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Galactic plankton


Space graphic by Mads Dam



Galactic plankton
Most types of galactic Plankton drift silently in interstallar space. It spends 99,99% of its lifetime in a dormant state, dreaming of light. Awakes only when a nearby star blossoms into a nova, drowning space with light. Within seconds Plankton multiplies into millions of copies devouring most of the photons that would otherwise have flooded the skies. In short, thanks to Plankton the nightsky remains black...


Nano Art


A new kind of images

NanoArt is a new art form where micro or nanosculptures created by artists or scientists through chemical or/and physical processes are visualized with powerful research tools like Scanning Electron Microscopes. Mono-chromatic electron microscope scans are processed further using different artistic techniques to create pieces of art that can be showcased for the general public. Read more...

Nano Art

The worldwide competition NanoArt 2007 is open to all artists 18 years and older. Submission deadline December 31, 2007. Online voting will open January 1, 2008 through March 31, 2008. Judging is via the Internet and decided by our site visitors. Winners will be notified and published online around April 15, 2008.

3 Electron Microscope Scans are provided as Seed Images for you to choose and to create the NanoArt Works. The participating artists will have to alter these images in any artistic way to finish the artistic-scientific process and create a NanoArt work. The artists or/and scientists are encouraged to participate with their own images as long as these visualize micro or nanostructures. Read more...

Website: www.nanoart21.org
Gallery: www.absolutearts.com/nanoart
Blog: nanoart.blogspot.com



Green geometry


Green animation




Art without filter


This is not Charlottenborg

Yesterday I helped one of my friends, Mikala, transporting 6 of her sculptures to the exibition "Charlottenborg without filter". Everything looked more or less normal, until I noticed a feathered figure: an angel walking around...

Charlottenborg without filter - Art exibition in Copenhagen, March

Image and Communication in the Complexity Era


Essay by Ovidiu Bufnila, image counselor

Ovidiu Bufnila, romanian author

The deprivation of huge naval forces found in the bloody, tragic and impressive clenching announces an imperial structure. The difference is prepared. The imperial divers are dipping their harpoon in the Barbarians' blood. But aren't the Barbarians charming beings in the volutes of the world's hidden plan? Aren't they revealing themselves in the rain that came from beyond the visible horizon, modeling new gods? Aren't the Barbarians the ones who understand the truth of the pinky clouds better than the obsolescent savants that don't see the metaphysics in its splendor, only the clumsy piling of some water drops....

Lars Mikkes


Odyssey to Solaris, Denmark

Depart

Thoroughly marked with some of the great themes of art history; thus Mikkes should be recognized as one of those modern artists who try to maintain the role of art as a medium for our questioning and our discussion of the individual’s relationship to the surroundings....

Humans are born colourblind


Your first sight is in black and white

Human children are born into a black and white world. The cones in your eyes don't begin functioning until you are 4 months old. Then vision undergoes a gradual transformation. One out of 40000 never develops cones, seeing only in black-and-white throughout life. (Achromatopsia, or rod-monochromatic colorblindness)....

U F O


Unidentified Fotonic Objects

Every explanation is also a filter.
Every frame leave something out.
Enlighten one thing and another is occluded....

Ray Harryhausen


Quotes and filmography

I was a King Kong addict, went to see it again and again. I loved the way the film took you from the mundane world into the surreal. King Kong haunted me for years, I came out of the theatre in another world. I'd never see anything like that before in my life. I didn't know how it was done and that was half the charm....

René Magritte


Collection of quotes

I don't paint visions. To the best of my ability, by painterly means, I describe objects, the mutual relationship of objects so that none of our habitual concepts or feelings is necessarily linked with them....

Sidney Sime


Master of the mysterious

Sidney Herbert Sime (1865-1941) was an english artist quite famous a century ago, but now almost forgotten. However, the best of his production deserves better. Here's a few examples of the work of Sidney Sime - master of the mysterious, the grotesque, the fantastic. Introduction to Sime
When we had hunted...
The-bird-of-the-difficult eye
The City of Never
The lean high house of the gnoles
I wish I knew more of the ways of queens
Bird of the River
A herd of black creatures
The flight of the Gods of Valhalla
Wild Beast Wood
Hish - Lord of Silence
The dirge of Shimono Kani
Departure of Hothrun Dath
Links to Sidney Sime

Visitor - Liquid photo


The sound of missing silence...



Visitors

Tunnel Sequence


Photos by Lars Mikkes

Tunnel

Copenhagen skies


Atmospheric sights by Mads dam

Copenhagen sky

Mahlers mirror


4 variations of painting by Jørgen Elbang

We all lie...


Graphic by Mads Dam

We all lie in the gutter...



Order and chaos


Living image by Mads Dam

It's all in your mind...

If you see a pattern moving right or left, up or down - it's an illusion. If you see a pattern starting ordered and gradually becoming chaotic, this is also an illusion. In fact, the pattern itself is an illusion...

The invisible man


Goes for a walk...

Starflower


Mads Dam + Mikala Lykke

A star flowering...

The binary forest


An animated scene

The binary forest - Animation

Chrysalis


Living image by Mads Dam

Exospheres


Disturbing the atmospheres

EXO

Cycling towards eternity. These images find themselves somewhere in the limbo between stills and video. This kind could be called "living image", to separate it from motion-picture and still-leben.

Alive but not in a linear fashion. Rather the image consists of a set of cycles, each one displaced a bit from the next. Each single displacement is minute but accumulated it begins to form a pattern. Especially when larger subcycles begin to interfere with each other. The images are a set of cycles, each cycle different from the rest. This creates an enormous number of combinations (more than millions of millions).

A billion years will pass before it repeats itself 100%. Thus the image is only partially visible, as no one will be able to observe the full sequence. Its existence neither real nor a fiction, perhaps more like a phantasm....

Fantastic art


Gallery





Jørgen Elbang Ole E. Petterson Anna Hansen Tanja Bukhave Lars Mikkes


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Fantastic art

Imaginary links




Fonts Fantastique - Klaus Johansens collection of extraordinary truetype fonts

Mirages in the sky - On June 23, 1744, a phantom army appeared floating above a mountain in Scotland. 27 people, who later gave sworn testimony to what they'd seen, watched the strange vision for two hours till it ended with darkness....

Noctovision - Infrared Television in 1926. John Logie Baird was the inventor behind the early television system used in England. He also demonstrated large-screen, colour and stereoscopic television in the 1920s and 1930s and also developed a system for recording the images on disc, Phonovision....

A R T I S T S

Ole E. Petterson - Imaginative realism, Denmark

Ingvar Cronhammer - Danish artist and creator of Elia.

Elia - Worlds largest science fiction sculpture located in Jutland, Denmark

H. R. Giger - Famous swiss sf/horror-artist.

Jørgen Mahler Elbang - Danish painter exploring fantastic realism.

Solaris-odysse - Artistic expedition by danish artist Lars Mikkes

Digital jungle - Graphic expedition by danish artist Mads Dam

A S S O C I A T I O N S

SF+ART - Association of Science Fiction Artists

Meliés - Fantastic Film Festival Federation in Europe.

G A L L E R I E S

Abandon Art - Gallery of the fantastic

Art fantastique - Fantastic Art gallery