FOLDS video installation - Robert Seidal

FOLDS
Robert Seidel
Lindenau Museum, Altenburg / Germany
18.6.ˆ14.8.2011


FOLDS is a 2-channel video installation with projections on 19th century plaster casts of Kladeos, Kephissos,
Belvedere Torso, Seer and the Three Goddesses from the Bernhard August von Lindenau Collection.
It connects to the fragmentary plaster casts, makes them flow with bygone colors, clothes them and wakes
them for a moment then to be stored as into the sediment of oblivion.

Documentation of the installation
Vimeo // http://www.vimeo.com/robertseidel/folds 
Youtube // http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmg3L0ai5Uo 
Web // http://www.robertseidel.com/folds.225.0.html
Catalog // http://www.lindenau-museum.de/index.php?id=96
PR // http://robertseidel.com/folds_lindenau-museum_robert-seidel.pdf 


Websites:

Studio Robert Seidel
http://www.robertseidel.com
Robert Seidel Vimeo Channel
http://www.vimeo.com/robertseidel/folds

View Folds Documentation on Vimeo

folds | installation documentation | lindenau museum altenburg, germany | robert seidel | 2011 from Robert Seidel on Vimeo.

Jane Cassidy - Square Ball Insallation

Jane Cassidy's new visual music piece - Square Ball is an installation piece and its inaugural presentation took place in Dublin, in August 2011 as part of the Glitch Festival 2011 organised by MART.

This was a really beautiful and clever installation that really is something that needs to be seen and sensed, as an audience member one has to face the projector as the most amazing layers of imagery and patterns unfold with great connections to the music.

Video excerpt online courtesy of Red Rua



Visit Jane's Blog
http://janecassidy.net/

Kurt Laurenz Theinert - Visual Piano

Light Installation Artist - Kurt Laurenz Theinert - Visual Piano

Kurt Laurenz Theinert is a photographer and light artist, who develops, performs and installs incredible light installations.  The following is a summary of his visual piano instrument.

"The visual piano is an instrument which makes it possible to create moving images in a space. It is unique and was conceived and developed by the photographer and light installation artist Kurt Laurenz Theinert in collaboration with the software designers Roland Blach and Philip Rahlenbeck.

Using a MIDI-keyboard it is possible to generate varying graphic patterns which can be digitally projected onto one or more screens. These dynamic and immediate drawings in light are not (as with VJ soft-and Hardware) generated by pre-recorded clips, but every moment of the performance is being played and modulated live and in real time via the keyboard and pedals."

Source from website [Text: Winfried Stürzl]
http://www.theinert-lichtkunst.de/klt_eng_start.html




Visit his website for more information on his work, installations, collaborations and performances.

The visual piano has been used in installations and in audiovisual concerts. 

"Over several years the pianist Martin Stortz and Kurt Laurenz Theinert have been exploring the relationship between pianosounds and graphic patterns generated in realtime by using the visual piano. Sound an image interact in a very sensitiv dialogue - creating an audivisual concert."
source: Link

on the link above, there is a link to a quicktime video clip excerpt

Website: http://www.theinert-lichtkunst.de/klt_eng_start.html


Youtube embed: Light Concert
marienkirche stuttgart, nikola lutz, saxofon, kurt laurenz theinert, visual piano

onedotzero_adventures in motion - 2010 - call for works

"onedotzero_adventures in motion: festival call for submissions!

a fantastic opportunity to get your work seen by a like-minded, connected and creative international community.

this years festival premieres at the bfi southbank, London 10-14 november 2010 before touring internationally.

deadline for receiving entries is 30th june 2010, 5pm.

onedotzero are seeking innovative short films, installations, interactive work and live audiovisual performances to showcase at the bfi southbank, london, uk, 10-14 november 2010. the five-day festival is the first stop on onedotzero's extensive worldwide network of events.

onedotzero_adventures in motion has been the largest dedicated digital short film festival in the world since 1999. over fourteen years the programme has expanded to embrace a wide range of digital motion arts and is acclaimed by artists, audiences and creative industries alike for providing a platform to explore new ideas and fresh innovation through curated compilation screenings, features, exhibitions, live av performances, club nights, presentations and panel discussions.

submit now! this is your chance to showcase your work on an international platform and it is completely free to enter! "
Source: onedotzero submissions page

Visit: http://www.onedotzero.com/submissions for more information and for submission form

Sara Rossi - Installation "TV effect"

Sara Rossi's beautiful video installation - "TV effect" created in 2008, is being exhibited as part of the "LookAtFestival 2010" consisting of Video Art and Music, to be held in Italy, from 15 to 30 May, 2010.
Sara's video installation caught my eye for the use of three screens and optical effects that remind me of much visual music work.

View video excerpt and still images of "TV effect" on Sara's website
http://www.sararossi.net/work/tv_effect/tv_con_video.html


LookAtFestival info:
http://www.lookatfestival.it/

Sara Rossi websitehttp://www.sararossi.net/

48X48 - Installation by Visual System

48X48 from VS Team on Vimeo.

