Pae White: Dying Oak January 11, 2011

Los Angeles-based artist Pae White, leads the viewer on a dizzying, hypnotic journey through, around and inside an 800-year-old oak tree in 'Dying Oak' (2009), a digital animation. Using sophisticated 3-D scanning technology, White collects visual data from the interior and exterior surfaces of the tree. The artist then translates this data into rapidly moving clusters of glowing dots that shift back and forth between representation and abstraction.