About twenty motivated comic painters met last friday at the brick5 in Vienna where they stayed 24hours together and produced as much as they could or wanted to…
the results will be shown as an exhibition at the Brick5.
24h Comics – exhibition
Opening: 8th July – 6pm
Exhibition opening hours: 9th July to the 13th July; 3pm to 6pm
Brick5: 15., Fünfhausgasse 5
A short video’s gonna be online soon!
And here it is!!! Have FUN!
To quote another artist exhibiting at Sonar, ‘I hate crowds, but I’ve never hated a crowd this big.’ SonarMatica (the multimedia exhibition inside Sonar Complex) turned out to be a nice place to escape from the relentless chaos and irreparable ear damage. Be warned, there is nothing in this blog about music and only very partial coverage of one multimedia exhibition. I managed to miss SonarCinema, Sonarama and Arte Digital A La Carta, having spent all my time in the dark vault where Sonarmatica took place nursing my piece.
The theme at Sonarmatica this year is future-past cinema. Beautiful pieces of pre-cinematic technology are resurrected and displayed side by side with some very slick new media art. This really brings an interesting historical perspective to the exhibition. I think it’s a good idea to be humbled by the old timers now and then. For example, Alvaro Cassinelli’s ‘Boxed Ego’ which exploits stereoscopic lenses faces a large 18th century stereoscope. Two centuries can be traversed by a few steps. ‘Boxed Ego’ invites the audience to peer into a box to see a tiny three dimensional video of him/her self in the act of peeping. The video is deliberately delayed which creates an interesting awareness of time. The theme of self-voyeurism is unsurprisingly very popular with the festival goers.
Marnix de Nijs’s “The Beijing Accelerator” is quite an experience. A joy stick is used to synchronize the movement of the chair with the movement of the city scape on screen. Giddy, disorienting and fun, it’s tempting to ignore what the artist intends and just spin as fast as possible while trying not to fall off.
“Stage Fright” uses the simple mechanism of a swing to make a simple narrative unfold. The participant must swing as high as possible in order to see what happens next. The project is developed at the Medialab-Prado during the Interativos workshop with a team of awesome collaborators. I especially want to thank Valeria Marraco, Sytse Wierenga and Emanuel Andel for creating the video.
One of my favorite pieces at SonarMatica is Julien Maire’s performance “DemiPas”. It features a converted projector that uses slides which are intricate little machines in themselves. The complicated mechanical movement of the ‘slides’ animate different scenes and push the story forward. It was whimsical and moving, I strongly recommend seeing it. It worked nicely with Takashi Kawashima’s shadow puppetry performance “Takashi’s Seasons” which mixes the traditional and the new.
Other cool pieces…
FLIPBOOK! – Juan Carlos Ospina Gonzalez / Fabrica
Andy Cameron, Oriol Ferrer Mesià, David McDougall, Joel Gethin Lewis, Hansi Raber – FABRICA – We Are The Time. We Are The Famous
Julian Oliver – levelHead
Paola Guimerans, Horacio González e Igor González – Biophionitos
A zoetrope!
3 reasons to put the video online, even though it’s out of date since the “Interactivos” Workshop is over since ages:
1. Nova Jiang’s installation “Stage Fright” is still exhibited at this years sonar exhibition
2. I always wanted to try portrait shaped video online
3. the video is shot with a construction, that was built by Sytse Wierenga within a day, for that the output is great.
This is a small video that shows the location and one of the first try’s…
and this is the final shot:
thats what the final installation looks like:
Oh how much I love Vienna in summertime! Cool fresh summer breeze… to be open air just somewhere around… and enjoying Viennas great cultural summer programm. I just came home from the opening night of the frame(o)ut festival that is currently going on – open air – in the Museumsquartier. Every friday and saturday night – from the 4th July to the 30th August – you have the chance to watch new digital short movies, open air with head phones.
So don’t forget to bring your driving licens or passport to get those radio headpones so that you can enjoy the videos with maximum sound without disturbing the sleepy neighbours….
What your’re gonna see for exemple are some great short films or music videos from the newest onedotzero compilation. Cause Onedotzero – the well known digital film festival and production company from London – is one of fram(o)ut’s cooperation partners as well as the real time generation fesitval that is also going on at the Museumsquartier. Further partners are Pictoplasma from Berlin, sixpackfilm, vienna independent shorts and ASIFA.
And here for you…some shorts of the shorts. Enjoy!
Demoscene Special “run demo run” # 1 – realtime generation festival
James Elkins is teaching at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is currently E.C. Chadbourne Chair in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism. His writing focuses on the history and theory of images in art, science, and nature.
The presentation will look at some ways that recent filmmaking technologies, especially those developed in science (and some specifically in the military), should make it difficult to keep using concepts such as still, film, motion, and picture in the ways they are used in film criticism. It is a speculative presentation, proposing that films made outside art can contribute to current theorizing in film studies
First Day of the shooting, after yesterday’s indoor shootings we realized that the idea with the flashes won’t work out so we moved outside. Moving the whole setup and realizing the camera is quite tricky, especially because the viewfinder of the cameras is like you’d expect it from a 10$ camera… here are two of the scenes we shot:
Here are the setpic’s oft the day:
Continue reading ‘Immodesty, Day 9’
It works, somehow:
Looks cool, but actually it’s not: the fact that the flashes are going off during 4-7 frames means that we have a rang of about a 1/3 sec within the cameras are releasing… this is a raw example of ne of our first test shootings:
More explanation tomorrow, hasta mañana
This was a lecture on May 31st. The Team of the Medialab Prado flew in Ruth Sergel from New York in order to tell us about the media-techniques magican’s have been using for ages. I enjoyed the lecture a lot, to me it show the close relationship between art, magic, and people not understanding the technology used:
After a series of set-backs in the electronics department of our project, we can celebrate a big step forward today. Most of the electronics are working, all that’s left to do is to increase the power to trigger the cameras in order to overcome the long distances of the extension cables – hurray!
Simone showed me two more really helpful things: what you can see here is called wire wrapping. It’s a technique to create circuits w/o soldering, and it looks great ;) You have to use wrap pins that you simply beat into the board, then you use a little stick to put the wire around the pin, which is actually faster done than soldering.
Also Simone showed me a kind of “Bible” for people hacking around with circuits: The Cmos Cookbook. This seem to be really useful, it contains all cmos components available including description, picture and explanation how to connect them.
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