Five David Bowie videos, focus-stacked

Merging music videos

January 2017 - online

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Extending the Focus Stacking technique, where multiple images are merged so that the only the sharpest edges remain, to extracted frames from five music videos. The music tracks were overlayed in the normal manner.

Made using Enfuse.

More experiments with digital images at the Birmingham Open Media lab:

A tour around my face: Portrait photography with a microscope. (2017)

Smiling in a Room: Alvin Lucier meets FaceApp (2017)

R(AW)NN: New Robert Anton Wilson texts generated by a Recurrent Neural Network (2017)

Pictures from Dorian Gray: Generating images from a novel using an AI system trained on a photographic archive. (2017)

SIMULACRAMOMA: Maximum object detection on the Moma collection. (2017)

Five David Bowie videos, focus-stacked: Merging music videos (2017)

Auto-blending 2016: Focus-stacking the "best of" photos from news sites. (2016)

Fuck Your Flags: Pixel-sorting the nations of the world into irrelevance. (2016)

t-SNE: Algo-sorting images into aesthetically pleasing grids. (2016)

Foot Camera: Filming a walk with a camera stuck to my shoe (2016)

648 Members of Parliament: All the MPs all at once. (2016)

Golan Levin's Experimental Capture Workshop: An intensive summer school in Aspen. (2016)

Koyaanisqatsi Slitscanned: Swapping the horizontal and temporal axes on a movie. (2016)

Spinning Logos: Destroying corporate sigils using JPEG compression. (2016)

Instabeck: Imagining a lost sculpture using Instagram images (2015)

The Deep Dream of Narcissus: Commentary on Google's Deep Dream machine learning prototype. (2015)

Watchmen, by Brightness: Sorting the panels from the comic book Watchmen by their computated brightness. (2015)

Sitting In Stagram: I am logged into an Instagram account, identical to the one you are in now. (2015)

Which Am I Most Like? Typologies: Exploring shitpic aesthetics through cataloguing a meme. (2015)

Supper Room: Spinning the Last Supper (2015)

Birmingham Open Media Fellowship: Fellowship at arts organisation at intersection of art, technology and science. (2014)

I Am Spinning In A Room: Degrading a selfie by rotating it thousands of times. (2014)

Spectral Songs of the Slitscanned Selfies: What do selfies sound like? (2014)

Flatland Selfies: What do self-portraits look like in one dimension? (2014)

Typologies of Hypernetworked Vernacular Self-Portraiture: A video essay about selfies. (2014)

Next art:

Experimental Capture workshop for BOM

January 2017: Sharing knowledge on weird cameras at Art & Tech Social.

Previous art:

The Droids

January 2017: When is a copyright infringement not a copyright infringement? When the robots can't see it.