Joshua Albers selected works

Experiment 05 - Map

Continuing my exploration of the effects of compressing motion through time and space, this animation is comprised of a series of GPS recordings taken in the area around St. Louis, Missouri in late 2009. I used Processing to display the tracks as a series of lines; colored rays indicating the heading of each segment have been added to illuminate patterns in my motion through the area.

Animation by Joshua Albers.
No audio.

GPS data recorded with Google My Tracks (http://mytracks.appspot.com) running on a T-Mobile G1.
Animation coded in Processing.
Assembled and edited in Adobe After Effects.

Experiment 03 - Image Curves

Generating curving lines in 3D space based on a sequence of images. The original motion recorded in the images is transmuted into dissected, specific motion delineated by the curves.

Code and images by Joshua Albers.
No audio.
Coded with Processing.
Assembled and edited in Adobe AfterEffects.

Experiment 02 - Image Combine

An experiment to test the effect of extreme time compression on the image coherence. Each of the images above is comprised of tens, or in some cases hundreds, of individual digital photographs. The details of individual images are lost in the chaos of simultaneity. Only breathing, almost painterly records of light and dark remain.
Code and images by Joshua Albers.
Coded with Processing.

Experiment 01 - Image Spiral

Visualizing the temporal data imprinted on a sequence of photographs.
Code and images by Joshua Albers.
No audio.
Coded with Processing.
Assembled and edited in Adobe AfterEffects.

Field of View

View the interactive Flash application Field of View.

Footage of an interactive Flash project that explores the nature of focus and peripheral vision. The default mode exaggerates the variation in receptor density across the surface of a human retina; high density near the center allows us to resolve sharp details, while the drop in receptor density towards the edges of the retina yields only hazy shapes. The alternate mode inverts the relationship, blurring the details near the center of focus and permitting maximum details only at the edges.

All images and ActionScript by Joshua Albers.
Programmed in Adobe Flash CS3.
Footage captured in CamStudio and packaged in Adobe AfterEffects.
no audio.

Thread (excerpts)

Animation by Joshua Albers
Audio by Eric Bintner

Originally presented as an installation for the Spring 2004 BFA Senior Exhibition at (Southwest) Missouri State University.

Animation in NewTek LightWave and Adobe AfterEffects

Listen

Hand-drawn animation produced in 2003 during my BFA at (Southwest) Missouri State University.

Animation and audio by Joshua Albers.

Animation in NewTek Aura DV.
Audio in Adobe AfterEffects.

Out of the Box

Character animation produced in 2003 during my BFA at (Southwest) Missouri State University.

Modelling and Animation by Joshua Albers.
Audio by Dustin Murtaugh.

Modelling and animation in NewTek LightWave.
Texturing in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe After Effects.
Editing in Adobe After Effects.