Digital Piracy - Etiude 4

As for this module I will be creating a 3D animation of a beach with a sea waves hitting the shore, nice blue sky and sun behind the horizon:) This idea was not taken out of the blue. Recently, our group of Digital Artists decided that the theme for the Degree Show is the 'Digital Piracy' what we (ass a group of contemporary artists) are trying to achieve is to explain to the visitors of the show what we see as digital piracy in the XXI century. It is rather sharing the code as open-source and sharing experience as a community opposed to stealing the software and abusing copyright law. We need to be understood as a fast-growing, enthustiastic community of modern artists and not as hackers or impostors. As Alexei Shulgin, Russian born contemporary artist, explains in his book 'Read Me: Software Art&Cultures', 'software art is a practice that regards software as a cultural phenomenon that defines one of the principal domains of our existence today'.
Alexei Shulgin is an artist who created 'Super-i Real Virtuality System'.





Shulgin's idea incorporates a neat design - VR goggles and a small image-processing box, it does not even need a computer. The visual effects are rather simple as producing some kind of filters that are used in Adobe Photoshop. Hmmm, I wonder how much money did he spend buying the goggles. It bugs me because I am trying to have something cheaper but less extravagant.

This week and next few days, I will be creating a 3D animation which I will then render into a short movie. Like it is written above, it is a beach:) I am more concerned about the possibilities of the projection. Hmm, maybe some of that will help - Throwable Display for Gaming. Rather a complicated idea but it did not take long to be recreated by Johnny Lee into a piece called 'Foldable Interactive Displays'.



Moreover on the topic - these are useful sites for any creative 3D artists.