New Wave Theater

some amazing if incidental effects, mixing and weirdness from New Wave Theater, thanks to John for passing this my way!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Wave_Theatre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ivers
http://adhoc.fm/post/new-wave-theatre/
http://night_flight1.tripod.com/newwavetheatre.html

Tele Visions Project

http://televisionsproject.org

great line-up! 

"Commemorate the end of TV with Tele Visions, a series of live and broadcast events interrogating the medium of television on its death bed.

Devised, curated and produced to mark the occasion of the analog switch off around Australia, Tele Visions introduces audiences to the works of more than 100 artists working in the televisual space.

You can tune in live via the Tele Visions website or catch it on the analog broadcast if you live nearby. Box Set will be running 24hrs a day until midnight this Wednesday the 27th, from then on the Tele Visions channel begins a five day long continuous broadcast of artworks made for TV. Box Set is one of five live works commissioned by Tele Visions. Other artists include Lara Thoms, WRONG SOLO, Joel Stern and Pia van Gelder.

The entire broadcast program is now online with more than 120 works from 100 artists scheduled up to the minute each day. You can peruse the program from the Tele Visions website or download the TV Guide which also features short critical essays from Doug Anderson (SMH TV reviewer for 40 years), Sherry Miller Hocking (Experimental Televison Centre) and John Gillies (Video Artist and academic COFA). Pick up a limited edition printed (in glorious pink!) TV Guide at live events at both Carriageworks and Verge Gallery.
Tele Visions (28 November – 3 December 2013) is a project devised, directed and produced by Alex White and Emma Ramsay. Presented by Performance Space as part of the YOU’RE HISTORY, a program celebrating 30 years of Performance Space."

Superlative TV

Send these guys something, theme apathy, if you can be bothered ;)

http://superlativetv.com/

Synthetic Divinity

Go check out Tory Starbuck's Vimeo here for more on this

"Synthetic Divinity was a St. Louis cable television show in 1994-1996. It was abstract, surreal, science fiction video art created by Tory, Enero, and Bruce Wulff. Sasha Feline was in part of this. Other friends and members of neXtrAdio helped and the soundtrack was always created by neXtrAdio. The muzik was usually from the live improvisations that took place on Tory's KDHX radio show, Nocturnal Designs. Doc Mabuse, Tom Sutter, Perry Emge were in the band and helped with filming, acting and ideas."

E.S.P. TV - Ende Tymes Festival 2013

http://unartignyc.com
http://www.facebook.com/UnartigOfficial

Videofreex!

So should have posted about this one along time ago

http://videofreexfilm.com/
https://vimeo.com/user782050

“Here Come the Videofreex!”is a documentary in progress which tells the story of the most radical video collective of the 1960’s and 70’s. It is the quirky tale of ten people’s optimism and creativity, and their vision of what television could have become at a time when the three big networks ruled the TV airwaves.

E.S.P. TV presents: Live From The Control Room Pt. 2

Special guests:
Thomas Dexter (http://thomasdexter.com/)
G Lucas Crane (http://nonhorse.com/Bio.html)
Tristan Shepherd

$7 (proceeds go to the artists)

Purchase at door or pre-order from MAD website at:http://www.madmuseum.org/events/live-control-room-0
Marking the "move-in" for E.S.P. TV at MAD, Live From the Control Room repurposes MAD’s Open Studios into the E.S.P. TV Lab. Hosting a variety of local artists and performers who work with analog systems, as well as broadcast innovators and other voices in the field, Live From the Control Room forms a happening-like environment for discussion, performance, and communal production of experimental broadcast television.

"Live From The Control Room Pt. 2" marks the second in a 2-part series E.S.P TV's recency at the Museum of Art and Design from Feb - May 2013. For more information on this and other events or to pre-order tickets, please consult the calendar on the Museum of Art and Design website at:http://www.madmuseum.org/series/esp-tv

The Nocturnal Emissions' "Bleeding Images" + "The Foetal Grave of Progress"

John of  of now defunct but fantastic blog Destructural Video has organised a screening showing two 1980's videos from the sound art project Nocturnal Emissions who as well as being involved in industrial/electronic music in the eighties were also early pioneers in scratch video.

