaker Iriz Pääbo (CA) uses the term “animbits” to describe the cinematic vocabulary with which she depicts an ice hockey match. Though she herself isn’t all that big a fan of this sport—one that can get excessively raucous at times—the artist let herself be inspired by Eric Nesterenko, a hockey star of the 1960s and ‘70s. The result is a wonderfully unorthodox interpretation of Canada’s national sport. “HA’Aki” was awarded the Golden Nica in the COMPUTER ANIMATION / VISUAL EFFECTS category.

Beautiful synthesis of idea and medium a great expression of the power of abstraction.

You are watching a home video my father shot on his camera in the mid-1980s of my sisters and me in the backyard.

Using C and Max/MSP, I wrote a program that replaces each pixel of the video with the memory address where that pixel is stored inside the computer. The address, written in hexadecimal, is colored according to the value stored there.

Because computers store video color as a mix of red, green, and blue, you can see here when the video is rotated the primary color planes that make up all videos.

This piece is about computer memory and human memory.

by Adam Rokhsar

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