Art: Blue in the Bluebird

Video excerpt and stills from 'Blue in the Bluebird' , computer generated video installation by Jen Seevinck, sound by Tim Kreger.

In this work an integrated relationship between form and force follows philosophers Deleuze and Bergson in their writings on matter and space: the ethereal nature of the virtual form is amplified by its eternal becoming (Seevinck, M. Phil. Thesis 1999).

The installed animation evokes a place in the darkness and features computer graphics imagery of birds in flight with abstract sculptural forms and textures guided by the conceptual development and dynamic computer modeling techniques as used in the special effects film industry.Thus the motion of the bird wings is modeled dynamically, by modeling forces such as gravity and wind currents which act on it; i.e. it is derived procedurally through empirical means. This motion articulates objects within the space as well as the motion of those objects within the space: Thus the conceptual space is modeled in 3D computer space as forces which distort sculptural forms over time; likewise the forms distort the forces.