Archive for ‘Graphics’
Fashionista series was a side-project completed during my stay at the Millay Colony for the Arts in Austerlitz, New York. I dug a musical hole and spent most of my time thinking about metatonal music theory, that mysterious mystic chord, MASS MoCA, and yummy caramel popcorn recipe. I woke up. Fresh. Harvested some musical notes. Or played with some graphics while waiting for those shier music notes to finally call...
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piu piu, a series of cutesy generative graphics, was a quick and delightful study of randomness. The concept was propagated from a technically horrendous practice-sketch made with a somewhat out-of-control intuos4 pen tablet. The process of translating visual cues into the generative code was zesty, a bit like Philip Glass's Metamorphosis cocktailed with few drops of Haydn Symphony No. 94 "Surprise".
More →Sphere V | 2009 | Jen-Kuang Chang I was editing one of my old graphics like a seriously-sleepy baby Bottlenose Dolphin while a line from Federico Fellini's 1954 classic film La Strada precipitously overrunning my psyche. Il Matto, played by Richard Basehart, said to Gelsomina, played by Giulietta Masina: I am ignorant, but I read books. I floated in the endless waves of Richard Basehart's line, occasionally respiring for...
More →Un peu de | 2010 | Jen-Kuang Chang “Allison Hayes is the best!” She declared it as if she just signed the Inter-Galactic Peace Treaty and brought the everlasting peace to the world all by herself, proudly instructing me to watch Nathan H. Juran’s film Attack of the 50 Foot Woman. Miss Hayes’s gigantic role in this 1958 science fiction feature, I am afraid, is sure to rampage my...
More →Forte III | 2009 | Jen-Kuang Chang She was eternally blah-blah-blahing about Erik Akkersdijk, the champion of Speedcubing who solved Rubik’s Cube puzzle in oh-my-goodness 7.08 sec. as her up-to-the-odd-minute idol. It was 10:21 pm; my neighbor was playing Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer recording like there-is-no-tomorrow; and my pet baby kangaroo was super-late for her beauty sleep. “Yawn.” I said and fixed my eyes on Yōjirō Takita’s 2008 film...
More →Aura II | excerpt | 2010 | Jen-Kuang Chang I suddenly woke up in the middle of a very dark and cagey night. Scared. After a cold, bushed February stuffed with several gigantic snowstorms and oh-one-more-bonus-gigantically-gigantic-snowstorm-just-for-you, the sound of midnight rain seemed incomprehensibly monstrous to me. I took an instant shower, fed Tuck & Patti’s scrumptious album Tears of Joy to my auditory hungriness, and began to grill asparaguses with...
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