Homework# 9 (5) Research an artist who uses video creatively and write a blog entry about it.
On Charlie Behrens's about page on his website this information is provided..
"Charlie Behrens came to graphic design and video art via a background in the music industry. Since graduating from the FdA Design for Graphic Communication at the London College of Communication with Distinction in 2012, his work has been twice featured by It's Nice That, IdN, Computer Arts and The Polis Blog. He was also featured on the Boston Globe's blog.
His video art pieces were screened at the prestigious CGAI cinema in A Coruña, Spain in November 2012 and he will be featured on Canal+ TV Show l'Oeil de Links, in December 2012. In early 2013Poejazzi are releasing a smartphone app of poems visualised by acclaimed video artists which will include a piece by Behrens. He is currently editing the Brighton-set feature film My Accomplice which is due for release in early 2014.
He lives and works in Hackney, London."
http://www.charliebehrens.com/About-Contact
Similar to the ideas of creating art using the glitches in Skype that Jesse mentioned, in Behrens's video "Algorithmic Architecture" creates a video featuring the glitches in google earth.
Algorithmic Architecture from Charlie Behrens on Vimeo.
He explains:
"This short film is inspired by Kevin Slavin’s talk at the Geneva Lift conference last year Those Algorithms Which Govern Our Lives. It uses the weird nuances of when Google Earth doesn’t register 3D images correctly as a metaphor for how our cities’ architectural landscapes are being altered to suit the agendas of a myriad of computer algorithms…"
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