Tom Burtonwood

Harlequin, 2010

new piece going to be shown in Territories show @ Vers10n Fest this week in Bridgeport, Chicago. Final version of this will include video component. this animated gif gives u a flavor of the piece and what this video piece will eventually look like.

Opening Of Version Festival
Territories Group Exhibition
@ Zhou B Center (1029 W 35th St)
www.zbcenter.org
7-10pm – exhibition runs through May 3

Opening night of Version 10 begins with Territories, a group exhibition. Meet participating artists and get an advanced look at the festival program ahead. Features work by: Tomas Moreno, Chad Gerth, Hui-min Tsen, Chris Larson, Hideous Beast (Josh Ippel, Charlie Roderick), Tim Graham, Jennifer Mills, Xavier Nuez, Miguel Guzman, Monument 1.5, Alexa Loftus, Peter Feigenbaum, Aron Gent, Aaron Delehanty, Holly Holmes, Before Cake after Dinner, Se Young, Brian Murer, Erik DeBat, Sarah Ross, Bill Mackey, Mike Slattery, Tom Burtonwood, Kariel ( Karri Kuoppala and Muriel Laesser),  Heloisa Escudero, Jeff Zimmerman,  Lise Haller Baggesen, Gitte Bog, Gudrun Hasle, Anni Holm, Berit Nørgaard, & Niels Post.

Curated by Dayton Castleman & Ed Marszewski

(Exhibition runs through May 3rd, Open Sat 12-5pm and by appointment: 773 837 0145)

Permutations 1.0 (second draft)

Wow. this took forever to get in a complete form, scanned in and sequenced. somewhere along the road i lost frames 52 – 55 prior to scanning them in. i’m sure they are around here somewhere but the fact they haven;’t surfaced in day to day activity suggests they may be gone…

eventually i’ll add some noise to this and sign off on it once and for all. i’m pretty happy with this but it’s more important to me as a stepping stone, a marker leading to other cooler, more exciting and mind bending ideas.

inverting of ground came from seeing Alexander Stewart’s recent animations of a similar geometric / isometric direction.

i have to say after a month or so of working on this piece i;m not really all that happy with it. in the spirit of keeping this public “studio” honest and complete i decided to post the animation. it’s hard to say exactly what irks me about this, i think when i started out i didn’t really think about how the different frames would relate in sequence, each frame by itself is exciting and stimulating, but seen together in sequence they don’t really convey the idea i have been shooting for. i culled them down to 7 or 8 frames that seemed to work well together from a possible group of 50 or so. without much further ado i’m going to pull this one off the animation stand and start fresh.

stay tuned.