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Visualize a painting on the wall, an intriguing abstract. You glance at it and turn away. The next time you look at it, you notice the painting has completely changed. You begin staring at it and discover that the painting is changing all the time. Images slowly morph, as do colors, shapes and even brush strokes. It’s a living picture in the state of perpetual transformation. The pace of transformation is soothing, the colors are vibrant and the shapes conjure up positive emotional associations. In the background the sound of water, a bird chirping, ambient soundscapes that seem dynamically connected to the images. Is it art or is it therapy?
Canadian artist San Base is a pioneer of a new kind of art that utilizes the classical elements of painting and music, while harnessing the power of computer technology to seamlessly integrate all three disciplines. He named this art Dynamic Painting.
Dynamic Paintings are composed of abstract images and sound in a state of perpetual transformation. The basic idea of the composition remains unchanged, while the computer introduces infinite variations. The picture and sound lives its own life with objects moving and transforming but still following the artist’s original concept.
Dynamic Paintings can provide a form of stimulation that evokes changes in physiological activity to improve health and performance. It is a great outlet for relaxation, meditation and spiritual awareness and stimulates a variety of emotional and mental states that can help alleviate anxiety and treat stress.
| Catalog Number: MC-1105 |
Type: Feature |
Genre: Ambient |
| Copyright: 2009 |
Length: 90 minutes |
Format:
DVD Region: 0 (All) |
| TV System: NTSC |
ISBN: 4466701633 |
UPC: 844667016338 |
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Films In Compilation
April directed by
San Base
Canada,
Ambient,
2009,
00:16:30
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Oasis directed by
San Base
Canada,
Ambient,
2009,
00:18:10
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Welcome to My Dream directed by
San Base
Canada,
Ambient,
2009,
00:19:40
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Jungle directed by
San Base
Canada,
Ambient,
2009,
00:15:05
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Creation directed by
San Base
Canada,
Ambient,
2009,
00:14:55
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Supernatural directed by
San Base
Canada,
Ambient,
2009,
00:15:05
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2010-02-11 bigthink.com
By Bob Duggan
Music and art have long been a magical pairing. Finding the right soundtrack for a painting requires as much finesse as finding the right wine for that special meal. Russian-born, Canadian artist San Base takes that dynamic duo one step further by adding cutting-edge computer technology to make the image literally dance to the music. San Base: Supernatural, from Microcinema DVD, allows you to sit and watch this tremendous trio unfold before you in the comfort of your own home.
Trained as both a cybernetics engineer and a painter, Base stumbled on the idea of his “Dynamic Painting” technique while painting over old paintings thanks to a shortage of canvas during his days in the former Soviet Union. Base noticed that he subconsciously painted in a way that remained in harmony with the original painting. Painting the same image over and over with subtle differences, Base felt he had attained another dimension in his art—the dimension of time. Base then put his computer engineering training to work and harnessed the power of technology to truly achieve a sense of movement over time in his paintings.
San Base: Supernatural features six of Base’s Dynamic Paintings paired with New Age-style music. (You can see short excerpts of some of Base’s work here and here.) Each Dynamic Painting plays out in seemingly infinite combinations over the course of fifteen minutes or more. The overall effect is one of surrendering yourself to the moment—slowing down and allowing the experience to slowly wash over you. Base offers his work as an outlet for meditation, as almost a religious experience that can relieve anxiety and stress. Imagine the Yule Log video, only trippier and infinitely more interesting.
The first Dynamic Painting, April, which is set to music by Alberto Zin, begins simply enough with trees framing mountains and water in the background. The trees move and the water ripples as the skies slowly change color. The trees and mountains subtly change color in concert with the skies. The overall effect is almost Impressionist. Rather than paint a haystack one hundred times ala Monet to explore all the possibilities of light and atmosphere, Base paints it once and allows algorithms to do the rest of the work.
Oasis and Welcome to My Dream, both paired with the music of Roman Surzha, shift from Impressionism to Surrealism. Dalí-esque landscapes leap into motion, minus the ants and melting clocks. The abstract shapes suggest roads, mountains, and plains but twist and contort into whatever your imagination makes of them. Welcome to My Dream, accompanied by Surzha’s ominous music, seems more like a nightmare as haunting figures grow out of nothing to loom above the dreamscape.
Kostya Eqvaro’s music sets the stage for the final two, most spiritual Dynamic Paintings, Creation and Supernatural. In Creation, soaring, almost cosmic music calls us to witness a recreation of the moment of creation, a Big Bang of color and light rippling out from the center to fill the void. Supernatural comes back to Earth with an opening scene of totem-like figures standing on an island shore with other islands in the distance over an expanse of water. Imagine the enigmatic heads of Easter Island rising up and slowly dancing to piano music beneath Technicolor skies. As with Creation, Supernatural strikes a spiritual chord without asking you to sing the hymn of any particular denomination. The god in these Dynamic Paintings has no name and isn’t even the ghost in the machine of computer technology, but the god that stirs within us when our senses unite in such synesthetic moments as San Base’s paintings offer.
In an age when video art and animation art seem to have exhausted their potential to say something fresh, San Base: Supernatural harnesses computerized animation in the name of painting to say something new by speaking to our ancestral needs for spirituality and harmony.
| 2010-01-16 Town Crier
By Kelly Gadzala
You look at a screen on the wall of an art gallery and something starts to move.
The abstract images and shapes behind the glass melt and morph into new and ever-changing designs.
No matter how long you find yourself looking at it, you never see the same scene twice.
What you are seeing is the work of Yorkville artist San Base, who creates what he calls dynamic paintings using mathematical equations and computer technology.
“It’s like life,” he says of his work, which he shows at his newly opened San Base Studios on Scollard St. “It’s unpredictable, it’s endless.”
A former system program developer, Base quit his day job four years ago and started developing his dynamic painting concept. His new venture combines his talent for computer programming with his passion for art he’s been indulging since high school in his native Kyiv, Ukraine.
To create a dynamic painting, Base thinks of shapes and colours and translates them into a math equation in a computer program, then mutates that equation to make the picture change. The process of creating a painting — about two weeks, Base says — requires sophisticated video card and graphical processor technology that didn’t exist until recently.
Though the technology is vital to his work, Base suggests there’s still a creative process involved. Only a human can do the programming, he says, and he still creates in the theme of the painting by generating shapes and colours and scanning them into the computer system.
Base insists his creations are more complicated than computer graphics or digital animation.
Computer graphics, he says, are based on models created by designers that are static and predictable, while his art is based on a different principle: “There is no knowledge of what’s going to happen next,” he says.
The final product can take various forms. If clients have a flat screen TV, then they buy hardware that can be attached to the TV and view the painting that way.
The painting can be programmed to change as quickly or slowly as desired and this version never repeats itself. The pricetag: around ,000.
Less expensive options include a Blu-ray or DVD recording of a dynamic painting that will repeat itself after an hour, or a print of a dynamic painting on a canvas.
Base conceived of the idea of live painting 15 years ago in Kyiv. The economy had collapsed, he says, and art supplies were scarce. He started painting over his old canvases as a result, and noticed he was trying to harmonize the old paint colours with the fresh new colours he was painting over top. He ended up transforming the same painting again and again, he says, but found the process labourious.
Now Base hopes to target design professionals with his live paintings. In the end, though, he does what he does for sheer art’s sake.
“I’m an artist,” he says. “I make it for myself.”
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