The image above illustrates the striking alliance today between art and technology, one of a series of computer renderings created by graphic artist Anton Balazh, who lives in St. Petersburg, Russia.
John Markoff described in the New York Times how new research tools are kicking up dust in the archives. Anders Fernstedt’s tool of choice is the high-resolution camera on his iPhone. If he finds a document of interest, he snaps a photo on his iphone and instantly shares his discovery with a colleague working hundreds of miles away. He packs his own substantial digital Karl Popper library on the disk of his MacBook Air laptop computer — more than 50,000 PDF files that he can browse through in a flash.
Alex Korolko in the studio
In just a few years, advances in technology have transformed the methods of historians and other archival researchers. Productivity has improved dramatically, costs have dropped and a world distinguished by solo practitioners has become collaborative. In response, developers are producing an array of computerized methods of analysis, creating a new quantitative science.
Moody Studio filmmaker Alex Korolko is himself a Game*Changer, filming a range of game-changing topics. He earned degrees in electrical engineering and aeronautical engineering in the Ukraine before shifting to filmmaking and new media, where he harnesses his diverse skills, from animation to cinematography, from concept development to music composition. He has 7+ years of experience as a videographer, editor, cameramen, and director on TV, video productions and live broadcast.
Moody Studio is examining the range of tools, including technology and the media that communicates what technology can enable us now to see, such as this eerie underwater film by Laurie Pentland, Diver with the Smithsonian:
Credit: Laurie Penland, filmed at the Smithsonian Marine Research Station on Carrie Bow, a small island on the southern end of Belize.
Pentland’s film, set to haunting music, is accompanied by her moving story: “It blew in for two solid days: a flotilla of plastic forks, soda bottles, rubber gloves, and other refuse. I tried to pick everything up off the beach, but when I turned around, you couldn’t tell that I had cleaned at all…. This area is very remote and the trash was blowing in from the open ocean…. From underneath, it looked like a huge, swirling monster. The bright colors of the plastic were backlit from the sun above. I swam up to the trash slowly and shoved my camera straight into it.
“It was only later that I was able to really see what I filmed. I was struck by the contents – all items I personally use at home and mostly plastics. I tried to think of how I could rid my house of plastic…. This experience transformed me in ways that I hope watching this video will transform you.”