In case you didn't know, pixelpusher (evan.raskob) is a live video performance artist, or "pixelist" based in London, UK. Click the Info button above for hiring and contact info.
Immersion

Glitchnight and Immersion Recap

by pixelpusher on Friday 13 February 2009
[Blog]

Uploaded by dr.mo on 13 Feb 09, 12.16AM GMT.

Dr. Mo has some great photos of yesterday’s ImmersionI have a few too. Lukas Vojir has some video of his and Dialog’s set as well.

Glitchnight added some photos of Glitchnight at Vibe Bar.

Thanks to all who attended both!  The performances were all top notch.  I love how people are going out of their way to create short, experimental pieces for Immersion nights.  To get up on my soapbox, I think its important that there are nights like this in London, where the emphasis is less on getting your face off into the wee hours at some loud club, or on producing a piece of absolute visual perfection on a massive stage, and more on producing some short but ambitious performances in front of an audience who is very willing to appreciate them, in a venue like The Flea Pit where you can enjoy some good ales and not freeze your bottom quarters off in a dodgy squat party while trying to dodge projectile projectors dropping from the ceilings above because the duct tape holding them up has come unstuck.

Not that I don’t love a good squat party, or that I haven’t played my share, but at some point in this business you want to feel a bit more physically safe and dry while performing with electronics, and also appreciated as an artist doing something legitimate and interesting.  The chance to do something risky, visually and technically, in a safe space lets you fail gracefully and, most importantly, interestingly.

Thanks to all who have been a big part of our great successes and graceful failures over the past few years!

2 Comments Digg del.icio.us

Immersion 12 Feb 2009

by pixelpusher on Monday 2 February 2009
[Past Performances, Performances]

Immersion 12 Feb 2009 Flyer

Immersion 12 Feb 2009 Flyer

Happy 2009! It’s time for the first Immersion of 2009 - your favourite bi-monthly audio/visual event - and we have a great line-up this month.  Starting at 7:00pm and lasting until 11:30pm, on Thurs 12 February 2009 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, Columbia Rd., Hackney, London E2. [schedule]

Facebook event here

Immersion is a free-entry experimental music/visuals/sound-art event featuring a live audio-visual soundtrack of electronic atmospheres, noisescapes, pulses/rhythms and tones/drones.

Read on for line-up and more

One Comment Digg del.icio.us

Immersion 2008 4 December

by pixelpusher on Saturday 29 November 2008
[Past Performances, Performances]

Immersion Flyer 2008 4 December


Experimental electronics, noise, tones/drones and pulses/rhythms, partnered by cutting edge projected art visuals - all processed live. At The Flea Pit, Columbia Rd, Hackney, London, E2 7RG.

Artists featured:


Sound:
ABKomm // Alnagak // Infinite Scale // Removal Company // Suero // Zainetica
(details at http://www.immersion.100freemb.com/immersionclub/event.html)


Visuals:

Dr. Mo
Veteran VJ and master of visual atmosphere.
http://www.morishuz.com/

Mowgli
Using 100% self generated content Mowgli combines CGI animation with
filmed clips, sound reactive and generative visuals creating an eclectic
tapestry of visual delights.
http://mowgli.tv

VJ Neon
Intense cut-and-paste visuals.
http://neon.visuals.pl

Rob Munro
Rob Munro is an audiovisual artist working visuals with PD and processing for 4 years. Creating textural mashups of any video content he can get his hands on. He uses all open source software in his work.
http://www.robmunro.net

Fat Butcher
International performer Fat Butcher uses non-narrative storytelling and and ambient digital collages to create colourful, figurative, optical stimulation.
http://fatbutcher.wordpress.com/

I’ll be playing a video short called Traffictimeblotcher:

Traffic Timeblotcher is an experimental art project exploring the rhythms and patterns of city life over time. Traffic is a little bit of an obsession in my family, where finding the shortest route from point A to point B in the greater metropolitan area is a competitive sport. So I was intrigued by the New York City’s MTA (Metropolitan Transit Authority) and DOT (Department of Transportation) webcams broadcasting live images of traffic conditions throughout New York City every day. I decided to explore other ways of experiencing this incredibly dense stream of imagery and data.

No Comments Digg del.icio.us

Immersion 2 Oct 2008

by pixelpusher on Friday 19 September 2008
[Past Performances, Performances]

It’s that time again - your favourite bi-monthly audio/visual even returns! Starting around 7:30pm and lasting until 11:30pm, on Thurs 2 October 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 E2. [schedule]

Immersion is a free-entry experimental music/visuals/sound-art event featuring a live audio-visual soundtrack of electronic atmospheres, noisescapes, pulses/rhythms and tones/drones.

Immersion 2 Oct 2008 Flyer

Immersion 2 Oct 2008 Flyer

Read on for line-up and more

No Comments Digg del.icio.us

Michael Santos and PixelPusher at Immersion

by pixelpusher on Tuesday 16 September 2008
[Visuals, video]

Aug 7, 2008 at Immersion, in Hackney, London. Part 1 of 2.
This video was originally shared on blip.tv by pixelpusher with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license.
No Comments Digg del.icio.us