video art

SPHERE ART

This is a series of abstract images that I've created by taking pictures of a glass sphere placed onto the laptop screen as I was viewing photos I have taken or digital art I've created. The grainy texture of the images is wanted in order to create a sort of fuzzy effect in the eye of the viewer. I consider this sort of work as a tool for entering in an open eyes meditation. To order prints visit my shop on www.dhyano.com shop.

Sink art

t’s an eco-statement that uses the psychedelia of the 70’s to deliver environmentalist messages through the ephemeral abstractness of shapes and colours taking place at random in the kitchen sink. Here again concept meets visual art: the amount of chemicals we see going down the plug in this video is the average used by a household in a month.

Transensory Vision – anatomy of a slide show

Here photography meets video art celebrating the process of perception. The focus of this video is on its technical process as a concept in itself. The intention is to point out to the viewers that their own visual experience is more important then the object shown. What’s happening here it’s a long one way journey ‘object to brain’. It’s the journey of light defining the object, going through the lens of a photo-camera and impressing a film of a slide. A beam of light is then forced through the slide, goes through a lens and appears projected onto a screen. The image screened, being filmed, goes through another lens (directly or sometimes reflected by a convex mirror), is recorded onto the magnetic tape of a cam-coder, transferred into the memory of a computer, edited, burned onto a DVD, read by a laser, processed by a software and finally appears onto the screen of the computer or TV. It’s now ready to be absorbed by the viewer’s eyes, sent to the brain through the optic nerve and finally recognised (or not) as a known image. The content of the video is designed to trigger multisensory suggestions attempting to create the corrispondence between senses described by the title.

Abstract Tar

This is not art, it’s Dhyano’s brother’s extremely hard job: the insulation of terraces with a tar-based coat. The statement, as the photography, is provoking evidence that ready-made abstract objects are everywhere so what is the point in creating them?
The cutting and melted rectangular piece has not being created as art, it’s an honest functional patch to seal an accidental cut in the coat. It may however be conceived as a strong reference to the highly influential art of Burri and Fontana. The soundtrack it’s an installation called ‘Tar and feather’ and can be used independently from the images. Flutes played by Dhyano.

ChocolaRte

A sight/taste formula to stimulate both senses and to demonstrate that abstractism is really everywhere.
"At the end of a meal, just finished my profiterolles, she's gone to re-touch her make up... well, that took quite a while.

IL PIANTO DELLA SCAVATRICE
The Lament Of the Excavator
by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Translated by Ferlinghetti/Valente

8:14 Italian with English text

This video-poem pays tribute to the fluidity of bilingualism and the beauty of multilingualism in honor of the late Ferlinghetti. The footage captures my studio recording of the poem in Italian, with the added layer of the English translation overlaid onto footage of post-World War II Rome.

The text seamlessly fades in and out, accompanied by a haunting original improvised music by myself. The video is an attempt to evoke the emotions of the city's struggle to recover, so beautifully described by the poetry of Pasolini and highlights key phrases in Italian both with titles and echoes. This video-poem is a fitting tribute to the legacy of Ferlinghetti and the fluidity of language."

I am introducing today a new series of video readings
with sound art from the City Lights pocket poets series n.41.
I am particularly fond of this publication (I urge you
to buy it here) in this particular moment because it's
a tribute to Ferlinghetti who left his body few weeks ago.

This piece is entirely produced by myself including, filming
editing sound/music and titles.

LIBERASSANGE - SET ASSANGE FREE

Everybody is in jail until Assange is in jail! This poem has been written, filmed and edited as response to the DiEM Voice call for artists 'Raise Your Voice for Assange.

The symbolic location of the Dynamite Factory in Lelant, Penwith Cornwall, has been chosen for its powerful eerie way to be a non-building, a place inside and outside at the same time.

The choice of the Italian language came natural for the interesting sound of the language in the portmanteau word liberassange. This poem is a tribute to all journalists that are now in jail only because they have decided to speak the truth.

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3:10 Italian with English animated titles -Cornwall March 2021

SPHERE ART​