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Video Art Anthology for $1,020.00

story © Michael Betancourt | published January 12, 2006 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  View Printable Version



movies: AESTHETICS

Video Art in a box. This anthology looks to be quite extensive, and I'd say it's worth looking into, if it wasn't so clearly a collector's fetish item.






 
Hall and Fifer's Video Art book

story © Michael Betancourt | published September 28, 2005 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  View Printable Version



movies: AESTHETICS

Video Art is available for download as a .pdf. Excellent resource of history, theory and artist's writings.






 
Whatever happened to Post Modernism?

story © Michael Betancourt | published August 25, 2005 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  View Printable Version



movies: AESTHETICS

Here's an article I wrote [pdf]. It's not modernism for posts...






 
Still cameras for Animation

story © Michael Betancourt | published May 5, 2005 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  View Printable Version



movies: AESTHETICS

Since traditional animation just shoots one frame at a time, it is possible to do it with a still camera. The Canon Eos can be synched to a computer and all the frames stored there. Some sxamples of animation with it here.






 
Essay on the Aesthetics of Electronic Painting

story © Michael Betancourt | published April 17, 2005 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  View Printable Version



movies: AESTHETICS

This paper focuses on kinetic abstraction as a painting expression appropriate to computing. It begins by describing the futuristic ambitions of early twentieth-century painters to create movement. The way in which the forms of computing fulfills those ambitions is substantiated by comparing the two kinds of art. The third section presents some of the artists who program paintings.