Alan Woo

Des magnifiques images et un super sens de la mise en scène!

Faut le voir plutôt comme une sorte d’expérimentation, sans forcément un sens profond derrière :)

La première image est en tout cas très réussie!

Hello!
First of all, thank you for linking to me. I was just notified of this by a friend abiabiabi.com.

From my poor French, I can understand there is some confusion as to the intent behind my current work. First of all, these are primarily aesthetic experiments towards understanding my thesis more. I am inspired by late-eighties/ early-nineties computer-driven aesthetics that almost seemed to define a generation of design or visual arts (in a particular field at least). With culture being an almost persistent state of reversal and borrowing, the idea of postdigital looks at yet another reversal as we retreat to analog or ‘more human’ foundations or once again. This is heavily and most overtly represented through say hand-lettering/typography or the film-making of Michel Gondry’s paper sequences or use of legacy techniques for special effects etc. In the times before the computer and desktop publishing arrived, paste-up acted as a refined process for layout and composition – the ‘hand-made’ was no longer obvious, but still present. When desktop publishing and early 3d rendering arrived, a generation of new visual forms emerged – a digital age began to create and define numerous digital memes.

So, in contrast to the many things that fight back against the computer-driven, I wanted to recreate this language in analog forms but make it transparent – I wanted it to look digital, and to be honest, these sketches are indeed very much so. Alas, it is something I am working towards. In essence, I wanted to aim for the balance between oscillating extremes: not purely digital nor purely analog but both.

I have been confronted a fair bit by my professor regarding my reasoning and purposes for this project. I am looking at this project as my last piece as a student, and I want to enjoy myself, I think that pretty much sums it up. It is an experiment, and it is an aesthetic one. I think the important thing is to take it for what it is: pretty, fun, pretty fun. (I think I just found the title for it…)

I hope that clarifies some things, in writing it helped me understand it myself a little more.

Yes, the iPhone, that is embarrassing, but I was listening to music while cutting out those little squares and didn’t think to remove it when snapping the occasional process photo. What can I say, I am a nerd all the same.

et ceux qui critiquent, ils ont des trucs à montrer?
Pour moi il y des choses qui sont agréables à regarder et c’est tout.
Les explications souvent me saoulent!!!!

hey alan!
well, i’m very impressed by the first picture, think it really has an univers, because we (born in the 80’s) are so attached to all those new technologies that was blooming up. And yes it is in the same wave as Michel Gondry ( btw did you see be kind rewind ?) but the last picture is more like a constructivist painting.
good luck for your assignement, hugs ;)

Hello! Thanks for your comments another john. Happypets are an incredibly talented group but their work with digital icons was digital in digital files. In a similar vein, Apple’s, now removed, icon garden was at the onset of this digital revolution; many things have changed in the past twenty years in terms of context. Finally, these are sketches/process.

Do you have a website/email? I’d love to talk about this some more.

Thanks again,
Alan

Sent from my iPhone.

I know right… You totally can’t be a designer unless you have an iPhone and work on a Mac. (Spare me 9_9)