DOUBLE HELIX COLLECTIVE
Double Helix Collective is an interdisciplinary new media performance project by Sabrina Lastman (Sound) and Petronio Bendito (Visuals). The collective explores visual poetics of the intersection of music, light, shadow, drawing, software, videoart, ritual, improvisation and poetry. In the performances, body and technology are in constant figure/ground negotiation. Central to its aesthetics is the notion of human and digital processes as a way to reclaim the physicality and accountability of the human expressive experience in a world increasingly automated.
Project's website: doublehelixcollective.net
NATURAL DISASTER COLORS by Petronio Bendito
I have undertaken the task of reconstructing images of pain and despair into new expressions of hope and, dare I say, beauty. For the Natural Disaster Color series, I've devised color schemes based on natural disasters such as the earthquake in Haiti, landslides in Brazil, or the tsunami in Japan. The process of making these works is a metaphor, or a meta-experience, of the basic human longing to overcome pain, to turn darkness into light, despair into hope, sickness into health, sadness into joy... to let go.
Project's website: http://www.naturaldisastercolor.net/
COLOR CODE EXCERPTS by Petronio Bendito
MInicards and Notepads
The minicards and notepads are individually customized. Each piece is a variation of a theme. The works vary from 3"x5" up to 5"x7" and is signed with the artist initials and dated. Each excerpt is accompanied by a back sheet which included brief statement about the artist and the color code series.
The minicards and notepads are individually customized. Each piece is a variation of a theme. The works vary from 3"x5" up to 5"x7" and is signed with the artist initials and dated. Each excerpt is accompanied by a back sheet which included brief statement about the artist and the color code series.
COLOR CODE Background Information
In the COLOR CODE series I explore computational processes to generate expressive color palettes while raising questions about digital color aesthetic.
Through my Computational Color Design research I develop algorithmic methods to produce color palettes for RGB and CMYK outputs. For the “Color Code, Algorithmic Lines” series I use a hybrid process of creation that combines mathematical and intuitive approaches for self-expression. I have found that color palettes generated from RGB planes and cuboids, despite being structurally simple, can produce sophisticated and expressive color palettes. Formalistically I orchestrate via color and shape visual solutions that propose a unified reading of extremes: balance and chaos; light and darkness; structure and spontaneity… I believe that procedural colors will play a major role in art and design color selection processes in the 21st Century.
Artist Monograph: http://issuu.com/petroniobendito/docs/petronio_bendito_digital_color_algo_7dc6123420a23