Andrew Benson aka Pixlpa is a San Francisco-based digital artist whose work explores the more outlandish (in colour terms, at least) end of generative visuals. He’s very recently uploaded some videos (above and directly below) of real-time augmented facial experiments using a motion tracker and the result, as the title of the video above suggests, creates sparkling, splintered digital forms, where movements trail patterns of fractured virtual textures, making for a mesmerizing and disturbing display.

It’s a technique you could see being used to great effect for some live visuals or in some kind of interactive installation, and as he states on his Vimeo page, there’s so much more to be explored with this method, and we look forward to seeing what other kinds of mind-warping results he and others may come up with.

Equally impressive and mind-warping is his experimental video work, striking and full of fun, the blithe visuals will have you staring at them in eye-straining wonder. Like his piece below called You Have A Radical Face which features kaleidoscopic landscapes in a distorting digital froth. You could imagine yourself watching this on a huge IMAX screen and becoming fully immersed in a vast sea of fluctuating forms.

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Check out his Vimeo page for more experimental visual fun.