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In this gloomy economic climate what could be better than the offer of a free, limited-edition Nick Knight print? Our exclusive Insensate image download has been available to the public for just over 12 hours and the SHOWstudio team obviously couldn't resist having one of their own. Having printed and pieced together the 24 pages of Nick Knight's beautiful print, here's our version mounted on the studio wall.

If you haven't had chance to access the download, be sure to get in there quick: each edition is individually numbered and only available until Midnight GMT on 7th December. Well, what are you waiting for?!

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  • SAKIS
    07:47 2 Dec 2008
    is it on glossy or matte?
    heh
  • cookiee
    22:31 2 Dec 2008
    I sliced my finger open with a blade while cutting the borders off the pages. BUT, i still pulled through after i had it all bandaged up from a quick visit to the doctors...
    Its now up on my wall, looking great!
  • gaby.cepeda
    23:10 3 Dec 2008
    this is the best piece of website interaction ever!
  • nanogod
    09:52 6 Dec 2008
    i am sorry to bother you, but i can't refrain from protesting. gareth pugh, nick knight et al, are definitely artists to be admired for their amazing and beautiful work.
    however this particular video looks so much like the work i have exhibiting for years, and has so far been collected by none other than mr. dakis joannou himself - of nyc nu museum fame etc, that i am beyond angry.
    i don't really know how to fight this feeling of injustice, and i will not discuss the issue of kaleidoskopic and/or fractal imagery, since this parameter is used throughout the video, including the model pictures, which i really don't care to comment since it's outside my "interest".
    however, the evolving 3dimensional symmetrical fractals are a quantum concidence if not a direct plagiarism of my work. if in any doubt, please visit www.nanogod.net, or order the dvd i co-authored, with terry lee brown jr. the german techno artist on kompakt records.
    please be advised, i am not some kind of litigious freak demanding or extorting anything other but rightful credit. i am ready to believe you if you insist on the often coincidental nature of artistic inspiration, but this seems to me a clear cut case. someone's been stealing somebody else's homework. not cool at all.
    thanks for your time
  • nanogod
    09:57 6 Dec 2008
    ps. the video was on sale throughout europe, us and japan since summer 07. i mean, hello.
  • ChrisSummerfield
    09:57 6 Dec 2008
    It looks great, I love the strong monochromatic image.Thanks for bringing it to us. Free.?
  • GalileosUniverse
    11:26 7 Dec 2008
    CREDIT PIC>nanogod : Ref:http://www.nanogod.net/undernight1.html
    After having read your 'grievance' on this project ... and after having visited your website .... I somehow became even more curious to understand your thoughts on the matter, therefore please allow me to ask the following: .... Are you referring to the use of the technology or are you referring to the way the imagery is used in order to get that fantastic effect ?
  • nickknight
    19:10 7 Dec 2008
    Dear Nanogod,
    the feeling that one is being plagiarized is with no doubt a very unpleasant one. Trying to look at it as a compliment or indeed " the sincerest form of flattery" is often the best reaction but somewhat unsatisfactory emotionally.
    I have often comforted myself in the realization that it is better to see that ones work influences other visual artists as that implies the work is relevant and important.
    However, in this instance I must strongly deny any plagiarism or copying of any sort when it comes to your own work and the Insensate project, I was completely unaware of your work until you posted on this forum.
    I am personally very happy, and furthermore I think it is useful, to acknowledge references, so if you look back to the project blog of Insensate you will see that in fact my reference was the illustrator Aubrey Beardsley (www.showstudio.com/blog/28532) and this was made very clear right at the very beginng of the project. I was interested in his use of repeated forms of nature and the density of his work. Coincidentally V magazine have just published in the latest copy both the original Beardsley illustration next to the Insensate image expressly to acknowledge this reference.
    The video was an extension of the same visual approach. We were not as you suggested using 'evolving fractals' but actual film of leaves blowing in the wind or water ripples on a pond that we filmed in the woods near my house. With this footage an enormous amount of work then went into creating the individual masks for this film. What you are seeing is actually film of nature and is not generated on the computer.
