2nd Video Shoot: The God Machine (May, 2021)

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This video is 4K (3840 x 2160) but the images the device creates are still HD (1920 x 1080). Maybe one day they'll be in 4K...

The HD Video Feedback Kinetic Sculpture creates fractals and organic-looking images in real-time, without a computer: this is old-school video feedback.

Check out an alternate version of this video with different music.

This is part sculpture, part performance art, and may make the most complex video feedback ever created, using three cameras, two video switchers, a sheet of beam-splitter glass, and an HDMI input from a phone or live video feed.

Much like a musical instrument, the operator at the helm of this device plays it, but instead of making sounds, makes entire worlds, spirals within spirals, loops within loops, galaxies, classical fractal imagery and primordial organisms, leaves, trees, and insects. It really is the God machine.

The device has evolved naturally since the first iteration, as have the images it creates. This is the most recent video, shot almost exactly one year to the day from the project’s beginning.

The next phase - two Devices side-by-side with the output of each going to the input of each, so that two people can create together in concert, connected to each other, becoming one mind.

I'd like to thank David Kislin and Federico Baldeschi at JEL Developement ​for being nice enough to let me use one of their empty properties (free of charge, no less!) to make this video.

Music: 

"3 Birds" by The Dead Weather
"Starless" by King Crimson
"We Did it Again" by Bongwater

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