Visual Research

The Set Up
one of the main points in exploring all theses new programs in the second year, was to get a great understand in how to make my own live show. below are two of the prime examples of live cinema set ups that have inspired me.

- two projector screens at the back
- one large transparent  projected screen at the front. This makes it possible to layer the film and create a 3D environment.




Pfadfinderei 


Pfadfinderei is a company based in berlin. They are one of the best examples of multimedia video work. This manly comes from there use of graphics, and the there ability to layer film. exploring attributes such as texture and movement.







Kate Simko live A/V Show 
after spending so much time exploring code based/ generative realtime graphics. It occurred to me that i had hardly used film. Kate simko's live A/V show really rang some bells in my head. There are a load of interesting things to explore in these videos. First is her set up. she uses a combination of ablation live(music production program) and jitter to control the live visuals. This is something i have already seen, but i deffently need to look deeper into this over summer. The second is the layering of film in the show, to make an almost double exposure effect. This can be seen in the Rex club video.








Reza (code based visuals)
Reza is one of the best examples i have found in the area of code based visuals. Both of these videos are totally made in processing.







Mapping Festval




Manuel chantre - Mapping Festival Profile from mappingfestival on Vimeo.



Camille Scherrer - Mapping Festival Profile from mappingfestival on Vimeo.

Kit Webster - Mapping Festival Profile from mappingfestival on Vimeo.

AntiVJ


AntiVJ presents: ENGHIEN from AntiVJ / Joanie on Vimeo.


3DESTRUCT / Scopitone 2011 from Yannick Jacquet (Legoman) on Vimeo.


 Dziga Vertov, Walter Ruttmann

 I think it always important to get influence from the past, and for me this has always been major a part of me developing ideas. The old avant guard have interested me a lot over the last though years. Because they where the people to develop the first ideas behind the structure visual image. Before sound integrated in to film Dziga Vertov was exploring how different methods of montage could examine the world around us.

  Dziga Vertov (Freed from the boundaries of time and space, I coordinate any and all points of the universe, wherever I want them to be. My way leads to the creation of a fresh perception of the world. Thus I explain in a new way the world unknown to you.)

 Dziga Vertov biggest movie was Movie was Man with a Movie Camera released in 1929. The film examines through different film techniques one day in a busy Russian city.
 After studying Vertov I was introduced to another film maker called Walter Ruttmann, who is just as interesting as Vertov. I think this article below really sums it up nicely.

"Premiered in 1921, Ruttmann’s «Opus 1» is the first abstract or «absolute» work in film history. Instead of containing depictions of reality, it consists entirely of the colors and shapes already formulated in Ruttmann’s «Painting With Light» manifesto. In 1919, he writes that, after nearly a decade, he finally «masters the technical difficulties» struggled with as early as 1913 while executing his formulated idea. He also writes that one has to «work with film as though using a paintbrush and paint». Up to protecting his work by a patent in 1920, this artistically-motivated necessity born of new technical means leads to Ruttmann producing abstract and painterly image sequences in his films. Following the neglected «Opus 1» come three other purely abstract films. These too, are painstakingly colored by hand. That each film has an original score composed especially for its production highlights another difference to the absolute films of Hans Richter or Oskar Fischinger, which transposed in images music that already existed."
[http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/opus1/video/1/]

Looking back in time we can clearly see, that the ideas that we think may be new and exciting now, where just the same back in 1921. But the technological advances mean we have new tools to express theses ideas, and  enable us to bring are work to the audience in a much more powerful way.



 Great interveiw with Mia Makela about the theory behind live cinema>> (http://cont3xt.net/blog/?p=541) 
Suonombra from mia makela on Vimeo.

 David Szauder


pixelnoizz-serpendity from pixel noizz on Vimeo.



light painting from pixel noizz on Vimeo.


 Herman Kolgen
ARECOGNIZED FOR HIS MULTIMEDIA CREATIONS FOR OVER TWENTY YEARS, HERMAN KOLGEN IS A MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARTIST WHO LIVES AND WORKS IN MONTREAL. A TRUE AUDIOCINETIC SCULPTOR, HE DRAWS HIS PRIMARY MATERIAL FROM THE INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOUND AND IMAGE. KOLGEN WORKS TO CREATE OBJECTS THAT ASSUME THE FORM OF INSTALLATIONS, VIDEO AND FILM WORKS, PERFORMANCES AND SOUND SCULPTURES. CONSTANTLY EXPLORING, HE WORKS AT THE JUNCTURES OF DIFFERENT MEDIA, AS WELL AS ELABORATING A NEW TECHNICAL LANGUAGE AND SINGULAR AESTHETIC.



[http://www.kolgen.net/pages/profil]



Herman Kolgen / Electrovisiones 2011 from Circuito Electrovisiones on Vimeo.

INJECT EXTRACT 03 from Herman Kolgen on Vimeo.

L.E.V Festval (laboratory of experimental visual)

When trying to understand more about the subject of live cinema, and how to start tackiling my own work. I came across a very interesting site called L.E.V. This is a festval held every year in spain, where they showcase the most cutting edge visual and sound artists from around the world. The site its self is very helpful. There is a dedicated page for each artist, with examples of there work. one of the first artists i came across was a woman by the name of Alba G. Corral. Alba creates her work by using processing code. I am a massive fan of her work.


Melophase - The Space in Between from Alba G. Corral on Vimeo.

The Space In Between Live - CaixaForum Madrid (2) from Alba G. Corral on Vimeo.
The second major influence I found from L.E.V was Transforma & Yro. A team of visual artists who instead of creating there work through software, covert the stage into a laboratory of pure experimentation. They use a series of objects, light boxes, liquids, interactive sculptures and cameras to make an extraordinary live show. I really love this style of visual making, and its defiantly an area i would like to experiment with in the future. I have already start to look into this area a little with my test lad footage which can be found in my work. Which i have made some of my most interesting visuals.
L.E.V. 2011 | Transforma & YRO "Asynthome" from LEVFestival on Vimeo.
Alex Posada the particle one of the last artists I won't to talk about from L.E.V is Alex Posada. who again instead of using software to create his live show, works with in the method of sculpture to create his environment

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Interview at Mapping Festival 2010 from Alex Posada on Vimeo.

Richie Hawtin Warehouse project 2009 (Ali Demirel)
 If there is a more influential night in my life, it would be this one in 2009. With the amazing sound of Richie Hawtin, and magical visuals of Ali Demirel. I believe this is just as equally a form of live cinema.


The Light Surgeons
The light Surgeons where probably one of the first live cinema artists, that I ever came across back when I was in college. They are a collection of multi media artists based in London. They don't focus entirely on generating shapes, instead they are more focused on stitching film together in there live shows. There shows take on a very documentary style, analizing cities, culture and the people within them cultures. The light surgeons will alway be a massive influence in my idea development. mainly because they still have an element of film involved in there shows, but use it in a fresh format & prospective.



LDN-REDUX from THE LIGHT SURGEONS on Vimeo.

True Fictions - Live Performance Trailer from THE LIGHT SURGEONS on Vimeo.