Disconnected Series Space Party
by Joe Michelli
Title
Disconnected Series Space Party
Artist
Joe Michelli
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Image
Description
Background:
I make these wild looking YouTube music videos utilizing composited and layered images from old films and video. When making them, I bring together imagery from a wide variety of sources that I then heavily manipulate to my artistic satisfaction as to make them nearly unrecognizable from their original state.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQrBvvZT5mQ0rBHIgLU8_gg
As an artist from Chicago, I have been influenced by my fellow SAIC alumni Ed Paschke (who I deeply venerate) and keep in mind when I make these visual concoctions. I first started making videos like this from the time I was a “VJ” at a notorious night club “Medusa” for play in their video room the mid-80’s. With no digital technology back then I used slide projectors, random 8mm films (that I got from 2nd hand stores) which I then “mistreated” chemically and often scratched up to create “glitch-y” textures over the top of projected videos that I previously edited together with scenes from both old and new-ish films. At the time I had no conceivable way to document those early works.
This technique I developed yielded some very entrancing images. Fast forward to now: I have worked out that I could siphon off still-frame captures from my current work that look captivating in my view. This imagery goes by so fast in video form, many images are only on screen for a few frames. Some of them are haunting and rather evocative. I find these fleeting images just as artistic as if I painted them!
My painterly aesthetic remains in play regardless of whether it is serving a "moving" image, or I am painting it by hand from preliminary drawings.
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October 5th, 2023
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