Waterwheel documentation – residency #1 at the Judith Wright Centre
photos by Laura Steiner – performer-deviser Anna Yen – rehearsals and last showing of the work in progress developed during a residency at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Art in Brisbane, 22 October 2011
EMPAC Medialab
"Smush-grid" installation by Sarah Dahnke
some photos of the latest trips on flickr.
EMPAC medialab blog: you can watch timelapse videos (made by James Cunningham) of the entire workshop, as well as lots of photos of the experiments
This video is the first ‘camera/tripod’ duet improv that
James Cunningham did.
Adrien Monot – juggling with light
Adrien Monot is also developing a software called eMotion a tool for creating interactive motions of objects for live visual performances.
Cairns with Bonemap
Yes, got my both knees fixed (torn menisci), and I am on the road again!
I am following Bonemap process to make their new work COVE at KickArts/COCA in Cairns.
I wanted to learn more about Isadora software for which one of the collaborators (Jason Holdsworth) programmed a patch for particles (using Freeframe + a library he found online with Star Trek particles!!!) and in exchange I am documenting. Interesting work, but as usually with projections on black scrims, a nightmare to document! The audient (only 1 person can enter the cove at a time) dives the screen, interacting at several levels: with the projected visuals initiated by Russell Milledge, the surround sound by Steven Campbell and with Rebecca Youdell the performer who takes people on a memory/dream-like journey. To be experienced more than talked about! Below, a making of/behind the scene video.
I also went to a dance meeting organised by Arts Nexus about a Dance strategy developed for Far North Queensland: interesting to see the diversity of people and cultures, always same question about how to connect with the art world and generate audience interest while so remote from capital cities.
I gave 2 presentations of my work to students from James Cook University and listen to a group of them pitching their project.
KEDJA Oslo + TELE-PLATEAUS
In October 09, KEDJA Oslo encounter was focusing on Dance and New Media.
Kedja from Creation Editor on Vimeo.
TELE-PLATEAUS event this morning 6 Dec 09, at 5am (Oz time) in the context of Cynetart Festival in Dresden. Aim of Tele-Plateaus: to establish a permanent network allowing for direct audiovisual real-time interactions between similarly configured public sites and performance stages across Europe. Tele-Plateaus is composed, controlled and structured by movements of people from different cities. Within these networked stages and sites people from Dresden, Madrid, Norrköping, and Prague (among the first connected cities) can dance and play together. They can simultaneously create pictures, sounds, and light effects by means of their own movements without operating any additional interfaces. The shared virtual hyper-site is based on the generation of data that is available for processing to all computers within a common network. Movement parameters (speed, spatial position, etc.) are captured and digitalised by camera-based motion system and exchanged between computers at distant locations with a technically similar configuration.
DANCETECH was producing the streaming of the event and diffusing interviews about the processes experienced by artists participating at the preparation of the event. (I found some interviews posted afterwards here)
SEAM – robot photos
This robot has been made by Gerald Thompson in the context of the Quartet Project initiated and directed by Margie Medlin. Here performer/choreographer Bianca (from Perth) is meeting the robot in a duet, as she is going to work with the platform later next year.
Few pix of plenary session on the lawn next to The Drill Hall. Beautiful place next to the marina. Bert Bonkers projected on lots of surfaces around The Drill with his speakers in backpack and portable projector in hands, with addition of a device allowing him to change the shape of the frame and fit immediately the projection to the space.
