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Jim Campbell - Electronics Artist

Jim Campbell's website documents his projects and installations. The site is framebased hence you will need to browse through the menus to access information in relation to his works and installations. The categories that he has divided his work into are: | Public Art | Installations | Memory Works | Ambiguous Icons (LED Works) | Illuminated Averages | Objects | Duds He provides movie clips to some of his projects. His Illuminated Averages section is fascinating. "Illuminated Averages are a series of images displayed in light boxes in which each image is created by averaging all of the frames of a moving sequence. For example the first one created was an average of all the frames of the film Psycho. In that work almost 2 hours are collapsed to create one single image." His Ambiguous Icons section "explores the relationship between information and meaning, in the context of reduced or compressed levels of information. These works incorporate the fairly new technol...

Jeremy Blake

"Jeremy Blake creates continually looping DVDs with sound to be projected or presented on plasma screens. Blake also makes large digital C-prints, as well as small quasi-narrative drawings and paintings. For proper presentation, the DVDs are either to be projected onto a wall using an appropriately specified LCD projector with the image the size of a large painting, or played on a 50-inch wide or larger wall-mounted plasma screen." Jeremy Blake Jeremy Blake - Station to Station 5 Jeremy Blake - Angel Dust 2000 Angel Dust 2000 sequence for DVD with sound for projection or plasma screen 20 minute continuous loop Jeremy Blake - Chemical Sundown

Acme Filmworks

Acme Filmworks This site provides showreels for a number of experimental filmmakers/ animators. Sadly the site is framebased, so to access the filmmakers highlighted here, you will need to go through the various menus. The filmmakers are categorised under various catergories. Here is screenshots of filmmakers that look really interesting. Acme Filmworks - Nibbles by Christopher Hinton Acme Filmworks - Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis - Flash Animation Acme Filmworks - Alain Escalle Acme Filmworks - Oliver Harrison Acme Filmworks - Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck Acme Filmworks - Frank & Caroline Mouris Acme Filmworks - Gianluigi Toccafondo

Alain Escalle - Special Effects and Direction

What can I say, stunning special effects artist and filmmaker Fontevraud - Director Alain ESCALLE, Music Jean-Baptiste BARRIERE Rock de chambre - Jean-Philippe GOUDE. Projections live - Alain ESCALLE Nature Animation

Christian Boustani - Films

Direction:Christian BOUSTANI Visual effects & Graphic design: Alain ESCALLE Cities From the Past: Bruges A Viagem Direction:Christian BOUSTANI Visual effects & Graphic design: Alain ESCALLE

Sue Costabile - Sue C

Sue Costabile Textural Technology. Moving Image Specialist. Video Artist. Photographer. Live Cinema Producer. Live Animation Stunt Woman. Audio-Visual Gaga. Mothership Mother. Urban Gardener. Nature Lover. Teacher. User of max/msp/jitter. Mini Movie Maker. Check Website: http://www.sue-c.net/ Vimeo channel:  http://vimeo.com/suec http://www.minimoviemovement.net/ Vimeo Video Original Post: 08/02/2005 Sue Costabile is a video artist and photographer working mainly in a live improvisational settings. Her set up inlcudes a small camera, a light pad and various drawings, watercolors, photos and found objects which she animates with her hands and a computer program called Jitter. [adapted from texts at following website] Sue Constabile - Transmediale 2004

TamƔs Walicky - Media Artist

http://www.waliczky.net/waliczky_start.htm TamƔs Waliczky was born in 1959, Budapest, Hungary. He started out by creating animations at the age of nine. Then he worked as painter, illustrator and photographer. He began working with computers in 1983. He was artist-in-residence at the ZKM Institute for Visual Media in 1992, and subsequently a member of the Institute's research staff (1993-1997) before taking up a guest professorship at the HBK Saar , Saarbrucken (1997-2002). The IAMAS in Gifu, Japan, has choosen Waliczky as artist-in-residence in 1998-99. From 2003 until 2005 he is professor at Fachhochschule Mainz . Between 2005 and 2010 he is at HBK Saar again, this time as full time professor. Since September 2010 he is professor at School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong . His works won numerous international awards, including the Golden Nica of Prix Ars Electronica , Linz, was shown in several exhibitions worldwide, including the Biennial of Lyon, t...

Jeffrey Shaw and Dennis Del favero - AVIE

AVIE -Advanced Visualisation and Interaction Environment Project Overview Jeffrey Shaw  and  Dennis Del Favero with  Matthew McGinity ,  Ardrian Hardjono  and  Volker Kuchelmeister AVIE  is the worldā€™s first 360-degree stereoscopic immersive interactive visualisation system that includes a motion tracking systems and a multi-channel audio system. Driven by an experimental framework, it uses a suite of cutting edge hardware and software resources enabling the development of applications in Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence. AVIE  has been installed as  core visualisation infrastructure  at  ZKM , Centre for Art and media, Karlsruhe, Germany, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Rensselaer Polytechnic University, New York,  USA , where it forms the centre piece of next generation research and teaching programs. Museum Victoria, Melbourne, has installed an  AVIE  for its current  Dynami...