Thursday, 14 February 2013, Wharf Chambers Ground Floor, 23 - 25 Wharf Street, LS2 7EQ Leeds

http://www.facebook.com/events/407157019370475/ video

"Limerent Objects is proud to present a Sterile Records double bill screening of:

BLEEDING IMAGES (1982, 46 minutes, VHS)
THE FOETAL GRAVE OF PROGRESS (1984, 34 minutes, VHS)

Perhaps THE quintessential audiovisual statements of the post-industrial music scene. Provocative in content, prescient in style, these medium-length videos captured the subversive interests and activities of the pioneering sound art project The Nocturnal Emissions against a contextual backdrop of the UK between 1981 and 1984; a time rife with mass unemployment, civil unrest, media hysteria, political indifference, terrorism and war overseas. Burroughsian cut-ups reveal subliminal imagery hidden in exploitative mainstream broadcasting; shocking images of real-life violence against living beings are critically employed to expose our complacency in everyday cruelty; the thunderous soundscapes and ritual performances of The Nocturnal Emissions awaken the viewer's senses to our undermining culture controlled by fear and repression...

Rarely viewed since their initial home video releases and screenings at the Tate and ICA in the UK as a result of the imposing 1984 Video Recordings Act, both videos remain impressive today as early influential examples of the extended music video and key moments of the British independent video art movement. Countless artists and broadcasters have emulated or outright stolen the ambitions, aesthetics and techniques used in the videos of The Nocturnal Emissions, either directly or through watered-down copies - few however can match the tremendous power of the original works which are long overdue public and critical reassessment in these increasingly pertinent times.

Free entry with small donations welcomed. Doors open at 7:30. A short talk and introduction by the organiser will precede the first video at 8pm - second video will be shown after 9pm. Please be aware that these videos contains flashing images and some footage that may disturb those of a sensitive disposition.

Special thanks to Nigel Ayers/Earthly Delights and Piitu Lintunen for making this event possible.

*Wharf Chambers Co-operative Club is a members’ club, and you need to be a member, or a guest of a member, in order to attend. To join, please visit wharfchambers.org. Membership costs £1 and requires a minimum of 48 hours to take effect.*"

http://www.earthlydelights.co.uk/
http://nocturnalemissions.bandcamp.com/
http://www.nigelayers.com/

E.S.P. TV Video Art Machine By Logan

Logan (Tachyons+) has made this cool modified Radio Shack video processor in aid of ESP.TVs Kickstarter take a look http://www.ebay.com/itm/150980946222?ssPageName=STRK%3AMESELX%3AIT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

http://tachyonsplus.tumblr.com/
http://www.esptvnyc.com/
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1519318218/esp-tv-season-3

The Gravy Sessions XII

Gary and I performed a Live session for the guys at The Gravy who are all super nice. The Gravy sessions are recorded with live audio and video mixing which is really nice thing to be part of, hats off to Superlative TV who provided most of the excellent visuals and filmed our session. I am also continually amazed how well Gary can improvise while I am playing badly tuned chords on my modular synthesizer. He steers our improvised set the right side of melodic. I am processing Gary's footage while we both play the audio track, It is a very poorly prepared ramshackle performance but there are moments I think sound and video look interesting.

our set


and here is the whole thing


Featuring a guest mix of psychedelic soul by The McCartneys (Johnny Debt), video by Ella McCartney.
Also Chris & Gary performing live improvised audio visual

Jaap drupsteen

Thanks to Lars of LZX for turning me on to Jaap Drupsteen's work
there are some really well structured effects, animations and some interesting video effects related projects.
http://cargocollective.com/jaapdrupsteen
   

DIY Micro Video Transmitter Workshop

on the 17th of this fine month I attended a DIY micro video transmitter workshop hosted by Ryan Jordan and run by Kyle Evans of Cracked Ray Tube, The design was based on one produced by Tetsuo Kogawa and continually developed as part of his practice. Kyle also uses this circuit in his work to great effect to derive perfectly imperfect images and abstract raw colour video signal in to new jagged forms. Everyone at the workshop got to make and try a transmitter and we even used two at once. The design is really simple and purposefully unstable to allow artistic exploitation of it's properties.

anyone with limited soldering skills could produce one of these devices easily and it was great fun tuning it in and watching the results. The construction is also beautifully simple using the copper coated PCB material a ground plane and attaching 'tags' to the surface using more PCB material make construction fast simple and relatively interference free. If you can't get to a workshop run by Kyle (which I would recommend due to the fun and social aspect and great documentation alone) then don't fret as the low parts count  make this easy to source and build on your own. 

