Category: digital art

The Energy Flow

Artist Unknown, (The Energy Flow of the Amenonuhoko), Computer Graphics, Endless Loop Gifs

Amenonuhoko is the name given to the spear in Shintoism used to raise the primordial land mass, Onogoro-shima, from the sea.

The Kojiki, the oldest extant chronicle in Japan, was composed by Ō no Yasumaro in the early eighth century at the request of Empress Genmei. The chronicle state the Shinto’s genesis gods Izanagi and Izanami were responsible for creating the first land. To help them do this, they were given a spear decorated with jewels, named Ame-no / nu-hoko (heavenly / jewelled spear) by the older heavenly gods. They churned the sea with the spear. When drops of salty water fell from its tip, the drops formed into the first island, Onogoro-shima.

Fong Qi Wei

Fong Qi Wei, Gifs from His Series “Time is a Dimension”

Fong Qi Wei is an photographer and computer graphic artist based in Singapore.

“For me, Time in Motion adds more questions about what time is, compared to Time Is a Dimension. Is this how simultaneous instances of time can be perceived coherently? Are the ‘time tunnel’ GIFs showing light being slowed down? Who knew time could be so trippy?”- Fong Qi Wei

Yang Yongliang

Digital Photographic Artwork of Yang Yongliang

Yang Yongliang, a young artist from China, combines traditional Chinese Shan Shui (literally, mountain water) art with digital techniques to create “ghost landscapes,” which offer a dreamy techno vision of man and his environment. While the videos and pictures have a striking sense of harmony, they are also somehow unsettling. Industrial images, pollution, and waste have replaced the traditional country idyll.

“The city is the place where I live, a space that evolves with me and which contains my memories. A mirage or ghost-city is the environment towards which I reach out, but it only exists in my imagination. The water of the mountain (the landscape) suggests the imitation of the traditional art forms of my childhood, which have gradually disappeared as the city and I have evolved.

The birth of the Ghost Landscape is not an accident. The city, the landscape – I love them and hate them at the same time. If I love the city for its familiarity, I hate it even more for the staggering speed at which it grows and engulfs the environment. If I like traditional Chinese art for its depth and inclusiveness, I hate its retrogressive attitude. The ancients expressed their sentiments and appreciation of nature through landscape painting. As for me, I use my own landscape to criticize reality as I perceive it.”- Yang Yongliang

Uno Moralez

Uno Moralez, The Burning Mill and Miller

Uno Moralez is a Moscow-based pixel painter with a sinister and unique take on old computer game aesthetics. He is a Russian enigma whose LiveJournal is written in Cyrllic, whose work is both drawn and published in digital pixels, whose output comes in the form of bizarre and ferociously NSFW image/gif galleries as often as comics or illustrations, and whose name is not even Uno Moralez.

Spark

Artist Unknown, “Spark – 180126”, Computer Graphics, Endless Loop Gif

“Finally, the last point that can kill your spark is Isolation. As you grow older you will realize you are unique. When you are little, all kids want Ice cream and Spiderman. As you grow older to college, you still are a lot like your friends. But ten years later and you realize you are unique. What you want, what you believe in, what makes you feel, may be different from even the people closest to you. This can create conflict as your goals may not match with others. And you may drop some of them. Basketball captains in college invariably stop playing basketball by the time they have their second child. They give up something that meant so much to them. They do it for their family. But in doing that, the spark dies. Never, ever make that compromise. Love yourself first, and then others.”

― Chetan Bhagat