Generative abstraction of logos/branding

This was a Processing sketch I made over christmas (while in NY) to show the possibilities of generative animation to represent branding, yet maintain a visually interesting moving piece of abstract art.  It was a test done for Mastercard, the project in the end didn’t happen for whatever reason, but I’d thought I’d share this anyway as I’m quite fond of it and enjoy watching it.

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Mastercard Processing Sketch

Probably the waste of a morning…

Whilst waiting on installing Snow Leopard on my mac in prep for developing the 1.1 update to Zio – I thought I’d have a bit of fun trying to do a Google logo using Zio artwork.  I’m not sure about the results, but it passed the time and was enjoyable watching the app run and waiting for a ‘letter’ to appear before snapshotting it.

I wonder what anniversary Google could celebrate using this, the birth of algorithmic computer art ? the death of human art?

If anyone from Google is reading this – I’m available!

Planetary wonders..

Hello Hello,
Sorry for the lack of posts – I’m just back from New York having spent 2 months developing an exciting film project based on science and religion using the Kabbalah and data visualization of the ‘Bible code’. I’m still keeping details of this under wraps for now, but hopefully will have more to tell soon.

Anyway,  Unrelated to the above, I’ve just done a test visual for a planetarium in a 360 fulldome theatre – hopefully this could lead to a niche outlet for my algorithmic / Processing based animations in planetariums, planet wide.

This dome master image was mocked up from my Metamorphosis video.

At this stage it’s just a test – I’ll keep you posted as to any progress with an actual production project.

360,

Glenn.

Computer Arts – The Pros of Processing

Great opening article in this month’s Computer Arts featuring myself and a few other processing-heads.

I’m chuffed about this, it’s very fitting as this month it’ll be a year’s anniversary since I relaunched this website and re-birthed myself as a digital artist in the realm of Processing and generative animation.  I started reading Computer Arts many years ago, so to get this far with my work inside it is a nice symbolic milestone.

Live Footage of Peter Gabriel Concert Visuals

Here’s some footage, filmed by fans with mobile phones, of Peter Gabriel’s recent South American tour.  I prodcued the animated visuals for the song ‘No Self Control’  - a combination of my work done in Processing and clips from some of my earlier animated films.

The audio/video quality isn’t great, but you can make out enough detail and colour.  There is a running theme of insects, growing vines, pulsating nerve networks and chaotic butterflies.