I was sad not to be able to stay for the live performance by Kyle,  Ryan and a host of others but alas I was halfway though moving house :<

what follow are some bad phone pics 

Peckham Artist Moving Image

I have some work on show at sassoon with my good friends Lucy and Taki as part of
Peckham Artist Moving Image Festival, well that's if we can get the gallery space ready in time! :>

http://www.pami.org.uk/post/30405403096/no-scrubs-sassoon-gallery-more-chris-king

http://jesusbuiltmyhotrod.tumblr.com/

http://wordsmarter.tumblr.com/

E.S.P TV

http://www.esptvnyc.com/
E.S.P. TV is a nomadic showcase of primarily NYC-based experimental music, video art and performance formed out of Louis V E.S.P. and produced for Manhattan Neighborhood Network television. In the summer of 2012, E.S.P. TV will open a new space for production of the show, development of the E.S.P. LAB project, and a regular schedule of performances, screenings and special events.

Tapings of E.S.P. TV are in front of an audience with live green-screening, signal manipulation and analog video mixing. The entire night is recorded to VHS and edited into half hour episodes for airing on cable TV in New York City. After airing, the episodes are posted online at www.esptvnyc.com for later viewing.

Artists who have appeared on E.S.P. TV include: Xeno and Oaklander, Jandek, Mazing Vids, Innergaze, MV Carbon, C Spencer Yeh, Shana Moulton, Bradley Eros, Ken Jacobs, Joshua Churchill and Paul Clipson, Further Reductions, Regal Degal, Martha Colburn, Forma, YOU., Rachel Mason, Kate Gilmore, Amanda Long and many more. Shows have been taped in various locations including The Schoolhouse, 285 Kent and Roulette (Brooklyn, NY), Liminal Space (Oakland), Queens Nails Projects (San Francisco), Millennium Film Workshop (New York City) as a part of INDEX Festival, and General Public (Berlin).

 

Experimental Half Hour In Croatia!

http://experimentalhalfhour.com/
http://twitter.com/exphalfhour
these guys are really amazing on tour in Europe right now!

Tape Scape Photos

Things I should have posted along time ago but am only now getting around to post 7

In this post I talked about Tape Scape Catford a temporary project space based in an old blockbuster video rentals shop here are some photos from my visit

Old shots of Lucky PDF karaoke with Taki and Lucy

I helped out my friends Taki and Lucy in creating a live video effects karaoke piece as a small part of Lucky PDF Live at Frieze art fair. I just provided the live equipment set up and they did all the hard work as I was out of the country during most of the show, but I did get a chance to snap a few shots of the set up before I went.

also Lucky PDF have been nominated for this art prize so if you are in the mood please vote for them as they are hard working and all round nice guys

Moving Image Arts London

A peer to peer moving image artist meet-up-group for the discussion, development and experimentation of the moving image. All welcome, if you have work you want to show even better. Friendly atmosphere to talk about work finished or not, Swap skills, equipment, opportunities, links and arrange exhibitions.

http://movingimageartslondon.blogspot.com/

Videoheads

Here is an awesome website and youtube channel for Videoheads a very early (and still somewhat active) video arts collective

"Videoheads began its activities in London, 1967 at the Arts Lab, working with some equipment donated to us by The Beatles. This cumbersome and unreliable equipment was replaced in 1968 when we staged a huge happening at the Albert Hall known as The Alchemical Wedding. Money from that event was used to create a studio and mobile equipment dedicated to the documentation of alternative artistic activities which "normal" TV would not bother with. We were the TV of the alternative society.

In the intervening 40 years we have always maintained a free, open studio, archive and showplace dedicated to what we call "Videoculture"

After 20 years of consulting and working with UNESCO in Paris, the collection and workshop have been re-united in our new workspace in Amsterdam"

here are some awesome videos 

thanks to Diamond Variations for bringing these guys to my attention  :)

Ben Baker-Smith Interview

Ben Baker-Smith who I have posted about before (Vaudeo Signal) has just done an interview on a French public access TV show called L’Oeil De Links. He also very kindly name drops Video Circuits at the end ! big thanks Ben :) be sure to check out his fantastic projects on his site including the quite insane http://infiniteglitch.com/