Hypnotic Tesselations

March 22, 2011 6:18 PM

Topologies is an audiovisual work led by artist Quayola in collaboration with software artist Mauritius Seeger and musician Matthias Kispert, in which high-resolution photographs of Velazquez' Las Meninas and Tiepolo's L’ Immacolata Concezione are reduced to triangular meshes and transformed by sound, made into hypnotic ambient works: Excerpt I (Velazquez) | Excerpt II (Tiepolo).

I recommend viewing the videos in full-screen mode.

posted by Blazecock Pileon (4 comments total)

Wow, these look great! No criticism of the post at all, but this is one of those very rare times when I've felt that I just couldn't project myself fully into something through the screen. Would love to get there in person. Excellent music too.
posted by facetious at 6:36 PM on March 22, 2011

These are surprisingly accurate depictions of what it is like to be eaten by a simplicial complex.
posted by twoleftfeet at 8:03 PM on March 22, 2011

Blazecock, those are beautiful.
posted by artof.mulata at 1:59 AM on March 23, 2011

I like the way they used realistic lighting and shadows to make images that are abstract and intensely physical at the same time. I can sort of see how they transformed the original artworks into the triangulations, but I can't tell where the motion comes from.
posted by moonmilk at 8:09 AM on March 23, 2011