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Blog ā€œSacred Lumiaā€ by Louis M.Brill

Sacred Lumia Gallery by Louie M. Brill Louis M.Brill is a lumia artist who works from his Lumia art studio in San Francisco, US. He also writes a blog named, Sacred Lumia , here he explores "the processes of Lumia and how it fits into the world of art, cinema and culture as a visual medium of appreciationā€. This is a really great resource for artists and scholars interested in the practice and context of lumia art. Louis embraces ā€œthe light as the paintbrush and canvas to present Lumia art as a very evocative and nattarive visual presence.ā€ An important part of his practice is that lumia can be controlled through directed artistic intensions and I think this is a very commendable point. WIth the advent of technologies that can do the art for you, there is still the important consideration of artistic intention and from this stand point creating a work that works with light. Louis is open to comments and discussion on his blog, so please do drop by and join in the conversation...

A Concrete Cinema?

A Concrete Cinema? one of several articles and presentations by Christian Gosvig Olesen on the Curating the Moving Image Blog. Christian has researched this area with great thoroughness and his articles are an excellent resource for those tracking the history of visual music and audiovisual work where there one of its main focuses is on music. In contemporary audiovisual practice, visuals are presented with electroacoustic music and in particular there are many contemporary flavours of music concrete music being used alongside a visual equivalent - a moving image concrete. Concrete cinema is a most apt term here as used by Christian in his articles. He traces the connections with Pierre Schaeffer, whom used the term cinĆ©ma concret to describe the intention to work with cinema and music where the cinema is 'A visual counterpoint to what he, together with fellow composer Pierre Henry, had conceived as musique concrĆØte in the late 1940ā€²s." [Source: http://2011.curatingthemovi...

Tony Brooks Towards New Multisensory Spaces and Environments

Four Senses Concert, 2002 This important concert that took place in 2002 in the Dorothy Winstone Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand.  The four senses concert were a collaboration between Raewyn Turner (NZ) and Tony Brooks (UK). website:  link "The ā€˜Four Sensesā€™ 1999, 2002 concerts were to engage and reframe perception of music and to play with subjective experiences and simulated synesthesia. Each sensory element was constructed from information relating to the other elements. The associations and correspondences of the elements made by the audience was according to their own individual and personal experiences. The investigations include perception, misinterpretation, fictional translations and the sensory worlds of the blind/deaf: of hearing, of breathing in, and of visualizing music. Tony Brooks utilised sensors, software and projectors to create an interactive system capturing movement from the orchestra and translating it into painting with col...

'Raumlichtmusik' - Early 20th Century Abstract Cinema Immersive Environments.

"'Raumlichtmusik' - Early 20th Century Abstract Cinema Immersive Environments." Essay by Cindy Keefer (Director Center for Visual Music ) "Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Creative Data Special Issue. Leonardo: The International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology, and MIT Press. October 2009." This is an important historical visual music essay on Oskar Fischinger and Jordan Belson's early experiments in creating abstract cinema for immersive projection environments. It traces the origins in their work of what is more common today - the immersive multimedia environment. Information about plans Fischinger had to present a multimedia performance for the Farblichtmusik shows (started by LĆ”szlĆ³) has been researched and documented in this essay and is very exciting information to check out for the scholar interested in accurately tracing the origins of visual music and in particular, its links to contemporary multimedia performance. The vorte...
SOUND STAGE - concert of sound and image
Conference on Sonic Arts - 2006 - Amsterdam
International Festival of Animated Film - Stuttgart
Oskar Fishinger ARTICLES (scroll down page)
Article - Sound in Synaesthesia - Artforum
Book - Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality (2002)
Leonardo Book - Art At A Distance - Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet
Sound and Image - mediaartnet.org
Aesthetics of the Digital - mediaartnet.org
Overview of Media Art - mediaartnet.org

Jonathan Rosen - Animation - Motion - Graphics

Jonathan Rosen - Animation - Motion - Graphics Jonathan Rosen's website provides information and documentation in relation to Animation, Motion and Graphics projects. Quicktime video clips of the works are provided to preview the projects.

Leo Villareal - Light Installations

Leo Villareal - Lightscape "New York artist Leo Villarealā€™s Lightscape (2002)ā€”a large, ten-by-seven foot wall-mounted screen utilizing LED colored lightsā€”incorporates new computer and lighting techniques to build upon the effects of color organs of previous generations. " [Source text: http://articles.shwing.com/article_00165.php]

Nike Savvas - Installation - Lights replacing sound

Nike Savvas - Anthem Nick Savvas - Anthem - Detailed Screen "London-based artist Nike Savvasā€™ (b. 1964) Anthem (The Carny) (2003) is a silent installation of disco and theatrical lights that takes the music of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds as its source. Evoking light shows and discotheques, Savvas uses colored lights moving at different speeds to not only represent sound but to replace it entirely." [Source text: http://articles.shwing.com/article_00165.php ]

Granular Synthesis

Granular Synthesis - Pol Amazing Immersive Video Sound works

Jennifer SteinKamp - video and new media

Jennifer SteinKamp - Visual Music Installation Jennifer Steinkamp is an installation artist who works with video and new media in order to explore ideas about architectural space, motion, and phenomenological perception. [website: http://jsteinkamp.com/ ] Jennifer SteinKamp - Loop "Recent explorations employing digital media and installation represent a fulfillment of the tradition while suggesting new directions for visual music. Using multiple video projections and amplified sound, Jennifer Steinkamp (b. 1958) constructed a space where the viewer is immersed in an environment of lights, color, form, and movement synchronized to a sound composition by Bryan Brown. In her work SWELL (1995), three projectors present digital animations of glowing colored starburst forms, creating the impression of an infinite space in which light spirals out towards the viewer and spins back into the void." [source text: http://articles.shwing.com/article_00165.php ] Quicktime Video Clip - vide...