Jeffrey Shaw - Installations, Interactivity,Virtuality

Jeffrey Shaw - Installations, Interactivity,Virtuality b (1944) Australia Jeffrey Shaw's website provides extensive documentation of his projects and collaborations. His work is also documented on the iCinema website. Projects Configuring the Cave (1996) Computergraphic installation with Agnes Hegedues and Bernd Lintermann iCinema Documentation - Quicktime video clips online Jeffrey Shaw Documentation - Quicktime video clips online note new version of this work reconFiguring the CAVE (2001) documented on iCinema Jeffrey Shaw - ConFIGURING the CAVE "ConFIGURING the CAVE is constituted by seven differentiated pictorial domains. Movement of the puppets body and limbs dynamically modulate various parameters in the image and sound generating software, while particular postures of the puppet cause specific visual events to occur. Most significantly it is the action of moving the puppet's hands to cover and then uncover its eyes, which causes the tran...

Antony Raijekov - Mediabox

Antony Raijekov - Audio-Visual Triptych "Mediabox" "MEDIABOX (2004) is an interactive audio-visual triptych that allows the viewer while observing the pictures, to activate and mix different musical instruments and thus generate uniquely composed music." website Video excerpt: http://conf.linux-bg.org/fb/data/2004-12/mediabox/MOV01560.MPG

Gordon Monahan - multimedia sound installations

Gordon Monahan - multimedia sound installations - b (1956) Canada Gordon Monahan is a composer and sound artist (Canada) who creates multimedia sound installations and installations. His website provides extensive documentation of his works. "Gordon Monahan creates music, sound sculpture, sound installation, and computer-controlled sound environments that span various genres from avant garde concert music to multi-media installation and sound art." website Gordon Monahan - Speaker Swinging (1982) ...Speaker Swinging is an experiment for three or more swinging loudspeakers and nine audio oscillators in an enclosed space.... website. Quicktime video clip of this work is available at: http://www.mediaartnet.org/works/speakers-swinging/ Visit website documentation: http://www.gordonmonahan.com/pages/speaker_swinging.html "Speaker Swinging 1st performance: Mercer Union, Toronto, 1982 Speaker Swinging is an experiment for three or more swinging loudspeakers...

Jean PichƩ - videomusic

Jean PichƩ - videomusic b (1951) Canada " Jean PichƩ is a composer who has developed into a video artist over the past few years. His practice meshes moving images and music in a new hybrid form he calls videomusic. In his beginnings as an electroacoustic composer in the 1970s, he was one of the very first Canadians to employ the then emerging digital audio technologies. He has produced works in every genre of electroacoustics for mixed and acousmatic to live-electronics. His work aims for poetic expression beyond any sort of formalism. The work has been alternately described as confounding, colorful and virtuosistic." source text Jean PichƩ's website provides information, documentation and Quicktime video clips on his videomusic, sound music work. He has also has created a software programme Cecilia (which can be downloaded from his site) to make sound. "Sound in its widest definition. Sound as music, sound as composition, sound as accessory." Jean Pi...

Joseph Hyde - Sound and Video Multimedia

Joe Hyde's project Zeotrope 1998 "explores issues around the relationship between people and machines, and questions perceptions of the 'perfection' of technology. It is about use and misuse; abuse, breakdown. " View video and info at: http://www.josephhyde.co.uk/video/zoetrope/ Joseph Hyde's website provides documentation, video clips and audio clips of his projects and collaborations. His work combines media into audiovisual works - electroacoustic music and video, interactive projects etc. He uses digital and electronic media to make sonic and multimedia works, installations and performances. Areas of exploration in his work are the complex interaction of abstract sound and image, and the integration of interactive technology into live performance where he also works with improvisation and sampling. More info available on his website Blog update May 2011 "Sound is absolutely at the centre of Zoetrope. It is the sound that carries the piece, ...

John Crawford - Dance and hybrid media

John Crawford - videodance, interactive media and performance John Crawford creates hybrid media work that combines live performance of contemporary dance, digital video animations derived from the movement of the dancers, interactive physical environment. He provides extensive documentation of his works, collaborations and provides an excellent portfolio of projects at: http://www.embodied.net/portfolio.html Active Space - An Embodied Media Environment Active Space is an interactive physical environment that engages participants in a dialog of mutual influence involving movement, visuals and sound. Developed by video artist and software designer John Crawford in association with choreographer Lisa Naugle and composer Martin Gotfrit, the Active Space is a site for exploring integration of body-centered performance practices with motion tracking software, motion capture animation, live video and music composition systems. More info: Lisa Naugle carries out interesting res...

