Tina Frank

Chronomops

Tina Frank

The doors of perception, electronic style. Tina Frank’s Chronomops opens doors to truly different dimensions: different than digital art’s reductionist studies so common today, different than the serially laid out minimalist images, and different than the omnipresent filtering and layering experiments. Chronomops opens up a shimmering, colorful space that is simultaneously an excess of color, frenzy of perception, and pop carousel. An abstract architecture of vertical color bars is set in endless rotation, whereby the modules and building blocks fly around themselves—and the entire system likewise rotates. The forced movement forms a digital maelstrom whose suction pulls the observer deep into it.

Colterrain

Tina Frank

Colterrain by Tina Frank plays with the Synchronator device, which translates sound into RGB video frequencies to create a work of true visual music in which the image is literally the sound turned into colour and filmed live using analogue equipment.

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Tina Frank

The digital data of individual sounds created by electronic musician Pita was translated directly into geometric graphic elements. Black-and-white grids were positioned behind a round mask, which jerkily changes in shape from a circle to an oval.

Frozen Jumper

Tina Frank

"Frozen Jumper" begins in hit-and-run style with a pulsating textural noise. Flickering, nearly rectangular patterns join on the image plane, at first in black-and-white, bringing to mind the sprocket holes in celluloid film and, not least due to the lack of geometric precision, giving the impression of a pre-digital origin. As the soundtrack rattles on in a minimalistic way, the pattern’s twitchy dance is submerged in various warm hues such as yellow, pink, light green and light blue, which in a different rhythm and to a more agreeable music could be perceived as the signature of slightly retro psychedelia.

Stardust Manifesto

Tina Frank