Artist Joe Hamilton's video work uses an intricate collage effect and layering technique to form digital landscapes that play around with perspective and illusion. The Melbourne-based Hamilton uses found objects and footage, both physical and virtual, in his work. His latest video, Regular Division, continues his exploration of these neo-surreal hinterlands.Set to a seemingly oppositional mechanical soundtrack, the video shows a parade of imagery wherein surfaces overlap to such a degree that your brain hurts trying to figure it all out. The video centers around a glass house filled with plants, but whose panels become windows into other worlds. The result offers us glimpses of ruins lying overgrown in a jungle, along with countless other curiosities. The constantly changing perspective and streaks of paintlike color that seem to float in midair remove any chance of spatial orientation. Pattern, texture, color all merge together into a composition of repetition, complexity, and reflex.
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"The landscapes we experience have changed in the digital era," Hamilton has said, "but I don’t think our concept of landscape has changed significantly. That is what I explore in my work. The space between our shared sense of history and our experience of the world today."Below, check out some of our favorite moments from Regular Division.
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