{"id":172,"date":"2009-08-31T12:54:09","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T19:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/artwork\/charles-csuri-fragmentation-animations-1968-1970-hummingbird-1968\/"},"modified":"2019-12-30T14:58:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T22:58:23","slug":"charles-csuri-fragmentation-animations-1968-1970-hummingbird-1968-2","status":"publish","type":"artwork","link":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/artwork\/charles-csuri-fragmentation-animations-1968-1970-hummingbird-1968-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Csuri, Fragmentation Animations, 1968 &#8211; 1970: Hummingbird (1968)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-172-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/youtube\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=awvQp1TdBqc&#038;_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=awvQp1TdBqc\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=awvQp1TdBqc<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><span>In 1967, Csuri began creating animations. Again, the artist used his<br \/>\ndrawings as the foundation for his creative exploration with the computer. With<br \/>\nArtist into Frog, Aging Process, and Hummingbird, Csuri expanded his notion of<br \/>\nobject transformation to include the morphing of human faces and animals. Today,<br \/>\nmorphing is characterized by a seamless transition between forms. Csuris early<br \/>\nfragmentation animations foreshadowed morphing technology.[1]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Csuri and Schaffer created key still-frames of a hummingbird in flight. They then used a computer to create transitional frames that resulted in a seamless animation between those key frames.&#8221; [2]<\/p>\n<p>[1]: https:\/\/csuriproject.osu.edu\/index.cf&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>[2]:  Edward A. Shanken, <em>Art and Electronic Media<\/em>, p.<em>80<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"template":"","artist":[202],"streams":[5],"keywords":[2322,2096,2671,2670,2669],"decade":[5540],"media":[5548,5546],"class_list":["post-172","artwork","type-artwork","status-publish","hentry","artist-charles-csuri","streams-coded-form-and-electronic-production","keywords-animation","keywords-computer","keywords-computer-film","keywords-frames","keywords-hummingbird","decade-1960s","media-text","media-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artwork"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"streams","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/streams?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keywords?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/decade?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"media","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}