Donuts

video
presented as part of Edit Road Movie, 2014

Throb

video
Four Core Chambers, Martina }{ Johnston, Berkeley, CA
September 7th, 2013 – November 3rd, 2013

From the press release:

Nick Lally’s video work Throb (2013) uses Euler[ian] Magnification algorithms* to process film and news footage, and reveals people’s pulses hidden within the video information. The footage cuts between the original videos, processed videos, and stylized animations to reveal unexpected data within the visual elements. This, in turn, invites viewers to re-consider their own heartbeat not as the “original” to which the heartbeat reading is a “copy”, but as a highly relational and contingent piece of information in its own right.

*developed at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

dwg33434

video, custom software
presented as part of soft edges, 2013

girls

RGB

video, custom software
presented as part of building, 2010

A video walking tour of the Digital Arts Research Center is split into red, green and blue channels. The frames of each channel are rearranged according to the intensity of that color, so each video begins with a black screen and gradually increases in saturation.

birds