Commissioned by www.hidrazone.com
Gloryhole is a project that aims to fuse Simon Mills’s interest in using randomness to explore meaning and affective intensity in multimedia art with Catherine Byron’s poetry.
http://www.hidrazone.com/artists/simon_mills/gloryhole/gloryhole.html
A response to Walt Whitman’s poem from Leaves of Grass, I think I could turn and live with the animals
An exploration of fear and sublimity when the subject experiences the organic as profoundly other
A reaction to the concept of nature in a technologised landscape
An experiment with spontaneous meaning-making using the random juxtaposition of image and word
Lights down/sound up
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This piece was created for projection so is best viewed sitting a little further from a computer screen than usual
“The processing may be digital - but the analog is the process.”
Brian Massumi
A web project by Simon Mills & Alan Sondheim
‘As the stunted attention-span of the mainstream-media loses focus on the remains of “Battlefield Iraq” we felt a place was needed to retain the memories and feelings of anyone affected by war (potentially anyone).’
http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/warroom
Filed under: Creative New Media — Simon Mills @ 1:45 pmA web project by Simon Mills & Alan Sondheim
A collaborative web project with writer/artist Alan Sondheim which invites further collaboration from the internet audience regarding the subject of loss.
Filed under: Creative New Media — Simon Mills @ 1:51 pmHere are a selection of images I’ve created for postcards:
Winter sunset through trees
Oak Leaves
Winter Trees
Sculpture
Winter Trees II
Filed under: Creative New Media — Simon Mills @ 1:58 pmWhilst rooting around some folders on an old PC the other day I rediscovered an old portfolio of commercial work I made a few years back. Pretty much all of the websites I worked on have all changed or gone offline now. So it goes . . .
http://www.ultimateconcern.net/old_portfolio/
Filed under: Creative New Media — Simon Mills @ 2:13 pm