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:: Friday, March 19, 2010 ::

AV Friday

Quick early video post as I have a podcast to record. I'll update when its done. In the meantime, here's a nice collection of stuff via the V-Atak audiovisual label:

TEMPORARY TEMPLE - A/V ritual
Click through to watch on the site.

Botborg presents "PSNKY Test Subject #1 : Connection to the Photosonicneurokineasthograph"


"Botborg is a practical demonstration of the theories of Dr Arkady Botborger (1923-81), founder of the 'occult' science of Photosonicneurokineasthography - translated as "writing the movement of nerves through use of sound and light". Raw electronic signals are fused and rewired to create intensely visceral experiences of sound-colour synaesthesia."

zombieflesheater visual


MoDuLe VxD "Arcade's revenge"

Labels: MP3, Video, Visuals

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Gusset VJ set for Alt.Vault back room @ the Black Swan, 23.01.10

Labels: Bristol, Flyer, Gigs, Gusset, Visuals, VJ

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On Sunday 20th Sept, Arnolfini and Bristol festival will be hosting an afternoon of free workshops, focusing on state-of-the-art tools for interactive, audio and visual media. Practicing artists will be running through some simple projects you can do and will be sharing some of their tips and tricks.

The timetable is:

11:00 - 12:30 - After Effects

13:30 - 15:00 - Max MSP

15:30 - 17:00 - Circuit Bending

The workshops are open to all on a first come first serve basis.
If you are interested, send an email to makebreakbeat@hotmail.com stating your experience and which workshops you would like to attend.
Please help us circulate this email to anyone who might be interested in this event.

Many thanks

Jamie

Labels: Art, Bending, Electronic Music, Visuals

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Did Knights Solicitors stop and think about the message they were sending with this KKK logo?

Labels: Design, graphics, Humour, Logo, Visuals

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"Cut&Paste is a social arena for the discovery, advocacy, and elevation of design.
2009 The biggest, baddest tournament yet, DDT 2009 shows up with a 16-city roster and a slate of three competitions (2D, 3D, Motion Graphics) per city. Plus new Show&Tell sessions and a globalized Audience Design Contest. And the first-ever Global Championship. The whirlwind ride never ends!"


Cut&Paste Digital Design Tournament 2007 from Cut&Paste on Vimeo.

Labels: Design, Visuals

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César A Hidalgo - Thinking outside the cube on physicsworld.com
"The discovery that many complex systems are actually well structured networks has not only changed the landscape of physics, but also how we visualize patterns in science."

See some of César's visualisations on his own website.


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Labels: Art, Maths, Physics, science, Visuals

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Dmitri Tymoczko at Princeton University, where he teaches and has developed a geometric method of representing musical chords.
"When you first hear them, a Gregorian chant, a Debussy prelude and a John Coltrane improvisation might seem to have almost nothing in common--except that they all include chord progressions and something you could plausibly call a melody. But music theorists have long known that there's something else that ties these disparate musical forms together. The composers of these and virtually every other style of Western music over the past millennium tend to draw from a tiny fraction of the set of all possible chords. And their chord progressions tend to be efficient, changing as few notes, by as little as possible, from one chord to the next."

Labels: Maths, Music, Visuals

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LIGHT UP BRISTOL - 17th / 21st December

Next week, College Green will undergo a magical transformation into five nights of Winter Wonderland. Using 6 of the world's most powerful projectors to dress up the whole of the Council House with light, this very unique "visual feast" will feature a selection of short video animations by some of Bristol's leading creative talent.

Antivj is very proud and excited to have been asked to be part of this and Crustea [Antivj / Cuisine] will be the only one to do a live performance every night, at 9.40pm.

LIGHT UP BRISTOL
College Green, Bristol city center
Monday 17th to Friday 21st December
Every night 6.30 to 10pm. Free!

More info:
www.blog.antivj.com
www.lightupbristol.co.uk

Labels: Animation, Bristol, graffiti, Visuals, VJ

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Programming language for audio, video, clever people
[via music thing]

Labels: Computing, Electronic Music, Programming, Visuals

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Vacation photos create 3D models of world landmarks

"The big breakthrough here is being able to compute very accurate 3D models from people's vacation photos," said co-author Steve Seitz, a UW associate professor of computer science and engineering. "The long-term vision is to be able to reconstruct the detailed geometry of all the structures on the surface of the Earth. Many people are working toward that goal, but by using online collections this work brings in a whole new source of imagery and level of detail."

Online photo-sharing Web sites such as Flickr and Google are popular because they offer a free, easy way to share photos. Flickr now holds more than 1 billion photos; a search for "Notre Dame Paris" finds more than 80,000 files. The study authors, experts in computer vision, believe this is the world's most diverse, and largely untapped, source of digital imagery.

[via dev.null]

Labels: 3D, Computing, Flickr, Modelling, Photography, Visuals

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Iannis Xenakis: Phillips Pavilion, Poème Electronique, Edgard Varèse [Brussels 1958]
I've read a lot about, and listened to a lot of, Xenakis’s music, so it's interesting to see something pop up about his architecture now and again. Especially when it was designed as a specific audio/visual display space.

