<aside> 🫂 Nita Bowerman joined forces with Chimerik 似不像 in 2016. We were very impressed by her unconventional ways of approaching video creation and performances, as someone who had no training background in film, video, or arts technology. From our experience, Nita always finds imaginative and inventive ways to engage with technology in new ways.
Bending rules, finding glitches, multiple layers of creative pipelines, and unconventional processes are what we’re aiming to highlight on this page. We want to empower this element of creative spirit, as technology is here to serve, empower, and inspire our creative process as opposed to us being restricted or dictated by the framework of the technology.
We are very excited to be able to share Nita’s creative process and her DIY technology methods here. Feel free to try out the apps and the methods that she’s generously shared, you may be surprised how powerful result and how simple the process can be!
Follow Nita’s Instagram for more of her inspiring experimental DIY new media art creation!
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Here, Nita Bowerman shares her creative practice using various iOS and web-based apps to create digital art. These apps offer a diverse set of tools that can turn a quick capture into a visual adventure. With the aid of technology, Nita transforms snapshots of ideas into moving digital artworks, exploring different styles and techniques. Whether you're a professional artist or a hobbyist, these apps can open up a world of creativity.
I am a multidisciplinary performance-based artist, mixing the mediums of dance, acting, media art and costume design. My self-created real time performances are often hybrid works mixing live action with digital content. Creation and collaboration credits include performing in live and live digital spaces (including virtual reality), generating visual content for short art videos and live plays, and making wearable art works and costumes. I have worked with various local theatre companies in a variety of capacities and have performed and screened DIY digital video works locally and internationally.
Art is the medium through which I process existing. I consider myself to be an experimenter of form and a designer of content, creating works for stage and screen. I studied theatre at SFU School for the Contemporary Arts.
the early days…
artists lost in-the-flesh art making contracts but were still itching to make art, Zoom became a platform to make and share live digital art.
Zoom had some user friendly tools to jumpstart live digital experimentation.
Using a photo or video background, a user could change their settings to green screen and play with lighting to affect how the body engaged with the background image.
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LumaFusion, by Luma Touch LLC
A remarkably functional iOS video editing app which allows for multiple video and audio layers with various video blend modes, video/audioeffects, key frame and keying options.
Efekt, by PicsArt
App allows you to create unique videos and photos with movement and sound reacting effects. Effects can be added in real-time while filmingor in post production.