A curated video screening, approximately one hour long, will also share the gallery space with the installations. Videos will be selected from different artists (some international, some from Saskatchewan), each working in some way with collaborative and/or interactive processes of creating video. These works come from the field of VJing (or interactive live cinema performance, if you prefer), demonstrating a synergistic marriage of sound and moving image. Technologies included so far are: Max/MSP/Jitter, Pure Data, Arkaos, no-input audio and video mixer, animation, vintage 1980s Fairlight mixers, video painters, Arduinos, circuit-bent toys, and Flash.
A recent issue of vague terrain (online new media magazine http://www.vagueterrain.net/journal09), curated by Carrie Gates, focused on international VJ culture, and may be of interest for background research on some of the artists included in this project.
Constantine Katsiris and Domenico Sciajno, Erin Gee and Freida Abtan, Francis Theberge and Victortronic, KERO and disassembly, Leeane Berger and Darsha Hewitt, Mo Selle and Jeff Morton, VJzoo
Constantine Katsiris [Canada] and Domenico Sciajno [Italy] collaborate on a live audio/visual performance for the Congresso di Musica Elettronica Indipendente, held at ASK 191 in Palermo, Italy on May 31, 2008. This video is an excerpt taken from the A/V output recording, which features Katsiris on live sound processing and Sciajno on live video processing.
The animation of an oil painting becomes a window into the infrathin space between creation and destruction. The muse and the painting become trapped in their movements: a temporary conversation with one another. Two vultures oversee this magical reincarnation: the death of a muse, the birth of the new.
The 2nd part of the a/v performance TRAME00, TRAME 01 is a collaborative a/v work between Victortronic and Francis Theberge from the collective TIND from Montréal. Controlled improvisations meet prepared interventions and mastered errors both using rebuilt/hacked audio visual analog mixers and instruments. This project has been soley done by internet, no "physical" meeting has been made between the two artists.
A collaborative work that explores ideas of space, sound, synethesia, and the visceral. Through the use software and hardware a bridge is formed between the mind and the computer, effectively extending the landscape of our minds.
Visual forms of communication have found a mainstay in today's
society. An abundance of web applications and social living
networks has certainly changed the face of everyday interactions
and relationships forever.
Colin Campbell showed us the potential deceptive nature of these
visual means of communication, a more applicable issue today
than ever before.
A soundscape by Darsha Hewitt and an interview by Leeane Berger conducted with behind the scenes glimpses and a whimsical character portrayal.
The character created in Ballad is not unlike that of the personas that Campbell created in his own video art. Attuned to the fast paced technological development of today fused with the idea of the endangered oral “acoustic” interaction, this audio/visual article attempts to combat the fear of a technology revolution yet reveal the opportunity for untruths with visually obsessed media.
This video reminds me of starfish and concrete. Does it remind us there can be mirror references and hexagons to look at practically everywhere all the time anyway? Like as in traffic and our herding ourselves with signs? And equally as much such as just enjoying seeing a geometric pattern in motion or feeling a bounce between eye and ear?
A dark, moody remix of two classic Expressionist films, Der Golem (1920) and Faust (1926), exploring themes of seduction, corruption and redemption. This has been layered with our 'video painting' style, giving a sense of the film melting and burning reminiscent of Bill Morrison's Decasia but without the destruction of archival material ;)