Soundtrack from the BFI archive

©2009 Royal College of Art

I was inspired to have some experiments after reading about Chaos theory (about dynamical systems that depend highly upon the initial conditions and the consequent unpredictability of the results – often referred to as Butterfly Effect).

I wanted to try to recreate a self-organising (pattern creating) behaviour by setting up a visual feedback loop. The idea was to have this system result in fractal like visual loop that establishes self-generated patterns (as the input feeds on the output, e.g. like the Mandelbrot set does). I used my macbook’s web camera and failed the task but will have another go with better equipment once I lay my hand on a hdmi-dvi converter.

For the time being this is merely an artistic impression.

What can you do if bad drawing day meets long waiting at the airport? The disastrous results below:

Ultraquick, ‘freezing in the cold’ sketches, quality wasn’t a consideration

This is our contribution to the image workshop.
Shot with a Rostrum camera on 16mm film.


Credits:
Laurence Weedy (putting stuff on the table)
Gergely Wootsch (pushing buttons)
David Dixon (technical stuff, lightbulb replacement)
Joe King.


Property of Royal College of Art, London.

The sequence is a series of film strips shot with my Canon AE-1, I scanned strips in and finished the job off with Digital Fusion.

I shot stills of neon lights, a book, and handrails at the Victoria Dock in London with multiple exposures.