    The use of repeated symmetry is very often found in art from the recent Calvin Klein perfume ads to the invitation I received this morning to a show at the Victoria and Albert Museum on Baroque Art. From the Rorschach Test to the Islamic Institue in Paris it is clearly a fascination for all of us. I very much hope this reassures you that I had no knowledge of your work and that in this case quite independently similar desires have lead us to similar places.
    I wish you continued success in your work .
    Nick
  • manilaanimal
    00:02 8 Dec 2008
    hello? mr. nanogod, please clam down and take a deep breathe. i'm pretty sure you are not the only person (artist or non artist) who is utilizing the visual effect you're talking about because i, together with my colleagues, have used them to make video graphics for raves back in the late nineties. i hate to break it to you but in this time and age it is quite silly to claim to own ideas. and in the first place, these techniques are really very basic that even kids play with them in their computers. so, please don't get too excited about this particular project of mr. knight and mr pugh because there is such a thing called parallelism of ideas. i think you are better off pushing it to the next level by doing something way better. or better yet, start a new project using a totally different technique. in any case goodluck to your art.
  • joanneK
    00:52 8 Dec 2008
    Plus he has actually bothered to write you a long, polite message explaining his position and your response is really quite rude and not warranted.
    Your work is interesting but there comes a point when every artist-regardless of which genre they inhabit- realises that most things have been done before, 'art comes from art' and that to truly create something 100% original without reference is nigh on impossible. But that doesn't (and shouldn't) stop people from trying and perhaps this is the point.
  • GalileosUniverse
    06:47 8 Dec 2008
    PIC:De Buddhabrot is a special version of the Mandelbrot collection, which after a rotation of 90 degrees shows a certain similarity with Buhhda
    The BEAUTY of OUR UNIVERSE ........ FASCINATING and INSPIRING .... indeed !
    Benoît B. Mandelbrot[1] (born 20 November 1924) is a French mathematician, best known as the father of fractal geometry. He is Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Emeritus at Yale University; IBM Fellow Emeritus at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center; and Battelle Fellow at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. He was born in Poland, but his family moved to France when he was a child; he is a dual French and American citizen and was educated in France. Mandelbrot now lives and works in the United States.
    _____________________________________________
    Mandelbrot also put his ideas to work in cosmology. He offered in 1974 a new explanation of Olbers' Paradox (the "dark night sky" riddle), demonstrating the consequences of fractal theory as a sufficient, but not necessary, resolution of the paradox. He postulated that if the stars in the universe were fractally distributed (for example, like Cantor dust), it would not be necessary to rely on the Big Bang theory to explain the paradox. His model would not rule out a Big Bang, but would allow for a dark sky even if the Big Bang had not occurred.
    In 1975, Mandelbrot coined the term fractal to describe these structures, and published his ideas in Les objets fractals, forme, hasard et dimension (1975; an English translation Fractals: Form, Chance and Dimension was published in 1977).[5]
  • GalileosUniverse
    07:28 8 Dec 2008
    TO INSPIRE and TO BE INSPIRED !
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  • GalileosUniverse
    08:52 8 Dec 2008
    ..... and last but not least ... without having had any previous knowledge of the reference to AUBREY BEARDSLEY , the above image was the very first one that came into my mind as a reference point about this exquisitely beautiful and crystal clear project ! ... then allow me to say :
    REALLY WELL ACHIEVED !!
  • someonegreat
    12:42 9 Dec 2008
    "Only those with no memory insist on their originality."
  • noerml
    11:27 17 Dec 2008
    Hey guys.
    I was wondering if anyone can help me here. I downloaded the pdf and decompiled it for a large printout (without the anoying tapes)...however, however I am actually interested in some of the other Pictures.
    Do you guys know a way to either extract a high-resolution picture from the flash-file on the website, or where to get it. I wouldn't mind paying for it either. I just couldn't find anything on the web *sigh*