The organizers of DANCEiSM invited me to bring the interactive laser project to their show on Friday September 4th. It was held at Lot 613, a warehouse / event complex in downtown Los Angeles. They requested that I enclose the laser in an ‘abstract geometric shape’ to fit with their aesthetic direction. This was also [...]
Keep Reading » Comments OffMy interactive laser project, Contours, was featured as an installation outside the concert hall at Everybody Wants Everything, the 2009 MAT End-of-year show. The installation consisted of both laser and traditional video projection driven by a webcam. In addition to the live laser outline the system also periodically sampled and accumulated outlines to display history [...]
Keep Reading » Comments OffI was fortunate to have two videos featured in the demo reel for Everybody Wants Everything, the 2009 End-of-year show for Media Arts & Technology. In addition to the reel of generative colloquium intros I also showed an excerpt from an audio-visual collaboration with Aaron McLeran entitled “Pulse.” The video comes from the results of [...]
Keep Reading » Comments OffI presented two sets of six prints at Everybody Wants Everything, the 2009 End-of-year show for MAT. The first set is exploring additive complexity. The images were constructed by layering hundreds of faint lines that add up to create the final image. They look fairly homogeneous from afar and it is only when you look [...]
Keep Reading » Comments OffA few of us MAT students were special guests at the Studio 4D final show at Santa Barbara City College on May 19, 2009. In addition to screening the students’ final video projects we were invited to give short presentations and demonstrations of some of our work. Ryan McGee and Aaron McLeran performed some of [...]
Keep Reading » 1Media Garden was part of the UCSB Primavera festival and featured several performances by MAT students. I collaborated with the Rhythm Seminar for the first part of the event. The Rhythm Seminar, organized by Professor Matt Wright, consisted of several students recording, sampling, and processing live audio. They restricted themselves to only using sounds that [...]
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