The 4K Video Feedback Kinetic Sculpture creates fractals in real-time.
The Light Herder Device is now 4K with analog hue/saturation/brightness/contrast knobs controlling five 4K screens! The operator at the helm of the Device plays god with light and recursion, using high definition analog video feedback fractals to create spirals within spirals, loops within loops, galaxies, cell structures, strands of DNA, trees, insects, tentacled primordial creatures, and classic…
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VIEW ON VIMEO No computers were injured (or used) in the creation of these images. This is a segment of a video commissioned by Filip Ivarsson and Carl Fredrik Emrik to be projected on a loop during their MOMENT Exhibition in Copenhagen, Denmark, on April 25, 2025.
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VIEW ON VIMEO / VIEW ON YOUTUBE Here, live images of fish are used as the secondary input on the Video Feedback Device, influencing the fractals being made. Music: Girls Against Boys, Satin Down St. Vincent, Broken Man (instrumental)
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VIEW ON VIMEO / VIEW ON YOUTUBE Made of maple, mahogany, aluminum, three cameras, five HD feedback monitors, three Roland video switchers, two viewing monitors, two sheets of beam splitter glass, and a video input. The device now has two monitor structures. Both structures have two HD monitors (with analog hue/contrast/saturation knobs) at right angles to one another, with a sheet of beam splitter…
VIEW ON VIMEO / VIEW ON YOUTUBE In this mode of the Video Feedback Kinetic Sculpture, each of the four monitors effects every other monitor, and the image on the left is composed of the image on the right, while the image on right is composed of the image on the left - all at once (they create each other!) - making fractal sets within fractals sets within fractal sets within fractal sets... Here,…
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VIEW ON VIMEO / VIEW ON YOUTUBE This was created before the introduction of the very smooth motion of the linear bearings. This video will be replaced with a better one in the coming days... Music: Danielson, Eagle Pink Floyd, Live at Pompeii 1972
VIEW ON VIMEO / VIEW ON YOUTUBE This is the first collaboration with Stephen Malinowski. In this video I'm using one of Stephen's musical animations as an input to the Device. Read about Stephen on his website , and his Wikipedia page . Check out more of his musical animations on his Youtube channel . Music: Bach, Cello Suite No. 1, 1st movement; Performed by Vito Paternoster
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VIEW ON VIMEO High Definition video feedback has been made before, but this is the first tightly controlled feedback using HD monitors with analog hue / contrast / brightness / saturation knobs. These knobs are normally found only on old, Standard Definition TV sets, and are all-important when making video feedback. The Device has evolved naturally since its first iteration, as have the images it…
VIEW ON VIMEO TV Boy Productions in New York gave me a great deal on some monitors in return for making them a video feedback video with their logo. Thanks again, and here's your video! Music: Wilco, Kicking Television Forward Chronology Reverse Chronology
VIEW ON VIMEO Had a great time in Colorado with the folks of LEAF. Check out part of the performance in this video.
VIEW ON VIMEO This is a portion of the Exhibition video . Check out how this was made here . Bach's Musical Offering used as a tribute to Douglas Hofstadter.
VIEW ON VIMEO This is a portion of the Exhibition video . These images were made with Phase I of the Device.
VIEW ON VIMEO This is a brief ontogenetic overview of Phase 3.5. Phase 3 was the addition of the second monitor structure. Now, Phase 3.5 is the addition of the 3rd Roland Switcher, 5th (rotating) Panasonic monitor, and 3rd camera. Fractals made of fractals made of fractals. Plus, the Insanity Loop! See the previous video shoot with the Device here (and an alternate music version here ). Thanks to…
VIEW ON VIMEO This is the latest build of the device using t-slot aluminum. Here in Phase III two monitor structures sit side-by-side. The fractal made in the right structure can effect the fractal made in the left structure - and the fractal made in the left structure can effect the fractal made in the right structure, and since they are both effecting each other, another feedback loop is created…
I wanted two monitor structures side-by-side to create two fractal feedback loops that could influence one another. Two wooden structures would not sit close enough together, so I built them out of t-slot aluminum (thank you to everyone who donated for making this possible).
VIEW ON VIMEO Check out an alternate version of this video with different music . This is the most recent video, shot almost exactly one year to the day from the project’s beginning. The next phase - two Devices side-by-side with the output of each going to the input of each, so that two people can create together in concert, connected to each other, becoming one mind. I'd like to thank David…