'Production', 2002-2005

3 channel video with stereo sound.
Computer animation, 16min DVD loop. Edition 5 + 3AP.
Dimensions variable. Computer controlled syching.

2 Lightboxes duratran images

1 poster edition

A series of large format Lambda images 140 h x 180 w cm, 140 x 140, 140 x 210

3 large hand-painted images on canvas (billboards), 210 x 380 cm


Description:

Production is a large body of work that creates a storyboard made from many different elements. Telling the story of 'Electric Orpehus', a boy band construct that emerges from a camp excess of the West Coast pop video, the story imagines a transformation of the male body icon into pure broadcast. Material objects divide and split culminating in a tidal wave of electronic iconography. The project is an imagined story board for a Hollywood film.

Every image is made from free or cheap or swapped pre-existing 3D models downloaded from the internet - what I call 'Digital ReadyMades'. The act of browsing on the internet becomes a method of narrative association between objects. Free sound samples have also been downloaded and are assigned to each object.

'Crowd Roar Ascending', 2002-4
3 channel video with stereo sound.
Computer animation, 16min DVD loop. Edition 5 + 3AP.

Large format Lambdas:

'Turntable Split', 2004. Lambda Edition of 5 + 2 AP. 1400 h x 1800 w mm

 

'Bike Cluster', 2004. Lambda Edition of 5 + 2 AP. 1400 h x 1800 w mm

 

'Studio/Gym/Magenta', 2004. Lambda Edition of 5 + 2 AP. 1400 h x 1400 w mm

 

'Theatre Flood', 2004. Lambda Edition of 5 + 2 AP. 1400 h x 1800 w mm

 

'Turntable Split Animé', 2004. Lambda Edition of 5 + 2 AP. 1400 h x 1800 w mm

 

'Sunrise' & 'Sunset', 2004. Lambda Edition of 5 + 2 AP. 1400 h x 1400 w mm

 

Billboard paintings:

Anthony Gross

Anthony Gross

Anthony Gross

 

 

3 channel video stills:

The end 'credit sequence' is a list of the credits for who made each computer moidel used in the animation.