BLOG PROMPT SIX: Kinetic Images
Indirect Flights (2015) by Joe Hamilton and various websites (2001-Present) by Rafael Rozendaal
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Please share your thoughts regarding these works, which explore the web in a light-hearted, aesthetically driven way.
Indirect Flights by Joe Hamilton: http://indirect.flights/
Rafael Rozendaal: https://www.newrafael.com/websites/
Tasmanian artist Joe Hamilton created "a looping spiral of meticulously layered scenes built from video shots. ... Geographically disconnected locations merge to form a hybrid panorama. ... The piece directly references histories of landscape painting via expressive paint marks lifted from famous paintings. ... Indirect Flights is a response to the impact of digital technologies on the representation of landscape. ... [Hamilton's] work questions our established notions of the natural environment within a society that is becoming increasingly networked."
Dutch-Brazilian artist Rafael Rozendaal sells websites as art. Collectors purchase the domain and must agree to keep the work publicly accessible.
http://indirect.flights/ is such a cool piece! The name is so fitting -- right off the bat, the viewer can tell that it's going to be something unique. But the colors and textures and extreme details are something I was not expecting to see. The site appears to be never ending, as you can move around and constantly find something new. While there are a few repeated images throughout, such as the white bench-like(?) thing with holes, the design is still enticing enough to keep moving around and not tiring of it for quite a few minutes.
ReplyDeletettps://www.newrafael.com/websites/ reminds me a lot of the old Mac programs from the '80s and '90s. I feel like the colors and simplicity make you feel as if you're going back at least a couple of decades. I personally really enjoy "shape squeeze" (and definitely watched it for longer than I should have). I really like how one design changes to another as soon as it touches the edges of the computer screen. It really adds to the piece and creates a very aesthetically pleasing, relaxing component to examine/look at. "Egg alone" is another design that stood out to me. It's super simple, yet so relaxing to watch as the egg rotates and rotates and rotates. Unfortunately a lot of the older designs wouldn't pop up as the flash player was blocked, but the thumbnails looked cool!
Overall I really enjoyed both of these works, as the prompt stated they are aesthetically pleasing and quite interesting in that they leave the viewer to questioning and building their own perception of the meaning behind the work.
ReplyDeleteIndirect Flights is beautifully composed and I love how it looks and feels like you are dragging around a map given the traveling context. i love the collage aspect and what it implies about interconnectivity. The textures in this work really stand out to me, I find it interesting how the background appears to be wide and open, far away views of mountains, oceans and gorgeous places. However, the foreground mainly consists of fences and other obstacles which leads me to wondering what this piece is saying not only about interconnectivity but of our access to it. Overall I find this piece intriguing, mysterious, and beautiful.
Rafael's work is probably my favorite sites we have looked at to date. I love that all of these sites it seems their main purpose is to be pretty. Although some are interactive most of them are minimal interaction and don't change the visual or content of the page much at all. Of the sites I looked at it was hard to choose but my top 5 would be: Broken Self, Sad for Japan, Like This Forever, Almost Calm, and This Empty Room. I love his use of color palettes, simple shapes and designs, and even simple interactivity. I find that most of his sites one can find meaning in but I love that there is no implied meaning to them from the start but something each viewer can associate with or relate to in one way or another. Some of the sites I found to be relaxing others fun and some honestly overwhelming. A really great artist I love their work!!!
Indirect Flights seems like a never-ending piece of artwork. With being able to continuously scroll up & down and left & right, you are able see this art in so many different perspectives- almost as if every time you move the image, you create a brand new piece of art. I think that this is an extremely interesting way to make art interactive with the viewer. I find the "mix" of medias to be aesthetically pleasing and very beautiful. I think the mixture of textures and styles are also an interesting component to this website. Everything seems to be pieced together very purposefully and I genuinely enjoy messing with the site.
ReplyDeleteRafael Rozendaal has a very different interactivity with his artwork. Instead of having a collage, mixing textures and styles, he has a more consistent style showcased throughout several different pieces. For the most part, its very simple, but it has such an interesting wow factor that you wouldn't originally expect due to the simplicity. I thoroughly enjoy how each of his pieces give the viewer controlling them the sense of playing a game. Each one is very fun to go through and allows the viewer to interpret what they want from the piece.
Indirect Flights was a really cool piece. The continuous, multi-directional scroll makes for an almost endless amount of unique perspectives. One could essentially see a brand new piece of art every time they go to the website. It's extremely interactive and fun to interact with too. This piece includes some really awesome landscapes that merge into a massive panorama. I loved how this site was pieced together and how to functions.
ReplyDeleteRafael Rozendaal's work was just as cool. I tried out several of his websites. Almost all of them include some type of user interactivity. The designs and "games" are pretty cool once you start messing around in them. The sites might not seem particularly impressive as they look simplistic and you can't do a whole lot within each site, but they are fun to play with nonetheless.
Both Indirect Flights and the websites from Rafael Roxendaal are accessible and somewhat interactive; this is something I noticed immediately. In both you have the option to move around the screen and explore the work, however Joe Hamilton's theme was different from Roxendaal's. I loved the color and texture that combined to create a collage of how we "see" the world, or rather think we see it via the internet. Hamilton plays on the reality that what were actually seeing when we look at the world through the internet is bits and pieces of information that we read as real landscapes. Roxendaal's websites were really interesting to explore, but wen I first looked at the thumbnails it reminded me of Windows "Paint" in how simple, geometric, and colorful the shapes were. It's only until after you explore the websites that you experience the complexity of the site as an experience in and of itself. I also really enjoyed his abstract Haiku's and installation pieces.
