k. a. bloom

sketches—video cube unit

 

 

_{it's not a fish tank, though that's not a bad idea, it could also be a planter with one side removed.
Bulgari has made an advertising holo-cube but it looks like a transparent computer screen embedded in a thick frame.}
This one
 _{is more interesting.}
 

_{it should be small enough in stature for most people to look down on. it is for looking down at while standing or moving around it, or for sitting on the floor and looking directly at. the sketch of the round-shaped "table" can be adapted to rectangle/square. the electronics would be invisible—built into the base and casements. it would support wireless transmission as well as a rechargeable battery with a 730 hour life capacity per charge (it can be played for a couple of hours every day for a year on one charge). i don't yet know if such a thing exists...but it probably does and ideas evolve. ideally there should be no visible cord connection, a complete standalone. i would like transparent lcd capabilities on all 6 sides of the cube as well as the 3D projection "inside" the cube space.}

 

_{it also is shown as hanging from the ceiling, suspended. more on that later.(as these sketches suggest an asymmetric balance, maybe interesting, maybe not at this point.)}

 

_{i mean it to be made of the type of screen that displays transparent graphics, part of the idea is to "blur the line between function and design", i.e. to create a visual display that has texture and color like a painting and has a more "organic" look—sort of taking two opposing tendencies and blending them. another part is to provide a new kind of visual experience, a "painterly holographic animation" in a really slick techno design electro-sculpture—these are some quick sketches.}

 

 

 

video of four de-congruent squares

These four pieces are part of a series of nine video groups. To be projeced/displayed interactive/simultaneously (installation). Here, the movement of the squares were determined by a set of 100 drawings, random placements of drawings on consecutive animation pages

—footage via frame to frame and action scanning.
 
The sound was composed using a graphic score corresponding to the color and design of the image.
 
The formula allows basic elements of each separate piece to correspond so it is possible to play them separately or in concert or with any variation.
 
For future interactive installation, options to freeze action, print a frame, play individually, or simultaneously. Ideally another sound interwoven would be a random sampling of natural sound near the showplace (contact microphones/recording/audio feed)

inside the box

Inside the Box could be characterized as "outside the box", a video animation done frame by frame the old fashioned way drawn with vectors though they may be, layered and overlapping photoshop in movie mode, very basic. The idea was imaginary holographic boxes and artworks in a museum setting. There are size/scale events like the figures looking at the exhibit, before you see them it looks quite different. When you see them, the art is larger. When the white line figures come in they aren't solid, when they walk back through going out they've materialized hpwever you notice they don't interact with the exhibit, either coming or going, That's just the way it is with perception. And you have to want to care. The art, the animation, the sound/music "Reaching the Summit" produced by K.A. Bloom 2015-2025

 

   

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