Pleasant Places — Excerpts
2015 · 2m · UK
Directed by Quayola
Genres: essay film, experimental
Tones: contemplative, surreal
Excerpts from a 28-minute 4K installation that transforms Provençal landscapes — shot in the territory where Van Gogh worked — through custom image-analysis algorithms that dissolve detailed foliage into abstract two-dimensional computational paintings.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Quayola situates his computational process squarely within an art-historical argument — the Van Gogh Year commission is not incidental but structural — which elevates this beyond mere generative aesthetics into something that can be debated on curatorial terms.
Quayola dissolving Provence-Van-Gogh-country through custom image-analysis. Conceptually sharp art-historical inquiry — and "excerpts" means I'm rating a fragment.
Quayola uses custom image-analysis algorithms to dissolve Provençal foliage — the same Van Gogh territory — into abstract computational paintings. The technology itself becomes art-historical inquiry. These are 4K installation excerpts, but the conceit is real.
Festivals
- GLOW Festival 2015