ReplyDeleteIndirect Flight is fairly interactive and very aesthetically pleasing. It's like taking a flight and seeing every sight out of your window all at the same time. I love how much texture and color there is to enjoy and compositionally I think its pretty incredible. I think that the connectivity of it is really interesting because it's a point of view that many people are familiar with but it's presented in a much more fantastical way.
ReplyDeleteRafael Rozendaal's work was also really cool. It was a much different aesthetic from Indirect Flights, but was all equally as thoughtfully composed and just as interesting. It's very graphic and bright, and the word that came to my mind the most was "trippy." Its really fun to go through them and I think its important that he makes a point to keep all of his work public and accessible.
Indirect Flights was really fun to explore. Being able to navigate the site and fund multiple perspectives was interesting. I liked how the artists chose to intentionally obstruct the views of the nature elements regardless of where they are in the page.
ReplyDeleteRozendaal's work was very bright and happy. It reminded me of Mac screensavers- very brights and smooth and movement. All of the artwork was very relaxing. "Egg Alone" was my personal favorite because I really love eggs.
Joe Hamilton’s creation of Indirect Flight was an interesting website. It is very visually complex, and I like the concept of our increased networked society. Pairing this odd navigation with the endless landscape really is a cool idea as it addresses the underlying concept that the advancement of technology is confusing and never ending and taking over the natural scenes of the world. The meticulous detail and layering and composition of the piece is impressive and looks like it took a lot of time.
ReplyDeleteFor Rafael Rozendaal’s websites, my first response is how simple they were. However, I know it takes a lot of intelligence to know how to create images with coding. As I started going further into the list of websites, I started to appreciate the process and the outcome. The websites include movement, specific color, specific shape. He paired these carefully to create individual works of art for each website. I like the interaction, but do wish there was more to interact with. I like how his concept is video game like and has a specific vibe and mood to it. Sometimes it’s more difficult to create pieces that are simple and abstract, so for that I appreciate his creativity.
Indirect Flights is a really cool concept that left me wondering how he did it. I can appreciate the time put into creating this website. I liked the concept of clicking and dragging your mouse to see the different sections of the map and seeing the world from above from many different perspectives. One thing I didn’t like so much was the different objects on top of the map. They feel very out of place and takes the beauty away from the photograph below.
ReplyDeleteRafael Rozendaal’s website was more enjoyable for me. At first, I thought the website was very bland and could be more pleasing to the eye. I really enjoyed the many websites you could click on. My favorite one was the “trashloop.com”, because of how entertaining it was. The optical illusions were really pleasing too. The haiku portion of the website was a fun feature, and interesting to read. I think it’s easy to say this website was more interactive. I think it was unique way to keep all of this work on one website where anyone could see it.
Indirect Flights was interesting because it kept going on forever. It was really seamless and it had lots of depth to it. I think the message was that the beautiful landscape is being obscured by the manmade objects that are being created everywhere. The sound was also a nice touch, although I wouldn't have noticed if I didn't have headphones on and wasn't looking on a computer. I thought it was nice, but it could've had much more to it to make it even more interesting.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed Rafael's site a lot more because it captivated me for a lot longer. There is so much to do, and it's also nostalgic. I can't remember the last time I had to enable flash player on my browser, so that was a blast to the past. All of these sites incorporated movement in some way, and the ones that impressed me the most and fascinated me the most were the ones that involved physics. I really liked watching the collisions.
Indirect Flights was really neat to look at. The seemingly-endless looping images are such a neat effect. Reading the blog posts, I agree with pkittycat, about the message of this website being "...that the beautiful landscape is being obscured by the manmade objects..." The manmade objects, such as fencing, walls, buildings, and random junk are mostly all overlaid over the photos of natural landscape. It makes me want to see more of the natural landscape behind them. Also, I believe the website shows how even with all of this manmade stuff obscuring the natural landscape, it is part of our landscape now, and is still fascinating to explore and investigate.
ReplyDeleteRafael's site was really interesting. His projects felt like they were from the old internet of years ago. I really enjoyed some of his projects, and found some of them really funny, such as egg alone.com, some still.com, and others. Other projects such as extra nervous.com made me uncomfortable to watch, until I stared at it long enough that it lost its effect on me. Overall, I really enjoyed his website art. I'm amazed at how simple some of it is, but how neat it is to look at.
Indirect flights was a really interesting sight to take a look at. Especially with all of the different layers that really made it confusing to tell what exactly you were looking at at any given time. Every time i scroll around the page I always end up finding something that i haven't seen before due to it either being hidden behind another layer or me just not paying close enough. It also highlights the idea that all of the manmade items that we have been creating over the years has started to become just another part of the landscape. Rafael's site on the other had is filled with many weird and different project that he has made over the years. Many of these projects are random sites that are fun to mess around with. My favorite one of the bunch is double pressure.com because it is really relaxing to watch as the shape gradually changes.
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