Z/Z/Z/ – Archiving film, animation and videogame image analysis

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S.T.U.N. Runner – Z-Projection of Maximum Value for Each Pixel

Z/Z/Z/ is a project hatched by Daniel Rehn and Sarah Caluag dedicated to "describing the dimension of cultural artifacts that are difficult to explain using natural language". This endeavour deploys a custom visualization workflow to break down footage from film, animation and games and reconstitute this source material into stills and animated GIFs using a range of image analysis techniques. This playful and technically-minded approach to remixing media has yielded an ever-growing database of case studies which includes many important precedents (John Whitney's "Catalog", Stanley Kubrick's "2001, A Spacey Odyssey", "Astroids" etc.). Daniel and Sarah recently chatted with CAN about their work and they've provided us with the following overview of their research.

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Stephen Cornford takes an obsolete media format for a spin

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Polybius by James Houston – Dead media played as a musical instrument

Scottish artist and filmmaker James Houston utilises dead media as a musical instrument in this latest video with Julian Corrie who wrote and performs the song.

Ghost City – Video installation by Hugo Arcier

Created by Hugo Arcier, Ghost City is a video installation reinterpreting the set of the very popular game Grand Theft Auto V. The spectator is plunged into an environment without any population using the camera’s front clipping plane as a tool to reveal structure hidden within GTA landscape.

CLOUDS – Code, Creativity, and Immersion

An interactive (and immersive) documentary on code and creativity,  Jonathan Minard and James George’s CLOUDS is an ambitious project that is several years in the making. CAN donned an Oculus Rift DK2, explored its landscape and has weighed-in with a review.

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