Sam Salem and I have a new website for our collaborative efforts!
Pond Life III was a great success at the S.LOW Projekt Berlin. Many thanks to Ricardo Climent, Iain McCurdy, and the whole S.LOW team!
Click here to see a video of the installation on vimeo:
Pond Life III opens tomorrow as part of the s.LOW Projekt. If you happen to be in Berlin, come check it out!
Opening 1900-2100 , Thursday August 5. See this flyer for directions.
I’m very excited that Sam Salem and I will be presenting and giving a talk on Pondlife III, the latest version of our audiovisual installation, at the s.LOW Projekt in Berlin this August, managed by Ricardo Climent! See the linked site for full schedule and information.
s.LOW is a Berlin-based cross-disciplinary project involving 34 international and national visual artists, music composers working with electronic media, musicologists, performers, engineers, physical scientists and film-makers. The project aims to articulate synergies from such a mixed community of individuals who have been invited to respond to the concept of 'slow' and or 'low ', in the context of the city of Berlin.
A major focus exists on the exchange of methodologies and knowledge, to address similar creative questions, which will investigate ideas such as; the creative use of s/low technologies versus cutting-edge ones; the degree of speed built into the creative process/thinking, particularly in cross-disciplinary works; high-low cultural streams as experienced by participants coming from academic and non-academic environments; slow/fast environmental impact of art and artists producing art; and finally, it has additional scope for investigation around vocabulary such as; low-cost/ recycled materials/low-budget/open source and related grammar.
As the result of collaborations among practitioners and their interaction with the local community, expected outcomes will range from the creation of new works, to residencies, screenings, discussion of methodologies employed, workshops, performances, coffee roundtables, etc., which will take place from July 15th to August 20th, 2010.
Pondlife III runs August 5th-11th, we will be giving a presentation on it at 1600 on August 6th. If you’re in or near Berlin, let me know!
Sam Salem and I showed Pondlife II at the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival. Thanks to them for having us!
Setting up
Here’s a video:
Pond Life II @ NYCEMF2, March 25th 2010, NYC from Fatal Error on Vimeo.
Pondlife, an interactive audiovisual installation by me and Sam Salem , had a run at ICMC 2009 , hosted by the Mcgill music department and CIRMMT in Montreal, Quebec.
The installation uses a projector to draw small, simulated microbes on the surface of water in a large plexiglass tank. A camera underneath the tank and submerged hydrophones allow the user (and via video feedback, the system itself) to interact with a simulated fluid which is projected on top of the real one. The sounds are triggered by the simulated creatures and change as the creatures are disturbed, grow, die, breed, and mutate. The most simple creatures can feed off the ‘light’ represented by 6 colored squares for which the viewer can adjust hue and intensity. Creatures thrive in their own color of light.
A big thanks are due to everyone at Mcgill and CIRMMT, who gave us a wonderful space and helped make the installation a success, and especially to Composer and Master Crafstman David Adamcyk who orchestrated the construction of the tank and supports and helped in myriad other ways.
There are three videos on Vimeo:
Pondlife II – ICMC 2009 from Windfarm Music on Vimeo.
Pretty Picture
Published May 28, 2009 Uncategorized , Visual Leave a CommentTags: Images, Miscellany, Visual Art
I submitted an image to the ‘Art of Science’ competion at school. Click the image to see the rest of the submissions; there are some fantastic microscopic and simulated images.
Blowup
The image was generated in Matlab, resulting from an unstable explicit curvature flow scheme. Compositing and some color balancing was done post, but otherwise the image is unedited.
