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#37 is composed of dramatic, cold abstractions in motion; to describe them as kaleidoscopic would trivialise their complexity and sentience. There is much magick, certain images reminded me of tiny microscopic or subatomic phenomena, others were galactic. I felt most emmeshed when the images changed imperceptibly on the small scale yet fundamentally on the big glom (alignments suddenly appear). Sometimes to my perception they were just moving geometries, sometimes, I felt like I was watching the bleaching of a Kardashev II civilization, or esoteric Bodhisattvas praying in coordination, arrayed in scented parterres.
The progenitors of this film were James Whitney's early computer-based works, Lapis (1966) and Wu Ming (1977). The relation with Lapis is visually very clear, although that film pulses much more quickly and has a much "warmer" soundtrack. I haven't seen Wu Ming and so rely on Joost Rekveld, who has written that it is much more aligned in tempo, "Wu Ming is a masterpiece and its radical slowness had a direct influence on #37".
2009 was also the year Bill Alves did his remarkable short film "Breath of the Compassionate", which those interested in #37 and James Whitney's work should seek out. The aesthetics in all of these films are very similar to those found in the geometry of Islamic decorative arts, and also reminded me of Penrose tiling.
Rekveld's visual work on this film was created by simulating multi-dimensional particles using software, and then recording the results of another simulation, the effect that X-ray crystallography would be simulated to have on these particles.
The progenitors of this film were James Whitney's early computer-based works, Lapis (1966) and Wu Ming (1977). The relation with Lapis is visually very clear, although that film pulses much more quickly and has a much "warmer" soundtrack. I haven't seen Wu Ming and so rely on Joost Rekveld, who has written that it is much more aligned in tempo, "Wu Ming is a masterpiece and its radical slowness had a direct influence on #37".
2009 was also the year Bill Alves did his remarkable short film "Breath of the Compassionate", which those interested in #37 and James Whitney's work should seek out. The aesthetics in all of these films are very similar to those found in the geometry of Islamic decorative arts, and also reminded me of Penrose tiling.
Rekveld's visual work on this film was created by simulating multi-dimensional particles using software, and then recording the results of another simulation, the effect that X-ray crystallography would be simulated to have on these particles.
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- Nov 8, 2021
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