SMARTS Gallery helps talented
international artists and designers advance their creative
careers. Aside from presenting their artwork, we help them
understand their work in the context of the art market, and
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The Organ is a new physical application for performing video in real time. The user is playing a midi keyboard to control and explore the video image loops that are projected on the screen on top of the keyboard. With each keystroke, a corresponding visual element is displayed on top of the last one that was played as a new layer. Just as in sound each note is being added to the complete harmony, in the video organ each visual element is being added to the previous ones, creating a new composition in which the elements are blending into each other. The users are not constructing their visual experience in a traditional time line, rather, they do so in a more “musical,” harmonic way. The vibrating “ghost” of the previous visual elements is still there decaying slowly long after the key was stroke.
