Viacheslav Romanov creative portfolio
About me
I am a multimedia artist, studying at the University of Arts Bremen, Germany (Digital Media M.A.), with a legal, human rights and project management background.
I am interested in how new media affect social environment.
I embody my interest in the wide diversity of projects - creating digital media art, video performances, installations, applied design and organizing events, making sound experiments and field recordings, designing online media
for human rights sector, data analysis and visualization for journalistic materials.
I believe that new interactive and immersive data-driven media are an important component of communication strategies for two-way interaction with the audience.
Name
Metal Dreams
Year
2021
Format
stop-motion
Category
Generative graphics, performances, interactive installations
Motto
Curious eyes gaze into sparks in the night sky. It is filled with movement that carries messages.
Idea
Is this flow of information trying to mimic reality? Or is this all our interpretation? Let’s focus on something simple. And metal.
The author set out to explore the possibilities and principles of analog frame-by-frame animation, supplemented by real-time digital image processing.
The result is a short animated film about a universe in which nails, an allusion to the digital environment trying to mimic real-world objects.
Links
- video presentation
- [video from the exhibition] (https://youtu.be/B8gVVMtiYNc)
- exhibition page
Authors
- Viacheslav Romanov (stop-motion video, processing)
- Lasse Bomträger (sound)
Instruments
- Derivative TouchDesigner
- Panasonic GH4
- Blackmagic ATEM Mini
- Vegas
Content
To implement the project, the author built a specialized hardware-software complex for recording and processing frame-by-frame animation. The main material used in the animation is metal nails of various sizes.
Class “Trick der Sterne” by prof. Kati Barath, Ulike Isenberg (WiSe20-21)
Presentation
The work was screened at the TrickFilm Abendfestival, Galerie des Westens, Bremen, Germany, 09.10.2021
Main process description
Physical image capture kit and Touch Designer module
Actual images from the animation**
Name
Non-Safety
Year
2021
Format
stop-motion
Category
Generative graphics, performances, interactive installations
Motto
Violence at the door slices the world around us with its iron teeth. Do we close our eyes enough to deal with it?
Idea
The author continues to develop interactivity tools for developing step-by-step animations. The result was a short film about the learned helplessness of citizens in the face of repressions, embodied in the image of the teeth of a metal saw.
The work draws attention to the problems of Russian civil society and the state’s attempt to liquidate the International Memorial, organization protecting the memory of victims of political repression.
Links
Authors
- Viacheslav Romanov (concept, saws layer, montage, sound)
- Anastasia Guzenkova (concept, black layer)
Instruments
- Derivative TouchDesigner
- Panasonic GH4
- Blackmagic ATEM Mini
- Vegas
Content
Rough and minimalist animated sketches, inspired by the work of William Kentridge, use the textures and shapes of real metal hacksaw blades as a backing. The looping, morphing, unrefined design, framerate shifting video tracks and soundtrack based on the same metal saw blades, create a sense of growing menace.
The project continues to explore the capabilities of idiosyncratic hardware-software system for creating non-standard step-by-step animation.
Class “Trickfilmkurs” by prof. Kati Barath, Ulike Isenberg (SoSe21)
Presentation
The work was screened at the TrickFilm Abendfestival, Galerie des Westens, Bremen, Germany, 09.10.2021
Main process description
Preliminary materials and updated workspace
Actual images from the animation
