My graduation project: Patterns (July 2015)

Originaly, my graduation project was an exhibition of a series of projections and computer prints.

I later put those videos together to make it into a single channel video so I could send it to festivals.

I didnt send it to so man festivals but it did get into some. The highlight was Annecy Animation Film Festival which surprisingly accepted the film into the Graduation competition.

Here is a short text about the piece:

Patterns is a sequence of digital animations in which raw images and sounds are generated by computer algorithms and conformed by the artist into meaningful shapes and sounds.

The piece's premise is that the digital medium is a world. A world to be explored and cultivated by the artist. It is a world because it is a platform for the existence of beings and events. It is an alien world with different natural laws; It is a discrete world in which atoms are pixels and single audio samples and in which forces are computer processes which manipulate the digital matter. Before it is cultivated by the artist, this world is incomprehensible to human perception. The end product is a strange combination of familiar and alien. It gives a feeling that there really is a world out there, inside the computer. Maybe it is the afterlife, maybe it is a refuge.

an Excerpt:

Patterns - Excerpt from Shahar Davis on Vimeo.


and here is a view from the actual exhibition at The Bezalel Academy on July 2015.
Overview from Shahar Davis on Vimeo.

Here is an interview about the piece during Annecy Animation Film Festival