Oculart

pigalle 1913 from Oculart

http://www.oculart.com/

Oculart is a very atmospheric piece that seems to look at the relationship between nature and technology. The imagery is very obscure, with warped, often deformed take on objects and humans. The piece is complemented by a very encroaching soundtrack that tends to suggest a grotesque and unpleasant theme to most of the pieces, although the images themselves don’t always suggest this. Each image has some form of repeating animation to it, although there is no interactivity here (save for the clicking of links to cycle through each image).

I chose this piece because of the themes of nature and technology. With the current real-world situation of global warming, art with subject matter dealing with nature and technology are very much at the forefront of our subconscious. This piece also takes a less bleak look on things as compared to some of the other works presented here and it provides an interesting contrast.

monocle pulpit from Oculart

The imagery itself is quite varied; from a dark sepia toned Paris complete with a broken and bent Eiffel tower, to a deformed horse with a blinking human eye. It is often not all that clear what the imagery is suggesting, but the constant moody soundtrack gives each piece an underlying, if not quite understood sense of creepiness.