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Technotanz

Hardware: Ampex ADO 1000, Ampex ADO 100, Grass Valley Group 1600-1X switcher

Technotanz is another hybrid analog/digital video art piece. It is an ideal example of "ADO feedback," in which the output of a realtime digital effects device is fed into its own input. The effects are similar to ordinary video feedback, except that the artist can fly the virtual camera around in three dimensions -- all in real time.


As Above, So Below

As Above, So Below

Hardware: Pentium-200
Software: 3D Studio DOS 4, Photoshop 3

This image and the one below it were created as part of the cover art for my first music CD, The Alchemist's Dream.


The Alchemist's Dream

The Alchemist's Dream

Hardware: Pentium-200
Software: 3D Studio DOS 4, Photoshop 3

This is a single molecule of buckminsterfullerene, a recently discovered form of carbon which promises to revolutionize chemistry. It is composed of 60 carbon atoms in the spherical configuration of a truncated icosahedron. (You may recognize it as a soccer ball!) It's named after the famous inventor of the geodesic dome, R. Buckminster Fuller.


Lab of the Future

Lab of the Future

Hardware: Pentium-200
Software: 3D Studio DOS 4, Photoshop 3

Animation demonstrating new concepts in architecture for scientific laboratories. The final product was a video news release for KMD architects, which was shown on most of the major TV networks. Here you see a robotic arm manipulating a pod containing biohazardous viral samples.


The Elixir 1 The Elixir 2 The Stone
The Tablet 1 The Tablet 2 The Vas 1
The Vas 2 The Vas 3 The Vas 4

Opus Alchymicum: The Special Edition

Hardware: SGI 4D/80, SGI Iris 3000 series, Hearne/EAB Videolab, Fairlight CVI
Software: Wavefront 2, Softimage 2.6

All of the above are still frames from my MFA Thesis Project, OPUS ALCHYMICUM: The Special Edition. It incorporates analog and digital techniques to create an audio-visual journey through inner space. The piece was inspired by the ancient precepts of Western alchemy and the 20th-century Jungian interpretation of them.


Nearer to Death

Nearer to Death

Hardware: 486-66
Software: 3D Studio DOS 3, James Gleick's Chaos, Fractint 17

This is part of an animation for a commercial project done at Production City in Mill Valley, CA. The piece represented a near-death experience using stereoscopic video and a head-mounted display, courtesy of Michael Starks and 3D-TV Corp.



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