This effect was created in Adobe After Effects. I’ve been experimenting with video recently, partially because I’m the visual consultant and video producer for the upcoming theatrical production of “The Pleasure Dome”, directed by Andrew Starner and David Harrington.

After acquiring a room full of stuff the next stage was to decide what to do with it, and then to compose the work, and create more work from that.

The chance operations component in a sense was a use of surrealist techniques where random actions are performed and then the artist produces work using that with the potential of creating “happy accidents,”
or “synchronicity,” or “resonance,” (or insert analogous word from the philosophy of your choice here.)

And by using chance operations the artist can incorporate elements into the work that s/he would have never consciously chosen or come up with–in the hopes of creating truly unique combinations.

See “cut-up technique,” and”aleatory.”

Click one of the images to see the gallery.