Summer Vacations - Cephalonia Island

Summer 2013 and I took a lovely 5 day trip in Cephalonia island, Greece, in which I saw a lot of the natural beauty that the island has to offer.

Apart from an awkward daily encounter with bees and wasps, I got to travel in almost the entire part of the island and many of the buildings on the north part were very much influenced by the Venetians.

Also got to see some amazing handmade jewellery that I'm so fond of, made out of gold, silver, emerald, coral and all kind of precious stones!

Finally at the end of all, I met a Serbian printmaking artist called Dragisa Cosic. He was selling his art on a street of Argostoli village and I must say I was amazed by the detail of his craft. Sadly he barely gets by with little money and no recognition.. Nevertheless he said he only has what he needs. 

 

Broadvision Private View - 'The day before'

Getting ready for the private view tomorrow, 23rd of May! 

One day before the big opening and everyone has turned into eager bussy bees! Installations, videos, paintings, presentations... this exhibition truly has a big variety of artistic practises.

 

Little snippets of my work

http://www.broad-vision.info/
https://twitter.com/broad_vision

Steganography: Audio Inside Image

Final stages of my exhibiting work for the BroadVision Data Truth & Beauty exhibition, on 23rd-29th of May 2013.
To see more about the exhibition
http://www.westminster.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2013/university-of-westminster-launches-collaborative-art-and-science-exhibition

The idea is based on Steganography; a term used to describe the art of hiding data within other data. My project is challenging that idea by using two different file formats; audio and image.I gathered and hid recordings of people within their own photographs to express individuality and depth. 

The Boad Vision is publishing it's own 'Petri-Dishes-Guides' to inform and navigate the viewers throughout the exhibition. Have a look at mine.

Audio in Image / Image in Audio

Taking from my last post on illustrating Audio Files and based on Staganography, I decided to put sounds inside images; How do I do that?

When opening an image file in the computer you get multiple codes and numbers, these are the electronic digits that form the picture. The same way you open an image file, you can open an audio file as well. Once you collected the digits of both files, you can insert one inside the other and have a combination of audio and image in one file.

This process can be done on MatLab and thanks to the help of an imaging science tutor at the university of Westminster, I have some live examples to show you!


Example 1:


This..

and this...

Makes this

Example 2: 

This...

And this...

Makes this

Example 3

   

THIS                                      Multiplied                                                WITH THIS

         x

                               

Makes This...

Example 4

 THIS                                           Multiplied                                              WITH THIS

                                                          

                                         

                      

Makes This...

Example 4

THIS                                           Multiplied                                   WITH THIS

                                

Makes This...

Example 4 

      And finally   THIS              mixed with      THIS

     

                       

Makes THIS

Visualising Sounds

How do sounds look like?

That has been a question of mine for a long time, but Photoshop is one way of visually displaying sound as a complex set pixels in several shades of grey.

What's quite interesting here is the difference in the appearance of sounds depending on the tonality, the  pitch and especially if they were edited or not.

Here I have a number of sound samples that I recorded through a noisy day in London. The images are all exact representations of the sounds as presented in Photoshop but some of the sound samples were edited on FineCut Pro.

Click here to here to hear the recordings. Slide down to see the images while you're doing it.

     

Broad Vision 2013

So I've been taking part for the 2nd time in a row at Broad vision collaborative project and I'm really happy I decided to do so!

The project is expanding more and more each year, this time gaining a wide recognition from
The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/mar/19/art-students-find-beauty-in-science
Welcome Collection Gallery http://www.wellcomecollection.org/
The Art of Science blog http://theartsofscience.com/2013/03/04/broad-vision-2-book-launch/
and GV Art Gallery.

I've been involved in some great workshops this year, working with Color Science experiments, Photograms, Illustration and transmitting sound through bananas and pencil drawings using an amazing little gadget called makemakey.

What made the biggest impression for me though was a conversation we had with students and stuff from Imaging Science course at the University of Westminster on Steganography; term used to describe the act hiding data within other data (images, audio files etc).

Data in this case refers to the codes used to formulate an image on a machine. It's a series of numbers and letters that translates to color, light, shape, size etc.

Glich Art was one way of manipulating such data.

What was also interesting, was the way you could glitch audio files by transforming them into RAW files and opening them on Photoshop.

What I thought would be even more interesting is to embed data from audio into image files and vice versa. Ways to achieve this is by using programs such as Processing and MatLab.

Some of my first practise examples of coding at Processing