“Reflex” 2006
Images | Video “Reflex” is my latest improvisational work. It is a creative departure for me since it involves both the creation of sound and image simultaneously. “Reflex” stands out as a generative...
View Article“Resurfacing” 2006
Ben Bogart & Donna Marie Vakalis Images | Prototype Video | Installation Video Resurfacing Website | Resurfacing: Byward Market Website “Resurfacing” captures and archives snapshots or moments in...
View Article“Memory Association Machine: Study of Cognitive Processes #1″ 2007(aka...
Images | PDCON07 Paper | PDCON07 Video “Memory Association Machine” is the first prototype in a series of site-specific responsive installations. Rather than depending on the artist to define how these...
View Article“Dreaming Machine #1″ (prototype) 2008
Image | Video Documentation | Dream Video Can a machine dream? Dreams are a complex interaction between our bodies, minds, memories, and experiences. “Dreaming Machine” is a trajectory of...
View Article“Self-Organized Landscapes” 2009-present
View Landscapes “Self-Organized Landscapes” are collages composed of thousands of closeup images. The arrangement of these images is determined by a “Self-Organizing Map”, an approach to AI that...
View Article“Self-Organized Portraits” (2009-present)
View Portraits “Self-Organized Portraits” is a series of portraits composed of thousands of closeup images. The arrangement of the images is determined by a “Self-Organizing Map”, an approach to AI...
View Article“Dreaming Machine #2″ 2009
Video Documentation (Hong Kong) (10MB) Video Documentation (São Paulo) (183MB) Dream Sequence (Montréal) (83MB) Selection of Dreams from Hong Kong, São Paulo and Montréal (340MB) Can a machine dream?...
View Article“Step & Repeat #2″ 2009
Video Documentation “Step & Repeat #2” is a recreation of “Step & Repeat” (2003) using Arduino and high-resolution video.
View Article“Typographic Entanglement” 2010
Jonathan Aitken, Greg Corness, Ben Bogart, Kristin Carlson & Rayann Gordon Video Documentation This performance represents a continuing exploration of the role of kinetic typography in live...
View ArticleAn Artist in Process:A Computational Sketch of Dreaming Machine #3
Results of the mini-residency and exhibition of work in progress towards Dreaming Machine #3 at New Forms Festival 2012. Video Documentation: Selected Images:
View Article“Floatscript” 2005
Prototype Video | Exhibition Video “Floatscript” is an interactive installation. The viewer is greeted to a touch-screen. The image of the screen shows a number of small words subtly floating in the...
View Article“Watching and Dreaming (2001: A Space Odyssey)” 2014
Video Excerpt Watching and Dreaming (2001: A Space Odyssey) is a two channel generative artwork whose image-making processes are informed by an Integrative Theory of perception, mental imagery, mind...
View Article“Watching (Blade Runner) (Work in Progress)” 2016
Video Sequence A (250MB) | Video Sequence B (180MB) Watching (Blade Runner) (Work in Progress) is one channel of what is envisioned as a two channel generative video installation that was the focus of...
View Article“As our gaze peers off into the distance, imagination takes over reality…” 2016
The relation between the world as we see it and the world as we understand it to be is all wrapped up in abstraction, the act of emphasizing some details in order to dispense with others. My artistic...
View Article“Watching (Blade Runner)” 2016
Promo Package (PDF) I think of subjectivity and reality as mutually constructive. Cognitive mechanisms impose structure on reality in the form of imaginary categories that inform prediction and...
View Article“Through the haze of a machine’s mind we may glimpse our collective...
Promo Package (PDF) “Through the haze of a machine’s mind we may glimpse our collective imaginations (Blade Runner)” is the result of a machine subject reorganizing the pixels and audio samples from...
View Article“Watching (2001: A Space Odyssey)” 2018
“Watching (2001: A Space Odyssey)” is a revisit of Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” using the same generative methods from “Watching (Blade Runner)” (2016). In this case of this work, the...
View Article“Watching (Blade Runner; 2001: A Space Odyssey; TRON)” 2018
As part of the “Watching and Dreaming” exhibition at the Surrey Art Gallery TechLab “Watching (Blade Runner)” (2016), “Watching (2001: A Space Odyssey)” (2018), and “Watching (TRON)” (2018) where...
View Article“Percepts from Watching (Blade Runner; 2001: A Space Odyssey; TRON)” 2018
As part of the “Watching and Dreaming” exhibition at the Surrey Art Gallery TechLab. Three 47″ x 47″ light-boxes were produced thanks to the support of the British Columbia Arts Council. Each light-box...
View Article“Watching (TRON)” 2018
The third in the series of “Watchers” following “Watching (Blade Runner)” (2016) and “Watching (2001: A Space Odyssey)” (2018). For this work, the approach was the same as used in the 2001: A Space...
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