Flight Paths

source: risdedu

Dennis Hlynsky is a US-based artist and designer. With an insatiable desire to consider technology and its place in the arts, he came early to video and has more than 30 years of experience in the medium. He was among the first students in the RISD video program and is now a devoted teacher. Since 1983 he has committed himself to the study of digital processes. A skilled 3D artist, his most recent work was cited by the Black Maria Film Festival.

Hlynsky was a co-founder of Electron Movers, a regional media center and performance space, and a principal in the Video Analysis Project for ten years, using video as an intervention for people with life-threatening problems. The project garnered the attention of international media. His interest in celebration as an art form resulted in his designing the fireworks celebration for Providence for five years and has been central to several longstanding community arts events. Most recently, he and Daniel Peltz co-designed the Lepton, a true-non-linear editor for social web-based media.
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source: vimeo

Recorded north of Toronto up Rt 35 near Little Hawk Lake. This is a country with many lakes at differing altitudes. Between the lakes are waterfalls, rapids, and meandering rivers. The loggers built a log chute between Little Hawk and Big Hawk lakes. This video was shot at the dam before the chute. It serves to collect water bugs and flotsam blown onto the lake from pine trees. This video is processed to show the incredible movement of bugs and stuff supported by the surface tension of the water. The flow of water draws everything toward the fast moving log chute the bugs ride the current, pop, and relax.
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source: demilked

US-based artist and designer Dennis Hlynsky films various creatures as they fly, walk or crawl through the world, tracing their deeply complex and intricate pathways. He does this by editing the video so that each creature in the video leaves a trail behind itself showing where it has been. The artist’s most astonishing clips demonstrate the beautiful and labyrinthine flight paths of birds, unraveling the intricacy of their aerial choreography.

Hlynsky, who is also a professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, started filming birds with a small Flip video recorder in 2005 and now continues his work with a Lumix GH2. He records gigabytes of footage that are then turned into several-minute-long video clips.