Eric Souther

Buffer POP/SOP WIP for use in @touchdesigner

Working on creating 3d Buffer & Slitscan SOPs and POPs for use in @touchdesigner The 3D Buffer allows you to define how many copies and the offset of time. You can also offset the copies in X,Y, & Z. 3D Slitscan can run vertical, horizontal, z-space, and radial. It's running smoothly, but can also look quite glitchy :) Animation from Adobe Mixamo.

Excited to screen at the Open AIR Media Festival, Friday May 29 @ Film Scene in the Park, 404 E College St, Iowa City, IA >>>8:30pm<<< Participating artists: Israel Lucius Barnes, Karl Erickson, Laura Iancu, Sarah Lasley, Dwayne LeBlanc, Lex Leto, Song Lu, Maggie Murphy, Emily Sasmor, clay scofield, Eric Souther, Jenelle Stafford, Courtney Taniguchi, Roy Taylor, Michelle Trujillo, Masha Vlasova Event generously supported by the City of Iowa City Public Art Program. @ICfilmscene #openairmediafestival #iowacityarts On view is No Time for Deep Time a collab with @andrew_deutsch_magic_if

Databending TOP for use in @touchdesigner FREE link in bio >>Philosophical Tools👀 Databending is the practice of treating images as raw byte streams and corrupting those bytes on purpose opening a JPEG in a text editor, replacing some characters, saving it, and watching the decoder render the damage as color shifts, streaks, and broken regions. This is often an offline process: corrupt a file, save it, open it, repeat. Databending TOP is a TouchDesigner Custom Operator that does it live → corrupt → decode round-trip running every frame. No file-saving, no Python rendering, no waiting. It's a CPU-only plugin that runs in real time on Macs & PCs (download installers for each). Built on TD 2025.32460 | Runs on Windows 11, MacOS 11 Big Sur or later. Glitch technique catalog inspired by venam/glitching_images. JPEG encoding/decoding by libjpeg-turbo (BSD-3-Clause + IJG license).

Experimenting with building a glitch SOP & POP for use in @touchdesigner Inspired by @srcxor

Last few days to see Flicker & Roll at the Resonant Gallery! Curated by @ericsouther & @micah_alhadeff on view until April 2nd. This exhibition showcases a multi-generational approach to exploring analog video as a creative medium, tracing its origins to the late 1960s and early 1970s to present. Artists approaching this then-new technology quickly discovered the limits of its possibilities and issues of access outside commercial television studios.This led to the development of artist-built tools that laid the groundwork for today's open-source ethos, a radical hacking of the black box that opened new ways of seeing and sparked a continual fascination with dismantling and reimagining technological systems, using error itself as a creative medium. While analog has been widely replaced by digital technologies, a dedicated community of working artists continues to choose this medium, cultivating an almost cult-like following. The language of analog continues to evolve as artists intertwine new processes, 3D animation and creative coding, into their workflows, challenging notions of technological obsolescence. Their work demonstrates that new ground can still be found in something "old," creating new hybrid forms by mixing contemporary technologies with analog processes. LoVid @lovidlovid Dan Sandin James Connolly @jxconno Monica Panzarino @monypnyc Dave Jones @davejonesvideo Monica Duncan @marblemonmon Matthew Schlanger @matthewschlanger Paloma Kop @palomakop Sky Goodman @sci_fi_mascara ex_mortal @ex_mortal_ Somfay @somfay jotta.rs @jotta.rs Bosque Gracias @bosquegracias Sarah Turner @sarahsarahturnerturner2 Jen Kutler @jenkutler Kit Young @videoactive_avocado

Excerpts from Devotional Signals~ Live Cinema Performance for Off the Screen selection in the 64th @aafilmfest , The World's oldest experimental and avant-garde film festival, March 27, 2026. See bio for a link to full documentation. Special thanks to Ione Calvin @ownseyart for helping to document, along with the Michigan Theater Tech crew you all are amazing! Performance created with @touchdesigner + @ableton Devotional Signals ~ is an audio-visual alchemic process that explores the materiality of the signal as it shifts through historical forms into contemporary graphics. The leap motion was used to create a twelve complex oscillator spatial mixer with x & z, y generates an envelope (one per hand), invisible planes left and right of the performer trigger drums that can be grabbed mid air morphing the audio-visual material.

Experiments with creating a 16 grey level sequencer that can trigger different feedback processes for each step. Slide 3 gives you a preview of the UI for sequencer. Releasing for Philosophical Tools in April. Sound from a Jam with @person.jer.artist | @touchdesigner

Michigan artists should make it out to Break It Down Make it Better in Grand Rapids this Fri-Sat! I'll be giving a talk on Leveraging Artist Documentation Fri, Session 3, at 3PM. Break It Down | Make It Better is West Michigan’s longest-running professional development conference for artists, creatives, and arts administrators. Each year, creatives come together to build skills, form connections, and find inspiration in one another’s journeys. This year’s theme, The Action of Art, explores how artists turn ideas into action through practice, collaboration, experimentation, and community-building. With over 30 speakers, this 2-day event will inspire attendees through panels, workshops, and round table discussions. Lunch is provided both days with a complimentary happy hour at AllArtWorks on Saturday. Hosted by @artprize , @avenueforthearts & @all.art.works

Experimenting with 120fps line drum with oscillographic running in front of. Inspired by the @kalamazoomuseum exhibit.

I will be performing Devotional Siganls~ for the @aafilmfest off the screen, opening for the Films in Competition 7 Program, Friday March 27th at 7:30PM

Experimenting with 2-16 grey level key sequencer that has a variable buffer per-channel.