Create Digital Motion Interviews Deborah Johnson

Deborah Johnson has been working with Sufjan for the past year or two creating the videos and animations that are projected on the screen during his concerts. Create Digital Motion has recently posted an in-depth interview with Deborah about her work with Sufjan as well as visual creativity and performance in general.

Well my favorite parts are the ones where video and animation are mixed. Like ’snowbird’ the flying bird is actually a video of a bird, it’s just been cut out. So I can just take something in footage, make it all, and drop it into the algorithm…

The little boy for ‘predatory wasp’ is Sufjan’s nephew, so it’s fun to have his hyper-personal, home movies and bring this in to computer programming and, you know, layers. Those are the moments where I feel the most relieved. I get a little nervous about the ones, like with the lines drawing on the screen. I feel that for the song it’s fine and it’s appropriate, but it feels very predictable to me.

View Deborah’s work at Vimeo as well as on the Encyclopedia Asthmatica DVD.

UFO, Black Hawk War from CandyStations on Vimeo.

Majesty Snowbird, Live Visual from CandyStations on Vimeo

June 10th, 2008 admin

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