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11 February 2006 by nathaniel

Daniel Hirschmann @ Upgrade! Joburg

Upgrade! Joburg 1 - the crowdAs you can see, our first Upgrade! here in Johannesburg was a huge success! Nice big attendance for a Soiree (upgraded), and there was general excitement around being plugged in to a global network of artists and curators, about MTAA and turbulence.org‘s upcoming virtual and physical visitations to our space, respectively.

Hirsch mostly talked about his experiences at Benetton’s creative industry venture, Fabrica. It was interesting to hear about the importance of networking, proposal-writing, quality images and representation of not-yet-formed projects… It was comforting to know that creative industry, like the art world, is also largely based on who you know and how you know them.

Of course, Daniel also spoke about his work in Nice, his upcoming show at the Pompidou, and some of the projects he proposed that may one day yet get produced. Mostly, his energy, can-do attitude, excitable charm and technical know-how made the day – a personality that kept us all on our toes….

Upgrade! Joburg 1 - Daniel Hirschmann
Daniel Hisrchmann @ Digital Arts, WSOA. photo credits: me

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04 February 2006 by nathaniel

moCo (mobile Compressionism)

This just makes me smile: ‘action Jackson’ (Compressionist scanner / appendage) strapped onto my bling bling of a bike, ready to hit Johannesburg, South Africa (click for larger image).

Compressionism is a digital performance and analog archive. In the current studies, I compress bodies, spaces and objects by traversing their surfaces with an image scanner, along varying 3-dimensional paths – literally, I glide, run, hover and swoop across windows, trees, or lilies while the scanner head is in motion. The resulting digital images, which are transfigured down to the size of a small piece of paper, are then re-stretched to their original size, sometimes cropped or colorized. The final prints ask us to ‘look again’ at the relations between subjects, objects, actions and perceptions.

more at Compressionism.net

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22 January 2006 by nathaniel

more Compressionism

The new text, images and video are up at Compressionism.net. I think the most exciting bit is probably the new video, with some great footage of "action Jackson" and my Compression methods and images – thanks to Franci Cronje, Nicole Ridgway, Lara Rivera and Colleen Alborough. "action" is the new custom-made and fully portable appendage for 360-degree Compressionist scans, and there’s a great stop-frame of him from all angles.

Compressionism is a digital performance and analog archive. In the current studies, I compress bodies, spaces and objects by traversing their surfaces with an image scanner, along varying 3-dimensional paths – literally, I glide, run, hover and swoop across windows, trees, or lilies while the scanner head is in motion. The resulting digital images, which are transfigured down to the size of a small piece of paper, are then re-stretched to their original size, sometimes cropped or colorized. The final prints ask us to ‘look again’ at the relations between subjects, objects, actions and perceptions.

 related: thanks to Daniel Hirschmann for pointing me to this Boing Boing post about Mike Golembewski’s scanner photography (currently down from linkage overload; mirrored at http://www.findacomputerguy.com/scannerphotography.com/index.html). Basically, he’s turned his scanner into a (very) large format pinhole camera – beautiful stuff!

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20 January 2006 by nathaniel

emmarentia lilies

So, I have finally joined the flickr craze, and started by uploading a handful of images with "action Jackson" – the new custom-made and fully portable appendage for 360-degree Compressionist scans… Will post the latest finished works (as well as all new documentation, text, etc, on compressionism.net) in the next few days. They’re hot…

In the meanwhile, you can check out the aforementioned documentation images with the new "humbnails and links" flickr feature in my sidebar. Woot!

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