personal – Florian Thamer

November 10, 2021 — Comments are off for this post.

Rhinotillexomania

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Rhinotillexomania
/ɹaɪnəʊtɪˌlɛksəˈmeɪniə/
"a condition that causes a person to compulsively pick their nose"

Nose-picking or "nasa bora" - besides it's actual meaning - means having nothing to do, at least in the local Austrian dialect that I grew up with.

My ongoing series Rhinotillexomania explores algorithmically generated artificial organisms. Shape, color, size and other attributes are decided by a set of ground rules and then automatically generated and rendered by the hundreds over the course of many hours. I then go through the output and find interesting specimen, taking note of their attributes and tweak the algorithm to generate more organisms, slowly steering it towards what's aesthetically pleasing.

The act of setting up the rules, hitting render and having having nothing to do but wait (nasa bora) until the next day to be able to judge the outcomes has a wonderfully slow and analogue quality to it, similar to how wild-life photographers set up night-vision traps to capture the shiest forest creatures, then returning to check their cameras the next day only to realise that the focus was off (which definitely also happened here a couple of times).

In October 2021 I got a selection of these organisms printed on postcards and sent them to 50 of my social media followers around the world, together with little haikus I wrote (some of which were really funny if I dare to say so myself)
If you happen to read this and want a postcard too shoot me an email, I might still have some left (I'll pay for it of course).

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Escalation

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Escalation

Videoinstallation
Duration: ca. 17 Minutes

A human lifetime is on a vastly different scale to earth's deep geologic history. Epochs of evolution have created our complex ecosphere but we are now witnessing its collapse. The escalation of human activity is creating ecological breakdown yet, in our age of acceleration, it is rare to slow down long enough to see what is happening before our eyes and within our grasp. In a city like London, the pace of consumption is the same as in a busy gallery where it becomes difficult to engage with what is happening to our planet. Amidst a growing number of storms, the system in front of you is collapsing, whether you decide to witness it is up to you.

The visuals are designed around 24 datastreams from global ecological and geopolitical phenomena (e.g. CO2 ppm in the atmosphere, average mass of glaciers, world population, GDP, Micro-plastics in the ocean, military spending, ozone depleting substance emissions, global meat production). This data is fed into the system until it takes over and rips itself apart.

The artwork was shown in the exhibition Mars & Beyond in the Bargehouse Gallery, London, UK from 22 Feb to 15 Mar 2020 - just as the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic started to grind the economy and life as we knew it to a halt.

Technical Details:
The artwork was created in Maxon Cinema 4D using the X-Particles Plugin, rendered in Redshift, postprocessed in Blackmagic Fusion and Adobe After Effects

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May 2, 2016 — Comments are off for this post.

Boboshit

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Birds Of A Feather

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Move Rise Flow

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