Edwin van der Heide - Sound Modulated Light #1

Edwin van der Heide - Sound Modulated Light #1 Installation sound modulated light installation screenshot "Sound Modulated Light #1 is an environment of light and sound. The sound is not present acoustically, but is radiated by the lights. The light sources are the carriers of the sound. Every light source in the arranged space has a double role, simultaneously being part of the light design and part of the sound design. The sound is modulated on top of the light by means of intensity modulation. The lights flicker, but mostly at a speed that cannot be perceived by the human eye." source text Photos available at: http://www.evdh.net/sound_modulated_light/ More projects by Edwin van der Heide at: http://www.evdh.net/ Update: May 2011 "Sound Modulated Light is an environment of light and sound wherein sound is not present acoustically, but is carried by light. The space consists of a design of multiple lights. Each light bulb has its own soundtrack assig...

Clive Holden - 14 film poems

Clive Holden - 14 film poems - Trains of Winnipeg trains of winnipeg is a four year art project by clive holden. It includes a website, a feature-length film, a book and a cd. mpeg-4 video clips and clive holden's website: http://www.trainsofwinnipeg.com/ "Trains Of Winnipeg started life as a multi-media project in 2001. First in the form of a book and audio-CD, followed by the experimental feature screening in Rotterdam, consisting of 14 ā€˜film poems.ā€™ Winnipeg-based director Clive Holden is a polymath: poet, web-designer and publisher, as well as a filmmaker. All his various talents feed into Trains Of Winnipeg, which includes found footage, home movies and sequences shot on both film and video." source text

Mariele Neudecker - Films in response to Schubert

Mariele Neudecker - Winterreise (A Winter's Journey) A sequence of short films created in response to Schubert's song cycle of the same title. Opera North and Leeds City Art Gallery commissioned Mariele Neudecker to create a visual accompaniment to the music. Mariele is an internationally acclaimed visual artist working in video, sculpture and installation. This is her first collaborative musical project made for live performance. Mariele Neudecker's documentation of the project: http://www.marieleneudecker.co.uk/winterreise.html

Winterreise: A Winter's Journey - Video Accompaniement

Winterreise: A Winter's Journey - Video Accompaniement by Mariele Neudecker, June 2003 Concert Listing screenshot http://www.wyp.org.uk/events/event_details.asp?event_ID=104 Update to blog post: May 2011 "Winterreise: A Winter's Journey 8 June 2003 Courtyard Theatre Through music of exceptional beauty, Schubert's Winterreise takes us inside the mind of a rejected lover who travels from the door of his beloved into a frozen landscape of snow-covered roads, hovering crows and deserted villages. Opera North and Leeds City Art Gallery have commissioned a visual accompaniment to the music from Mariele Neudecker , an internationally acclaimed visual artist working in video, sculpture and installation. This is her first collaborative musical project made for live performance. Music: Franz Schubert Words: Wilhelm MĆ¼ller Bass-baritone: Andrew Foster-Williams Piano: Christopher Gould Film: Mariele Neudecker" Source: http://www.wyp.org.uk/events/event...

Kronos Quartet - Visual Music

Kronos Quartet - Visual Music screenshot from website [2005] The Kronos Quartet's visual music programme involves a concert/performance faturing the music of Reich, Zorn, Penderecki, Herrmann, Nancarrow, Grey, and others. Several artists have created video projections for the pieces. Premiered at UCLA's Royce Theatre, Los Angeles, California in February 2003 Website: http://www.kronosquartet.org/ Photos of the Visual Music Concert Photos of the visual music concert are available online at http://www.drummachine.com/v2/visualmusic.html "Visual Music is an audio-visual spectacular, a continuous, unfolding experience that stretches the boundaries between music and visual art. Music, video projections and lighting are integrated in beautiful and unexpected ways." bleep from perth ticket sales for concert. UPDATE The visual music programme by Kronos Quartet is no longer documented on their website (which is a pity!!). However an interesting review of ...

Dennis Miller - 3D Animations

Dennis Miller - 3D Animations and music composition screenshot Real media video clips and of his animations and more information are available at: http://www.casdn.neu.edu/~dmiller/animation.html UPDATE - MAY 2011 New website by Dennis H. Miller documenting his works online at: http://www.dennismiller.neu.edu/ Here you can preview his Animations, Music and Graphics. Dennis H. Miller - White Noise - 2009 Viewable on the iotacenter youtube channel

John Gerrard - Video Installation

John Gerrard - Video Installation 'Loops, Blips + Flesh' screenshot John Gerrard's Video installation/performance 'Loops, Blips + Flesh' and music composition by Donnacha Dennehy. This work consists of a music score for 6 marimbas by Donnacha Dennehy and a three screen video installation by John Gerrard. Website: http://www.johngerrard.net/index.php?Homepage Excerpt online at youtube