Installation du collectif Visual System, pour l'édition 2009 du festival Scopitone à Nantes.

48X48 a été réalisée par Julien Guinard, Stephen Roques et Valère Terrier.

Une sculpture lumineuse interactive et contrôlable, une œuvre volumétrique en apesanteur de 64m2, le collectif travaille sur des structures architecturales provisoires avec une technologie détournée : la led. Conçue comme un espace de lumière sans armature, généré par son environnement, elle happe le spectateur qui mènera rapidement un jeu spatial (sa position), architectural (points de vue de l’installation dans l’espace) et cinétique (vitesse de déplacement), alors conditionnés par la présence ou absence de lumière.

Remerciement très spécial à Monsieur Thierry Pillet et à la Fondation Jean-Luc Lagardère qui sont à nos côtés depuis le début.

A previous post showing their architectural installations is here

biot(h)ing - Invisibles - Alisa Andrasek

I have just come across this most interesting installation research project to be shortly exhibited in paris. There is a lot of imagery that uses software generative processes to create "scripted" imagery - these images are always incredibly beautiful, and ordered displaying the most wonderful 'ordered' patterns that would be very hard to realise/create by hand processes. When these patterns are tied up to audio processes, then the most incredible synergy seems to take place. This project is a very physical realisation of both scripted animation and an interactive sonar field. What caught my eye was the imagery and the tight connection with sound. (Author comment)

"biot(h)ing - Invisibles is an interactive installation exhibited at the Prague Biennale and is to be exhibited at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2009. ‘Invisibles' by biot(h)ing uses holosonic speakers to create sound patterns projected into an interactive space. These speakers isolate individual cones of sound, creating a counterintuitive experience for the visitors as they move through different vibrations of sonar projections. At the same time LCD Screens display streams of information as it crystallizes and becomes visible through pulses of dynamic morphologies of 3D Cells scripted in animation software. These crystallized streams may also be affected by the physical environment through an interactive sonar field. At the core of this audio/visual/physical interface is an interactie sound programming environment that alters conventional forms of musical composition through the incorporation of algorithmically based processes. The user navigates the software's internal intelligence less like a composer and more like a programmer, adjusting various parameters to indirectly influence the system's internal network dynamics. The granular synthesis of sound results form the generation of thousands of short sonic grains which are combined linearly to form large-scale audio events."



"biothing is a research-design laboratory whose structure derives from particular linkages between various disciplinary and technological nodes, promoting intra-specific creative relationships which in turn serve as a transformative tissue for the design process itself..."
http://www.biothing.org/flash.htm

More info on biothing at:

http://www.biothing.org/wiki/doku.php?id=biothing

biothing has published work see wiki link below


http://www.biothing.org/wiki/doku.php

See also:

http://scriptedbypurpose.wordpress.com/participants/biothing/

This work is incredible - stunning.  Definitely worth adding a link to the photos on flickr

Flicker photos at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/30976595@N00/

Collectif EXYZT - inter disciplinary

EXYZT is a inter disciplinary collective based in paris ( architects, artists, cooks, graphic designer, vj's, ... )

These video excerpts documenting are so good I had to embed a few of them here, so I could easily come back to this post again and view these incredible vj/dj/performance, live, architecture sets - see their video channel on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/user/exyzt

Boom-Box / Dj'stage / EXYZT / 1024 / Nuit-Blanche / Amiens / 4. oct 2008

USHBOOM / EXYZT @ Karosta / 2007


"A Video performance at the Labichampi festival in karosta ( Latvia )... As ninauguration of the timber structure we built in the an abandonned soviet house we performed on the facade thanks to a very simple set up. 1 mac 3 4500 lum beamers ...
K@2 futur art center ?! in 2010"


Square CUBE / ETIENNE DE CRECY LIVE / Model Test



Vimeo
"An amazing electronic music live by Etienne de Crecy at the "transmusicales de Rennes" music festival"

Etienne De Crecy Live 2007 Transmusicales de Rennes from Clement bournat on Vimeo.

Otolab - Italy

"Otolab was founded in 2001 in Milan by an affinity group of musicians, djs, vjs, videoartists, videomakers, web designers, graphic designers and architects joined to go through a common path in the field of the electronic music and audiovisual research.
The projects are developed through lab sessions, seminars and live performance according to the principles of brainstorming and mutual support, free circulation of knowledge and experimentation."

