[spectre] New DVD Release - Spotworks, The Evolution of Visuals

[Joel S. Bachar]

New DVD Release: Spotworks – The Evolution of Visuals

The Blackchair DVD Collection recommends:

SPOTWORKS – The Evolution of Visuals by Scott Draves – only US$15.00 
(with Public Performance Rights)

Experience 87 minutes of hypnotic retinal bliss by San Francisco VJ 
and software artist Spot a.k.a. Scott Draves. Five video tracks sync 
with electronic music by jhno, Spool, dj vordo, and mbb. Three more 
tracks sync with music by techno-violin sensation Kenji Williams (ABA 
Structure), including an original track not released elsewhere. See 
three unique and original styles: Dub Visuals, Electric Sheep, and 
Bomb, each with a documentary explanation. Includes looping tracks 
with solid backgrounds for use by VJs. 

The video is copyright 2004 by Scott Draves and is distributed under 
the attribution share-alike license from the Creative Commons. You are 
permitted to show it publicly and commercially. Each track of music is 
copyright by its creator and is distributed all rights reserved, 
except the Best of 2002 soundtrack by Maribeth Back, which is also 
under the attribution share-alike license.

Reviews:

”With the spiked eye candy and fractal arabesques of Spotworks, Scott 
Draves has significantly raised the bar on digital psychedelia and the 
broader category of abstract animation. His electric sheep are the 
fluttering Gaian spawn of networked computers and genetic algorithms, 
while his visual 'dubs' of Ernst Haeckel's fin-de-siecle scientific 
lithographs add a resonant historical dimension to trippy visuals. 
Mind-melting stuff, and refreshingly devoid of the usual fungal 
kitsch.”
Erik Davis, author of Techgnosis and contributing writer to Wired 
Magazine 

”This isn't just trippy wallpaper -- it's not even just art. This is 
garage-band artificial life. Draves is cooking up a new species made 
of code, decisions and cooperation, and this disc is a petri dish 
swimming with the organisms that deserve to succeed us here on Earth. 
I for one welcome our new a-life masters.”
Cory Doctorow, author of Eastern Standard Tribe and co-editor of Boing 
Boing.

Works include:
1.	kunstformen der nature black dub: based on Ernst Haeckel's 
19th century lithographs, the 
"black dub" is a journey through a zoo of fantastic organic forms. 
This track has a solid background and loops seamlessly for VJ use.
2.	kunstformen der nature white dub: The twin of the black dub 
but with a white background and 
more colorful imagery.
3.	kunstformen der nature 2x2 mix: a remix session of the black 
and white dub tracks, 
primarily based on fractal feedback made with the "2x2 multi" effect 
of the V4 mixer.
4.	arabesques: worlds within worlds dub: a visual dub made from 
historic Islamic arabesques from 
morocco and andalucia. the structure of the animation is based on the 
history (and future) of our universe.
5.	dub visuals documentary: a documentary explaining the history 
and concepts of the "dub visuals" tracks 1,2, and 4.
6.	electric sheep: best of 2002: a continuously morphing sequence 
of "electric sheep", each one with its own genetic code and created by 
a distributed evolutionary algorithm run on screen-savers all over the 
world. This track has a solid background and loops seamlessly for VJ 
use.
7.	death & rain: a remix of the electric sheep by kenji williams 
set to his own music from the "faces of epiphany" album.
8.	believeth: a remix of electric sheep to jhno's music.
9.	sheepumentary: technical, conceptual, and artistic documentary 
about the electric sheep screen-saver.
10.	understand: made with the realtime visual musical 
instrument "bomb", a custom algorithmic sound-responsive synthesizer 
based on artificial life.
11.	inside the bomb: a documentary about "bomb".

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