Spectacular Society Corporation

why not from monfieur on Vimeo.


Really like this piece by Spectacular Society Corporation.
The work has much in common with some other artists I've looked at on this blog: Al and Al and John Russell. What I like about the video above is the sense that the hardware is failing the software. It looks like what happens when you ask a computer to compute a complex physical simulation. It stutters. Again - and this is a preoccupation of this blog I think - the work exposes the technical foundations that enable and, in this case, disable it. the backdrop is a bit spurious but the collage aesthetic is charming and very much at odds with the perfectionist medium of computer simulation.