Tucker Stilley at Monte Vista Projects

Studio Artist user Tucker Stilley (aka New Jack Rasputan) has an on-going exhibition at the Monte Vista Projects in LA. The exhibition is part installation, part interactive performance. The walls are covered with digital prints of various sizes, rendered in a loose, lively, collage-like style, as well as passages of printed text — fragments of…

Jean Detheux April Updates

Studio Artist user Jean Detheux has recently posted a nice collection of some of his newer Studio Artist animation clips to his web site www.vudici.net. The clips also include some of his live improvised visual performances in addition to the rendered animation pieces. You can check out all this new material at this link.

Creating Photo Mosaic Effects in Studio Artist

There’s an extremely wide range of different photo mosaic style photo effects that can be generated using Studio Artist. These include the traditional regular block photo mosaics to more exotic adaptive irregular shaped photo mosaics or even movie mosaics (movies made up of a collection of smaller movies). The image below is an example of…

Visual Music Marathon 2009

If you are in or near New York City on April 11th be sure to check out the 2009 Visual Music Marathon. The marathon includes works from Studio Artist animators Jean Detheux, Michael Theodore and Dennis Miller. The Visual Music Marathon will be held at the Visual Arts Theatre, 333 West 23rd Street, New York…

Art Pepper’s Studio Artist Music Video

If you have not heard of the legendary alto sax player and jazz musician Art Pepper you really should check out some of his music. And a great way to get started is to watch this new music video put together by his wife and long time Studio Artist user Laurie Pepper.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNQgVMM4YxU Laurie uses…

Simulating Pantograph Relief Etchings

Long time Studio Artist users know that i’m a big fan of looking for ways to use Studio Artist to emulate various archaic printing technologies of the past. Richard Benson’s book on ‘The Printed Picture’ has a section that talks about the use of the pantograph in the 19th century to make reproductive etchings of…

Paul Perlow’s Letter Project

Studio Artist user Paul Perlow has recently started a series of Studio Artist renditions for the alphabet. I think the quality of the images are quite stunning and wanted to share them. I also like the notion of projects like this that create a situation that provides focus for a series of artistic works. The…

Film Festival Updates

I wanted to mention some recent Studio Artist film festival activity. Studio Artist user Donna Kuhn had her short film Spinning shown recently at the Disposable Film Festival in San Francisco. Studio Artist user Jean Detheux will be screening his new film Shade Recovered at the “Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois” festival. It will screen on…