VIDEO CIRCUITS

Friday, 2 May 2014

Film Night Documentation

The film night went very well, and a few of the London based artists managed to meet for the first time which was cool, It was very nice to see this kind of work in the real world and I am looking to scale up for the next screening possibly with a live element so watch out for that

Thanks to Ben for putting the event on, Alex, James, Kate, Jerry, Lawrence, Andi and Gary and everyone else who made it down to watch and all the artists who participated, here are some shots the first few are from Alex.

Saturday, 19 April 2014

VIDEO CIRCUITS FILM NIGHT

So Ben from Cinematograph Film Club asked me to do a Video Circuits film night as part of his latest group of screenings, So I have put together a list of artists work that I will be screening on the night, I might bring down a CRT and some video gear for fun as well :3

Time 20:00
Date 27 April
Location The Duke Of Wellington, London N1

here is the facebook event link
cinematographfilmclub.tumblr.com

and here is a little experiment form my diy video synth

Artists:

James Alec Hardy

http://sitbackandrelapse.webs.com/

Alexander Peverett

http://alexanderpeverett.com/

Victoria Keddie & Scott kiernan

http://victoriakeddie.com/ http://www.scottkiernan.com/

Sabrina Ratte

http://sabrinaratte.com/

Marc Bascougnano

http://runningtimeblog.blogspot.com/

Philip Baljeu

http://ruinelectronics.com/

Jennifer Juniper Stratford

http://jjstratford.com/

Pia Van Gelder

http://piavangelder.com/

Lovid
http://www.lovid.org/

Friday, 18 April 2014

Jonathan Gillie

Here is some interesting video collage work from Jonathan Gillie using Tachyons+ gear to generate the video effects and then arranged in after effects

http://jonathangillieportfolio.tumblr.com/
http://jongillie.tumblr.com/

Sunday, 13 April 2014

Kit Young

Very weird awesome feedback work here from Kit Young

Video Circuit Bending Tutorial by Lush Projects

Very nice video circuit bending tutorial by Lush Projects
http://lushprojects.com/blog/2014/04/approach-to-video-circuit-bending/

Check his work here

Monday, 7 April 2014

Joy to the World by William Laziza (1994)

Recovered by the XFR STN project, Joy to the World is Visual Music designed for ambient presentation. Joy to the World combines, optical image processing, Amiga graphics and recursive video imagery with synthesized sound. What is unique about this piece is that the audio is used to create the visuals is also the sound track. This work was created at the Micro Museum.

https://archive.org/details/XFR_2013-08-11_1A_01

Saturday, 5 April 2014

Magnetic Tape

Magnetic Tape is interesting to me. On reels or in cassettes each recording (or potential recording) is like a little curly drawing that pulls the sound through space, Only one position on the tape is read and so the linear nature of the tape allows the signal to vary the output is attached to over time. I messed around with wire recorders along time ago because I liked the fact that the sound is concentrated into a tiny line like space with the heaviness of the mark being replaced by the amplitude of the waveforms encoded as magnetic information. Here are some of my diy wall mounted ones, winding the pickup heads was a long day.

I also like Nam June Paik’s 1963 work Random Access allot, tape is attached to the wall as a drawing with the playback head made available as a mobile stylus so you can retrace his steps and listen to the recordings using the same gestures he used to stick them down. A kind of playable graphical notation

A good friend Dale has gone way further with visual tape based work and kindly sent me some photos of slightly insane pieces he is putting together at the moment. He selects tape based on it's visual tonality and creates geometric slightly illusory patterns building a second information set encoded in the the recording medium. I don't know if Dale does, but I find these relate to visual music and graphic notation practices too. Ill probably try to convince him at his art show at here in london on the 10th of April at six, come if you want to hang out we will probably drink beer after too.