I am performing on Thursday the 14th at DIY space for London.
Edge of Frame very kindly asked me to play. There will also be a fantastic selection of films by other artists including some of my favourite people operating in the world of experimental electronic image making.
Alexander Peverett and I will be looking after a Video Synthesis room at Brighton Modular Meet this weekend. Come down to chat about video synthesis and our strange love for CRT tubes :) there will be at least 6 sony PVMs on display! along with a few systems and unusual bits of video gear. I am super excited that Nitin AKA Bradford Bahamas will be bringing his incredible playable CRT rig.
brightonmodularmeet.co.uk
Invited to be part of the 2016 International Conference on Live Interfaces (http://www.liveinterfaces.org/) at the University of Sussex, this years Brighton Modular Meet takes place in the newly renovated Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (formerly the Gardner Arts Centre). We will be taking over a number of rooms in this Grade 2 listed building designed by Sir Basil Spence.
In addition to a large open access space where you can set up your synth and mingle with others, this year we will have a room for manufacturers and shops, a space for talks and live performances, and a video synthesis room.
So I am doing a talk at Raven Row as part of their very lovely exhibition of Steina & Woody Vasulka's work, will be demoing some of the techniques they used to make their work. Hopfully it will be interesting.
"Chris King: Video Circuits Thursday 2 June, 6.30pm
Artist Chris King leads a live demonstration of early media art and video synthesis technologies, working with a selection of different techniques used by the Vasulkas and other video artists during the 1970s and 80s.Chris King: Video Circuits Thursday 2 June, 6.30pm
Artist Chris King leads a live demonstration of early media art and video synthesis technologies, working with a selection of different techniques used by the Vasulkas and other video artists during the 1970s and 80s." http://www.ravenrow.org/events/chris_king_video_circuits/
I will be giving a talk on some research I have been doing into early British video synthesis and electronic video work at this years Seeing Sound. I will also be screening some work from some contemporary Video Circuits Regulars as part of the conference. www.seeingsound.co.uk Sign up here!
Dan Bucciano recently posted this fantastic clip to the discussion group so I thought I would share. It's some lovley black and white feedback processed with a color solarizer prototype he designed around 20 years ago.
An abstract work of visual music, “Synapse” is a stylized interpretation of the inner senses as they are lifted from a state of despondency to find temporary asylum in a delirious
moment of lucidity. This mindscape takes us on a ride through the turbulence of the psyche using vintage real-time 3D graphics and electronic synthesis technology.
The base graphics were created at Fake Space Labs during an Artist-in-Residency (1991-92) and repurposed for this work in 2003.
Video and Music: Christian Greuel A/D Transfer: Aaron Ross (2003) Thanks to: Mark Bolas and Eric Gullichsen
Graphics created at: Fake Space Labs (1992) Video processed at: California Institute of the Arts (1992) Music created at: California Institute of the Arts (1991)
Software: Sense8 WorldToolKit 1.0, AutoCAD (3D models), ColoRIX (2D textures) Hardware: i386 PC (4MB RAM), DS1 DVI video card, CRT display, 3/4" video tape and camera Video Processing Hardware: Hearne/EAB Videolab, Fairlight CVI Audio: Roland SH-5 analog synthesizer, Ampex 456 4-track 1/4" analog tape"
I got to see Sabrina and Roger's amazing performance at the BFI on the 13th, here are some awful photos of Sabrina's beautiful imagery and a video Rosa took of their fantastic performance at Sonic Acts 2015 so you can also hear the incredible sounds too, even if it is a different set.
A recent article on Paleofuture brought to my attention the work of C.E. Burnett an engineer at RCA's research lab during the 1930s. This must be a very early example of cathode ray tubes being used for pattern generation and certainly predates many more well known media art pioneers. I wonder if he ever spoke to Ben F. Laposky another early pioneer in a related technique.
Here is a device I built for a fellow artist, there are a few shots of its slowly disrupting a shot of a grid to give you an idea off the effects it can produce.
So the Video Workshop went really well, we are planning to do more but I also have a bunch of other related projects going on at the moment, so if you want to host one send me an email and I am sure we could work something out. I currently have a diy sync-gen on the workbench and have been generating a lot of footage, theres nothing like meeting a bunch of people and getting them enthusiastic about video art to scare you into finishing some of your own work. Thanks to all who were involved in putting the workshop on including Encounters, Seeing Sound, Arnolfini and Bath Spa University.
oh yeah and one of the attendees wrote us a very nice review, which I think is a really kind thing I should do more often when I go to talks. http://mydylarama.org.uk/spip.php?article252
Here are two shots of Alex's video synthesis lesson.
Here are pics of the analogue video workshop packs each attendee will be getting tomorrow! http://encounters-festival.org.uk/news/events/analog-video-workshop/
This is a blog for and about electronic video artists & related information. ...................................................... All work is copyright to the respective artists. I do not directly upload content, want me to take a link down, or contribute? just ask! ...................................................... Sometimes I post my own experiments. My videos are created without the aid of desktop computers (for image generation) utilising many different techniques informed by the video art of the 1970/80s and broadcast technologies related to that time. I am also interested in early drawn sound and visual music pioneers, media archaeology, abstract film, and graphic scores etc .
