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Dirty Power
Robert Lurye
Original: Dirty Power | 4425 * 3017px | 42.9 MB
Original: Dirty Power | 4425 * 3017px | 42.9 MB
Original: Dirty Power | 4425 * 3017px | 42.9 MB
Original: Dirty Power | 4425 * 3017px | 42.9 MB
”Dirty Power“ is a work of personal expression which is in reaction to living in the age of the fatal disease AIDS. The work has obvious and ambiguous meanings which respond to events in my private and public life caused by our sexual-social crisis. This piece was also inspired by my exploration of the often times seductively sexy nature of three-dimensional computer graphics media and its almost ”magical“ abilities. Previously I have worked with pencil drawing, photography and film but having been seduced by three-dimensional computer graphics, I have decided to use it as my medium of choice for this project. My personal approach to using the computer as a fine arts medium is the same as if I were using traditional media; the creative spirit comes from the same place no matter what I am creating or how am creating it. However, I am acutely aware of the unique capabilities of computers and try to make e best use of them as multi-media interactive environments / tools.
The motion picture ”Dirty Power“ was created using an Evans & Sutherland PS300and Twixt animation software written by Julian Gomez. All geometric models were generated using in-house software developed at O.S.U. The frames were rendered on a Convex C1 mini super-computer, and a network of SUN Microsystems computers using TROUT rendering software, written by Scott Dyer of the Ohio Supercomputer Graphics Project. The frames were copied on to an Abekas A60 and then recorded directly on to 1 inch videotape. A Betacam SP master edit was done using a Sony BVE 900 editor by Kipp Aldrich. The music was composed by Ferd Maisel with voice effects by Daveand Linda Haumann. The sound was mixed on a Radio Shack four channel mic mixer by myself. Further software support was provided by John Fujii, Susan Amkraut, John Donkin and Jeff Light. (Robert Lurye)
Technical background:
Dirty Power, 1989, 2'38''
Hw: Evans & Sutherland PS 300, Convex-C1, Sun 4
Sw: Software of the Ohio State University (Twixt, Chalk, Trout)
The motion picture ”Dirty Power“ was created using an Evans & Sutherland PS300and Twixt animation software written by Julian Gomez. All geometric models were generated using in-house software developed at O.S.U. The frames were rendered on a Convex C1 mini super-computer, and a network of SUN Microsystems computers using TROUT rendering software, written by Scott Dyer of the Ohio Supercomputer Graphics Project. The frames were copied on to an Abekas A60 and then recorded directly on to 1 inch videotape. A Betacam SP master edit was done using a Sony BVE 900 editor by Kipp Aldrich. The music was composed by Ferd Maisel with voice effects by Daveand Linda Haumann. The sound was mixed on a Radio Shack four channel mic mixer by myself. Further software support was provided by John Fujii, Susan Amkraut, John Donkin and Jeff Light. (Robert Lurye)
Technical background:
Dirty Power, 1989, 2'38''
Hw: Evans & Sutherland PS 300, Convex-C1, Sun 4
Sw: Software of the Ohio State University (Twixt, Chalk, Trout)
Robert Lurye (USA) was born in 1961 in New York. After having received his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Philadelphia College of Art in 1982, he did his Master of the Arts in Art Education, Computer Graphics and Animation at the Ohio State University. Since 1989 he has been studying Architecture at the Texas A&M University.