A feedback driven experimental digital animation by Andrew Benson.

In Martian Time Slip, "gubble" is a wormlike entropic construct that overtakes the perception of Manfred Steiner and, in turn, the protagonist Jack Bohlen. Gubble can also be seen as a metaphor for post-boom decay, neglect, and a slippage of collective reality. In this work, I'm exploring a constantly evolving and unstable feedback network as forms develop and destroy themselves. Both the audio and video here are created through chaotic and generative processes, culminating in an audiovisual abstraction that both invites and defies comparison to a familiar cohesive reality. The gubble is everywhere, taking over the visual field. Is everything falling apart or is it growing into something?

Andrew Benson's "Deserted" is at once a digital video meditation on the idea of the desert, and an autobiographical evocation of growing up near the Mojave Desert in California. A recent move back to its edges sees Benson re-imagining the arid climate's texture of feldspar, sand, creosote and deep skies with layers of no-input feedback, digital paint, misbehaving color effects and camera-driven image distortion. Shot in one long take using custom real-time video software, "Deserted" places a geological history within a context both synthesized and electronic to its core.