Project 3 Proposal

For this project, I will be working with Joey,

 I will be designing visuals, and reactive video to music, while joey will be creating music and setting up a MIDI controller for the viewers to interact with.

   The project is going to be a live DJ show, with interactive music decided by the viewers. They will walk up and play the notes on the keyboard so that it will be fully decided by the viewer. The footage will react with the audio and create a video based on what they choose. We will have a variety of music to go along with variety of video effects.

There will be a background behind the DJ booth with a crowd acting like its in a club/venue.
The entire performance should last less then 5 minutes.

Materials:

MIDI Controller

Laptops

DJ Console

XLR Wires

Power Cords

RCA Wires

Projector(s)

Erik Duty: Video and setup

Joel Duty:Music and setup

Timeframe:

by the 2nd of november, we will have the test performance ready

by the 8th will be setup and ready for presentation.

Project 2 Artist Statement

What is this thing? Why does is seem to radiate? Where did it come from?
The theme i want to follow for the semester is sci-fi, first with mythology in the first project and now
with aliens in the second. The mysterious is very appealing to me, i would like to channel it in all that i do.

The object is supposed to have magically appeared and the video is meant to be like found footage. What is this mysterious object, why does it radiate energy, are all things i want to convey in this.

Project 2 Process Post 3

I have started working on the footage and making the video on tuesday

Project 2 Process post 2

On sunday i started to come up with ideas of where to place the artifact and what effects to use and what content to create for it.

Project 2 process post 1

To start the project me and my friend Justin started to create the basic shape of the alien artifact.

Artist Research 2

My research is on Yayoi Kusama's Love is Calling at the TMA. I went to see this last weekend, and it was absolutely incredible. The wait to get in was pretty long, over an hour, and while waiting you can watch a video of an interview with her as well as the wall having lots of information about her and her art style, as well as why she picks Polkadots.
You are only allowed to experience the room over 2 minutes, and afterwards they air out the room for a minute. Ten people can be in it at one time, and during the 2 minutes you hear a poem being spoken by Yayoi in japanese.

Proposal 2

For my next project I would like to continue with a sci-fi theme.
I want to project onto a piece and create the element of alien technology in the darkness of my yard and create a sculpute for this. I will then record someone discovering the artifact and it activates it. The projection should be able to activate the effects and if I have to add post process effects to enhance the effect.

I will use props that I have already started making as well as a
camera, fig rig, the HD projector and a few other small things to set up and record the scene.

Process Post 3

I was able to get my videos set up and projected to the boxes on the stairs. as well as final prep for the projection.

Process Post2

For the second working test i was able to get it set up and working on the wall. I have to use sand bags, ratchet clamps, and apple boxes to get it set up. I have to use white boards and appleboxes with clamps to hold them in place over the staircase.

Artist Research

The artist I chose was Rosa Menkman, she is a dutch glitch artist known for her theories on video resolution and glitches. She feels that people need to stop fearing "glitches" and embrace the random and unknown. Many people fear having glitches or accidents but she emphasizes that people need to embrace them.

  She uses signal interference and program artifacting to create the glitches, while combining sound and video elements to create the art as a whole. The way her art combines odd messed up rendered objects and glitched out audio creates a sense of unease but the aesthetic is still unique.

A piece i like is Pattern Recognition Beyond Resolution, a video she was commisioned to make that got declined for being too weird!

Her glitch art manifesto:
https://beyondresolution.info/Glitch-Studies-Manifesto

Process Post 1

For my project I have tested out the projector and have started to figure out a way to set up the projector so that it can fit the entire staircase. I will also use apple boxes, clamps and sand bags to rig up the projector. I have started to film the videos i want to use for this as well, and set up a test in the black box