Scanner on audio and D-Fuse on visual. Enjoy.
Electronic Tattoo
October 8, 2007Scanner recently returned from a trip to the Netherlands and several projects with Philips Design. This is one such example of the work.
Tattoos and physical mutilation are amongst the oldest forms of personal expression and identity. Subcultures have used tattoos as a form of self representation; a visual language communicating personality and status. Philips Design examined the growing trend of extreme body adornment like tattoos, piercing, implants and scarring.
The Electronics Tattoo film expresses the visual power of sensitive technology applied to the human body. The film subtly leads the viewer through the simultaneous emotional and aesthetic transformations between two lovers.
liquid space with Diesel
July 6, 2007Diesel recently presented their Liquid Space fashion show in Florence, Italy. It featured amazing projections that looked almost holographic, moving up and down the catwalk.
A translucid screen along one of the sides of the runway, allowed the audience to see the models and the floating graphics from both sides. Diesel Creative Director, Wilbert Das, teamed up with Danish based video technology studio, Vizoo and Barcelona based mograph studio Dvein to put together this one of a kind show.
Check out some video from the event:
Thanks to Accent Feed.
Brian Eno’s 77 million paintings
July 5, 2007The North American premiere of 77 Million Paintings was presented by San Francisco’s Long Now Foundation, an art collective established to pursue projects promoting a “slower and better” worldview. The show is one of Eno’s “generative” works. He loads his images and sounds onto a computer, which plays them back randomly as an infinite set of permutations – hence the title.
The audio-visual installation, 77 Million Paintings, has been shown in various forms in Venice, Tokyo and London. The San Francisco installation is the largest yet.
Personally I hope this comes back to the UK as it’s something I am very interested in seeing and developing my systems close to it for performance. It is reassuring to know there is an audience for this type of work, of this size.
There is a video of this if you scroll down into this entry.
unitedvisualartists
July 3, 2007
“A luminous interactive installation has transformed the V&A’s John Madejski Garden this winter. Volume is a sculpture of light and sound, an array of light columns positioned dramatically in the centre of the garden.”
the light surgeons.
June 15, 2007Going through the old bookmarks of my PC HD and came across these; some excellent AV work by the Light Surgeons. Have yet to catch them live myself, but only heard good things. Check out these 4 videos (click for for videos at the bottom) Enjoy.
THUMBNAIL EXPRESS
latest Legoman install. 3Destruct
June 15, 2007One to watch is Legoman. Love his VJ/graphics styles and as the video shows he’s really innovative with the installs. These are some pictures from the “Biennale d’art contemporain” from Louvain la Neuve in Belgium (Thomas Vaquié and Jérémie Peeters also helped with this setup)
light sculpture video.
June 15, 2007Very cool. Tron like style. A lot of work went into this. Crustea, based in Brighton I do believe recently installed this.
Check out the video
polar clock.
June 12, 2007Very simple, very nice. Would be wicked as a screensaver. And you know what. It is
MANTIS 002. 9th June 2007
June 11, 2007MANTIS broadcast 9th June 2007 18:00GMT on Brap.FM
Just DVNT on hosting duties this around, but to make up for it we had 2 showcase mixes. Jnr Hacksaw and Zilla. Excellent feedback received if I do sound like a tool on the mike. Massive props to all the listeners, and of course the showcase heavyweights.
Next month we have Si Begg. That’s on the 14th, same time 15:00GMT
Full tracklistings, archive and podcast here.
tetris gameshow. ok…
June 11, 2007Discovered earlier today. Looks like a right laugh. Clearly they are obsessed, or putting something in the water. Either way those costumes are damn sexy. haha.
Enjoy.
MANTIS 001.1. 24th May 2007.
June 11, 2007MANTIS broadcast 24th May 2007 18:00GMT on Brap.FM
An unofficial broadcast for us as it was a stand-in show for Katanga. So no showcase this time, just DVNT and Yukka presenting some fresh beats.
Markomen, Cursor Miner, ScanOne, Andy Page, Tipper, Caspa, the Art of Noise and a few other treats.
Full tracklisting, archive and podcast available, just click here.
MANTIS 001. 12th May 2007.
June 11, 2007MANTIS
The first MANTIS broadcast on Brap.FM, featuring a showcase mix from Combat Recordings main man, Stormfield. A wide range of tastes, genres and styles on offer.
Full tracklistings from Stormfield, DVNT and Yukka avaliable, as well as the archive and podcast.
Click here
12th May 2007 15:00GMT on www.brap.fm
post number 1. an introduction of sorts.
June 11, 2007It’s Monday. It’s muggy but grey and overcast. And I feel as fresh as I always do at this time of the week.
Been meaning to get myself a proper blog for a while. If only to increase my internet ego and have yet another place to let my random outbursts of dribble I don’t want my missus to bear witness to.
Primary use for this blog joint thang is to present the cool, subjective of course, things I come across in my day to day work avoiding forum whoring. I lose track of some of the more interesting stuff I find. Get interrupted with having to do my actual job.
Yea. You all know how it is.
Anyways. Let’s see how this thing develops.
Check out myspace.com/borstal and myspace.com/mantisradio for more on me and my activities in the real world. Whatever the hell that is these days.
MAKEMASSAIR 
breakfast. by Jan Svankmajer
June 20, 2007I love Svankmajer’s work. Ever since I randomly picked up Alice about 4 years ago. His version of Faust is very good as well. Should really look to getting myself some DVDs of these.
I think that this piece has a clear message, with a superb delivery. Check out Alice; best version of Lewis Carroll’s novel I’ve seen adapted.
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