See the otolab vimeo video channel for examples of their audiovisual works and performances

http://www.otolab.net/
http://www.vimeo.com/otolab

Selection of audiovisual works project descriptions
Op7

otolab, op7 (demo) from otolab on Vimeo.

otolab 2007 --audio: sn, dies_, mud, scrub, maikko, tonylight --video: mud, dies_, xo00, peppolasagna, fd, orgone --total time (live): 50,00'

"op7 is a live audiovisual performance that develops a new way of reading the concept of the tunnel as a metaphor of the journey and the survey about the audiovisual perception, through the optical language.
The project was realized for the Mixed Media festival taking place at the Hangar Bicocca in front of the installation “Seven Heavenly Doors” of Kiefer. Seven entrances, seven tunnels, seven journeys throughout as many experience optical environments looking for the final entire and unique wholeness."
http://www.otolab.net/data/projects/op7/op7-body.htm
see review of Otolabs at Cimatics 2007 "the graphics were made in 3DStudio Max" Three screen performance.

field

otolab, field from otolab on Vimeo.

audio: ssim_el
video: orgone
otolab 2007

remains 01-02

otolab, remains 01-02 from otolab on Vimeo.

audio and video: dies_
Total time: 30'
otolab 2005
"The techniques: Two sources are mixed on the screen: the first one is the 3D rendering that composes the narrative plot of the main body and its deformations; the second source is given by AVS files that move geometrically following the sound input coming from a laptop where the whole sound performance is carried out live."
http://www.otolab.net/data/projects/remains/remains-body.htm

events listing on their website

http://www.otolab.net/data/events/events_body.html

12_Series by Telcosystems - 2009

12_Series is a new generative multichannel computer installation by Telcosystems (NL).

12_series - work in progress pt. 2 from Telcosystems.

"The installation is an audiovisual horizon comprised of twelve identical image and sound generating machines.  
The software for these machines is based on the idea of evolution, implementing forms of audiovisual imitation, mutation and recombination, aiming for the emergence of captivating complexity from a vocabulary of rudimentary shapes, sounds and logic.
The system is build around the notion of decentralized autonomous decision making, where each machine displays its own generative behavior, while reacting to behavior of neighboring machines and adapting to centrally organized environmental variables. In this way the installation focuses on the tension between the individual and the group, between the machine specific development and the group dynamics that determine the ever-evolving horizon.

Imitation will be used as a way to start complex group behavior, steering groups of machines into similar audiovisual directions. Mutation will initiate variation, by injecting errors into this imitation process and recombination enables the interchange and reinterpretation of output material amongst the twelve machines, adding another layer of coherency.
Besides finding ways to create the building blocks that assemble into complex generative individuals, the aim is to find boundaries for their mutative behavior, in a way that allows the result to surpass our imagination."
- Source: http://vimeo.com/4118369
- Source: http://www.telcosystems.net/index.php/projects/2009-12_series/

Main Telcosystems website

About Telcosystems

"Telcosystems researches the relation between the behavior of programmed numerical logic and the perception of a conversion of this behavior into the physical world, seeking for its own narrative in the world of abstract spatial image and sound. The hallmark of their work is its lucid and restrained aestheticism, which is closely related to the technology they use."
http://www.telcosystems.net/index.php/about/

The Light Bead Curtain

"description
The Light Bead Curtain is an interactive musical installation that can be freely played by person's touch. The installation takes the form of a beaded curtain; strings of simple clear beads. Each bead, on a users touch, lights itself and emits a unique sound. People play with the curtain by weaving their hands through it, touching it with their faces, and moving through it with their body. An environment of light and sound is created when people engage with the curtain. "
http://amaret.net/ami/?p=lightbead&y=2005#desc

Limiteazero - Laptop Orchestra

laptop_orchestra is an interactive synaesthetic instrument, designed for performances of audio visual compositions in real time.

The space conformation of the fifteen laptops, arranged on regular rows, brings back to the formation of an orchestral group.

http://limiteazero.net/l_o/index.html

Limiteazero is an architecture, media design and media art studio based in Milan, Italy, founded in 1998 by Paolo Rigamonti and Silvio Mondino.

"Limiteazero’s areas of expertise include: installations design, responsive environment design, crossmedia design for retail, media in architecture and public space, interaction design.
The studio works both on independent research projects and commissioned installations, for clients like Toshiba, BlackBerry, Alberto Aspesi, Nice, Siemens, Antonio Citterio & Partners." Source

Database of Virtual Art

"The Database of Virtual Art documents the rapidly evolving field of digital installation art. This complex, research-oriented overview of immersive, interactive, telematic and genetic art has been developed in cooperation with established media artists, researchers and institutions. The web-based, cost-free instrument - appropriate to the needs of process art - allows individuals to post material themselves. Compiling video documentation, technical data, interfaces, displays, and literature offers a unique answer to the needs of the field. All works can be linked with exhibiting institutions, events and bibliographical references. Over time the richly interlinked data will also serve as a predecessor for the crucial systematic preservation of this art."

HEAD, SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTION & ARTIST NETWORK
Prof. Dr. Oliver Grau

http://www.virtualart.at/common/recentDocument.do

Soundwaves - Kinetica Museum, Spitalfields, London

Soundwaves - A collaboration between kinetica museum and cybersonica.
18th May - 29th June 2007
London

http://www.kinetica-museum.org/new_site/

Moonlight - Interactive Visualization of Beethoven's No.14

http://levitated.net/exhibit/darkside/

Moonlight is an interactive installation of the visualization of the first movement of Beethoven's No.14 Sonata.