Labels: Acoustics, architecture, Art, Visuals

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By email:
"Hello,
I'm a French visual artist living in England, and I've been doing VJing and live visuals around Europe for about 2 years, in clubs, festivals and art galleries..
I'd like to introduce you my latest technique, called "Visual Mapping". The idea is to get out of the usual 2D format, and project on volumes actual 3D objects, to play with a new dimension, and explore depth, perspective, optical illusions, and discover new links between shapes, light and visual perception..

"Here's an example of a recent installation I did in Berlin recently with visomat inc, based on this technique (transmediale festival).


High res video
More pictures and details on www.antivj.com

"We can also use this projection technique with any object, shape, sculpture or building. Example of visual mapping on a building:



"By the way, AntiVJ is a new "visual label", which aim is to explore and discover techniques around the visual art, news artists, installations and project will be revealed regularly on the website.

"We will be touring in Europe ths summer, and would be happy to meet you if you are around:
July - UK / London / Glade Festival
July - France / Paris / Batofar
August - UK / Bristol / Cuisine
Sept - Ireland / Dublin / Electric Picnic
Sept - France / Nantes / Scopitone Festival."

Labels: Art, Visuals, VJ

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Corrupt photo of Gusset, made with Corrupt™ - data corruption software by recyclism aka bnjmn gaulon.

"Corrupt™ was first built with Proce55ing. The corruption process start by reading the binary of an image file [JPG or GIF], then some bytes are swaps [the number of replacement is a random value from 1 to 20]. The file is then "saved as" a new document. Depending on the number replacement and of the original compression, the image will have a completely different and unpredictable aesthetics. So from a single image the program can generate millions of corrupted versions. And because it is a real corruption system that damages the binaries of a file, some of the results can't be showed because they are too damaged... This online version is dedicated to anyone who desire to corrupt JPG files."

Labels: Art, Photography, Processing, Visuals

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From this weeks Timeout magazine:
Peter Greenaway on cinema as a visual medium [418KB JPG]
Greenaway's live "Tulse Luper" VJ set is @ London Imax on 16.03.07
Part of the Optronica festival.

Labels: Cinema, Greenaway, Video, Visuals, VJ

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Semiconductor – Worlds in Flux (Fat Cat)



"A DVD-Video of Short Films, Art-Works, Music Videos and Live Cinema Documentation" by Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt. I have to admit to being initially sceptical about this, worried that it was just going to be a load of typical club visuals presented on a DVD.

In places it is much more than that, with films of sunspots (untreated documentary data with a choice of 10 different soundtracks) and some brilliant art pieces with dissolving images of Paris, ravaged by mysterious meteorological events. Likewise the treated footage of the Northumberland coast and Earthquake devastated buildings are gripping "fictional documentaries." Their love of architecture is also clear and buildings have been subtly treated in such a way that you wonder how much of it is actually real.

However, the live cinema pieces are exactly what I was worried about. They really don't work outside of the live performance environment. Despite it being apparent that they were impressive at the time (several of them date back to 2002) it is obvious that the technology has already moved on and what was perhaps cutting edge five years ago is now something you see all over the place. The 200 Nanowebbers video for Double Adapter is the best of the bunch here, although it's not entirely clear how live this one actually was.

The highly abstract electronic music used though-out counters the feeling that this is club material, as there is almost nothing danceable here. There is some impressive noodling, some of it also live, but like extreme guitar workouts it's the sort of musical fetishism that is probably only appreciated by practitioners.

In conclusion, there are some intriguing moments I could happily watch and re-watch here, and would love to see performed in a larger, sensory immersing environment, but these are interspersed with some dated and more limited material that distracts from the whole.

Worlds in Flux is released on Feb 26th on Fat Cat.

Ra – Wxfdswxc2 (Sublight)



This limited initial run of this brilliant new album from Raoul Sinier, who I would call the greatest export of French hip-hop influenced electronica, includes a bonus DVD of his video work. Ra's musical work and video work are both just as impressive and together form something greater than the sum of the parts. Although the parts are all worthy on their own. The detail and effort that goes into both is staggering, evidenced by the fact that even the credits on this disk is a short film in itself.

His videos for ddamage are also presented here – compete with animated David Lynch, um, cameo – for completeness, along with a little easter-egg (a plus symbol appears at the bottom of the menu after viewing the stills gallery) of his "day job" material, in the form of odds and sods of ads and flash web design.

The album is more abstract than his pervious Raoul Loves You and perhaps even darker and more brooding. The music alone is perhaps not as instantly accessible as some of his previous work but together with the video it all makes sense.

It seems a shame that for such a visual artist the packaging is so sparse, but considering what a bargain the two disk set is already that is perhaps asking slightly too much. Having said that, I would shell out extra for a book of some of his material.

Brilliant album / video combo. Get it now while you still can!

Wxfdswxc2 is out now on Sublight

Labels: DVD, Electronica, Music, Ra, Review, Semiconductor, Visuals

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