In case you didn't know, pixelpusher (evan.raskob) is a live video performance artist, or "pixelist" based in London, UK. Click the Info button above for hiring and contact info.
(Exhibition catalog for WAVING / DROWING by pixelpusher)
An interactive exhibition by the multimedia artist, pixelpusher – http://pixelist.info/
I am very pleased to announce my first solo exhibition, WAVING/DROWNING, brought to you by Artsite in Swindon, UK.
This series of works in sculpture, interactive projection, archival digital prints explores the shape of the hand in a series of modern mystical symbols. Their meaning is uncertain, removed from their traditional context: are they waving at us, or flailing in a sea of lost meaning?
The exhibition will run from 24 May to 29 May, 2010 from 11 AM until 4 PM.
There will be an artists talk on Wednesday 26th May from 5PM until 7PM.
There will be a closing reception / private view on Saturday, May 29 from 4PM until 7PM
All these events will be at The Post Modern, Theatre Square, Swindon, SN1 1QN.
From 24 May to 29 May, 2010. Reception on Saturday, May 29.
A very limited number of signed, high-quality exhibition catalogs will be available for purchase at the gallery and artist’s talk, with a limited number of smaller versions given away free to visitors, while they last.
Please email info@pixelist.info if you are interested in purchasing prints of the works, or the works themselves.
by pixelpusher on Tuesday 23 February 2010
[Blog, Visuals, video]
A visualization of each individual word used in twitter status updates overnight from 6PM GMT on Feb 22 2010 until 10AM GMT on Feb 23. Movement is caused by the list of words growing, as the program sees more individual words. Words used more often are larger and brighter (they grow logarithmically). There were a few points where the feed was lost, and it recounted the same status update over and over (you can tell where because the same words grow larger) but I decided to post this version anyway, because I still think it is interesting in this state. I have collected more data, such as word ordering, and will work on another version. done in Processing – source code is here (you need to add your twitter username and password)
The video above is a bit fuzzy – here’s a better image:
A visualization of words used in twitter posts over a single night
by pixelpusher on Thursday 21 January 2010
[Blog, Visuals, video]
I’m working on a music video for a song by PJE called The Employee and doing some tests. The idea is to create the surrealistic daydream of a 1950’s woman on her first day on the assembly line of a dreary, machine-like typist job. I’m doing all the visuals rendered in fluxus, cut with some excellent archival footage of office films from archive.org. This one, a 1950’s film called “Office Etiquette” is singular for having some really nice, sweeping, tracking chots mixed with good close-ups, which work well in a music video. The original has such a cheery attitude about mind-numbing, repetitive busywork that is practically crawling on its knees and begging to be subverted.
I will first cut the video as a straight music video, with close/wide/tracking shots and clean cuts to the beat, then add in the surrealistic, colorful 3D animations done using fluxus and bit by bit break down its sanity. Look here for more…
