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Immersion 7 Feb 2008 Wrap-up
My first thought after (and during) this past Immersion at The Flea Pit, London – Where did all you people come from?! People were queued up in the hallway leading to the performance wing of The Pit for almost the entire night. It got so crowded that I had to stop videoing the event, people…
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Emotional Contagion
A project I’ve done some work for is having an event this week at the Dana Centre, London: Date: Wednesday, 13th February, 19:00 – 20.30 Event: Dana Center, Science Museum, London Artist: Tina Gonsalves http://www.tinagonsalves.com Are emotions infectious? Why can one person make a previously upbeat group feel glum? How does empathy work? Experience emotional…
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Study: Negative Space
I’ve been a bit obsessed with [tag]John Maeda[/tag]’s book, Maeda@Media. It’s a very visual journey through his works and artistic process. I find his work very minimalist, which is fitting for a man who wrote a book called “Simplicity.” Not only is it minimalist, but essential, in many ways – stripped to the core. At…
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2008 February 7th – Immersion
Another Immersion, and some excellent repeat performances as well as new faces manning the visuals (for us, anyway). Starting around 7pm and lasting until 11:30pm, on 7 February 2008 Spencer Mash (SS_R) & PixelPusher present a night of soundscapes, experimental music, and visuals as part of the ever-popular, on-going Immersion series at The Flea-Pit, London…
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Interactive Media Class
I’ve been spending most of my waking hours teaching, recently, which is why you haven’t seen any upcoming shows on this site, or much more on the blog. Usually, I like to pull a Clark Kent and keep my day-job and secret pixelist identity separate, but just this one single time I’ll allow my worlds…
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video – Immersion 6 Dec 2007 Set 2 with 0 > 1
Energetic and and intense set from PixelPusher (visuals) and 0 > 1 (sound). Dang it, there was such good bass in the room when I recorded this track, but my camera microphone didn’t pick up any of it. To get the full experience, get out a large metallic drum and give it a good whack…
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video – Immersion 6 Dec 2007 Set 1 with Orfeus 9 and Transphormetic
Another great night. Transphormetic and myself trading off visuals and mixing it up for the night to a line-up of really interesting sounds and more-than-danceable music. Of course, this being London, the crowd sat in polite reverence and did not spontaneously erupt into a fit of throwing shapes and hopping around like some other cities…
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livepainter free software
I’ve been playing with this excellent program originally done by Josh Nimoy for an installation with GRL (Graffiti Research Labs). It’s a chunky, colorful, NYC-graffiti-style painting tool that works cross-platform and is open source. I’d been kicking around this idea in my head for awhile about creating a live performance painting tool, which isn’t exactly…
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Piksel 2007
Don’t miss the Piksel live webcast of performances and talks. “Piksel is a festival and community for artists and developers working with Free/Libre and Open Source audiovisual software, hardware and art.” There are a few interesting speakers, from Reactivision to London Openlab’s very own Robert Atwood with his opensource Jackbytes software for analyzing audio in…