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December 11, 2005
December 8, 2005
ELF Audio/Visual Party
when: Sat 12.10 (9pm-3am)
where: The Blue Space, 5519 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood
price: $12
Required reading for tomorrow's VJs, Paul Spinrad's new The VJ Book reveals the secrets of the men behind the men behind the turntables. These days they use digital video mixers and other high-tech electronics, creating visuals that are a far cry from the '60s psychedelic liquid oil art and the '70s laser light shows that started it all. The book offers instructions for first-timers alongside a history that rightfully aligns the VJ with avant-garde pioneers like Bruce Conner and Stan Brakhage. Multimedia collective Terpsichore Group celebrates the book's release with a multisensory bash that includes live music and visuals by David Last, RD White, Risc, and Terpsichore's own S-Video. (JCF)
December 3, 2005
Zombie Army vs Bush
Most effective, enjoyable - even cathartic - piece of agitprop I've ever seen:
Joe Dante's Homecoming last night, on Showtime's 'Masters of Horror'.
December 2, 2005
IMAG(E) Meeting #3 Tuesday 6pm @ ZML
Third meeting of the Interactive Media Art Group (Extracurricular) Tuesday 12/06/05 at 6pm in ZML.
December 1, 2005
IMMERSION ALERT!
For anyone planning to visit the Ecstasy exhibition:
Since the opening, LAMOCA has not allowed the public to enter Erwin Redl's installation 'Matrix II' (a policy which might be likened to the Louvre requiring people to close their eyes when they're in front of the Mona Lisa). Recently the artist reached a compromise with the museum in which access will be unrestricted on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. So: don't bother going on Thursday, Saturday or Sunday.
About the installation, The Orange County Register says: "The highlight of this show is a large installation called "Matrix II" by Erwin Redl. Light-green LED lights are strung on wires from the ceiling in a darkened room, and the measurements are painstakingly exact. The visitor truly gets the sense of entering an alternate universe - the Matrix - as the lights outline different paths, some straight, some diagonal, some up, some down.This interactive work constantly shifts and redefines itself, offering a completely different panorama depending on the angle and position of the viewer. Combining geometry with art, space, time and perception, it's an achievement of sheer brilliance - and magic."
Dome Alert! [attn Brad]
This joint rocks back
A geodesic dome becomes an instrument in Santa Monica.
... The dome is 60 feet in diameter and about 30 feet tall. Its skin works as a resonating surface for hundreds of strings and harp wires on the interior and exterior. It also serves as a canvas for 360-degree projections that accompany the music, with room for an audience of 350 ...
One of the songs, "Right Down to You," is an unreleased work written by filmmaker David Lynch and vocalist Chrysta Bell. (The Sunday performance will be a fundraiser for the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace, which promotes Transcendental Meditation.)
As all the pieces play, projected graphics travel across the inside of the dome... "We call it animated architecture," said Jody Levy, an o2 Creative Solutions director... The company uses five projectors and an optical blending system cued to the notes played on the instruments...
"The playing physically drives the animation across the entire dome, breathing life into the architectural structure," Levy said. "What we do is based on experiential design, bringing together multimedia designs in nontraditional ways to tell stories and touch the senses."
Said Close: "The visuals really transform the whole space into another environment. All of a sudden you're sitting in a landscape."
By Hook or by Rook
[from today's LA Times]
The World Chess Boxing Organization, founded by the Joker and several business partners, held its first European tournament in Berlin in October. Five hundred fans showed up under dim lights as Bulgarian Tihomir "Tigertad" Titschko became the new champion.
Titschko peers over a chessboard like he's trying to deconstruct the theory of relativity, and he hits like a big man who just met the guy who stole his girlfriend. He defeated Andreas "D" Schneider, a German actor in dark trunks who punched well but succumbed in the ninth round to Titschko's blistering chess attack, described as "the Dragon variation of the Sicilian defense."