Apr 2007
MARRAKATTAK ONLINE
23/04/07 19:43 Filed in: online
My latest Audiovisual performance tool 'MARRAKATTAK' is now
playable online including full documentation
of the performance at Pixelazo last March in
Medellin, Colombia.
You can view it HERE
MARRAKATTAK PRESENTATION TEXT
Marrakattak Is an 8bit Latino based Percussive Interface, an audiovisual games module created for performance at Pixelazo the new Colombian node of the Pixelache festival network. Pixelazo was formed to create encounters between indigenous communities and the western electronic art scene.
Marrakattak consists of a pair of modified maracas, which, when shaken drives the audio visual performance. Moving imagery taken from a selection of sampled video sources combines with a series of pulsating Mayan, Aztec and Zapotec ritual symbols and 8bit game sounds.
Marrakattak was created to engage with the stories and traditional imagery of Colombia, it combines the physical sensibility of an authentic pair of maracas, with an altogether different end result, deriving from electronic art culture and western 8bit game aesthetics.
You can view it HERE
MARRAKATTAK PRESENTATION TEXT
Marrakattak Is an 8bit Latino based Percussive Interface, an audiovisual games module created for performance at Pixelazo the new Colombian node of the Pixelache festival network. Pixelazo was formed to create encounters between indigenous communities and the western electronic art scene.
Marrakattak consists of a pair of modified maracas, which, when shaken drives the audio visual performance. Moving imagery taken from a selection of sampled video sources combines with a series of pulsating Mayan, Aztec and Zapotec ritual symbols and 8bit game sounds.
Marrakattak was created to engage with the stories and traditional imagery of Colombia, it combines the physical sensibility of an authentic pair of maracas, with an altogether different end result, deriving from electronic art culture and western 8bit game aesthetics.
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!!SCOTLAND ROCKS!!
15/04/07 19:23 Filed in: festival
Scotland Rocks - a one of event held in New York
celebrating and showcasing new talent from the
Scottish music and video art scene.
My latest videowork 'Mirroball' was one of the selected works being shown and you can see it here.
MIRRORBALL online
This piece was premiered as a 3 channel monitor installation at the Intermedia Gallery space. The Centre for Contemporary Arts. Glasgow and is a re-master of one of my all time favourite film scenes - A psychedelic post-apocalyptic explosion scene from Michelangelo Antonioni's 1970 film 'Zabriskie Point'. For this re-edit I slowed down the selected footage and extracted the motion into its appropriate R.G.B. channels, an aesthetics reminiscent of the 1970's post processing video mixing board.
Further documentation available online HERE soon.
My latest videowork 'Mirroball' was one of the selected works being shown and you can see it here.
MIRRORBALL online
This piece was premiered as a 3 channel monitor installation at the Intermedia Gallery space. The Centre for Contemporary Arts. Glasgow and is a re-master of one of my all time favourite film scenes - A psychedelic post-apocalyptic explosion scene from Michelangelo Antonioni's 1970 film 'Zabriskie Point'. For this re-edit I slowed down the selected footage and extracted the motion into its appropriate R.G.B. channels, an aesthetics reminiscent of the 1970's post processing video mixing board.
Further documentation available online HERE soon.
PIXELAZO 2007
01/04/07 11:09 Filed in: communication
An afterword to all the fantastic people I met in
Colombia, during the Pixelazo events, especially
the people of Comuna13, Medellin.
Social and political regimes rained down on this region for many years and considerable atrocities and lives were lost during the heat. Now a place with extreme millitary presence, but at the heart a vibrant community, together they face a new future, a community full of promise, and with open arms towards our international crew 'POINTLESS CREATIONS'. In fact all pre-conceptions I had of Colombia were instantly crushed, True, its past has had quite a reputation the hostility, drug-rings, government corruption, guns, guerillas, death and danger but today in Medellin all seems safe, socialble and tranquillo.
Me playing around with Eric Sandelin's mobile ophonine pophorn project
Economical difficulties make it hard for people to consider all those creative practices that we are free to think about in Western culture, as for many they find it difficult just to get by, yet all the people i met were so 'turned on', they had a real thirst for new experience and throughout the workshops we held, they all seemed to be with us 100% of the way, share and exchange, like for like.
DJ DAZX, Johanna and Kanela from radiocapsula - Parque San Javier, Comuna13
DJDAZX has two kids and he tries to be a dad but he also has this other part to him, the digital world, and he has a dream to live off making music and being artistic and being creative, but he has this worry he has this stress that he has to provide for his family, and finds it very hard to balance both.
DJDAZX knows that the time is changing, he is preparing for the right time, and his people also have an awareness for the right time, to be ready for that moment which is definatley coming and happening within Colombian subculture is what the many people we met live for.
DJDAZX gave me a letter just before we left, he had help by his english teacher -
The first two lines say it all -
'So glad I am of you to come to my country, because through this you help young people like me.
Not to hold a gun but to click a mix'.
The products of our interactive screen workshop, re-invented and explored by the local kids during the San Javier Pointless Creations performance.
Social and political regimes rained down on this region for many years and considerable atrocities and lives were lost during the heat. Now a place with extreme millitary presence, but at the heart a vibrant community, together they face a new future, a community full of promise, and with open arms towards our international crew 'POINTLESS CREATIONS'. In fact all pre-conceptions I had of Colombia were instantly crushed, True, its past has had quite a reputation the hostility, drug-rings, government corruption, guns, guerillas, death and danger but today in Medellin all seems safe, socialble and tranquillo.
Me playing around with Eric Sandelin's mobile ophonine pophorn project
Economical difficulties make it hard for people to consider all those creative practices that we are free to think about in Western culture, as for many they find it difficult just to get by, yet all the people i met were so 'turned on', they had a real thirst for new experience and throughout the workshops we held, they all seemed to be with us 100% of the way, share and exchange, like for like.
DJ DAZX, Johanna and Kanela from radiocapsula - Parque San Javier, Comuna13
DJDAZX has two kids and he tries to be a dad but he also has this other part to him, the digital world, and he has a dream to live off making music and being artistic and being creative, but he has this worry he has this stress that he has to provide for his family, and finds it very hard to balance both.
DJDAZX knows that the time is changing, he is preparing for the right time, and his people also have an awareness for the right time, to be ready for that moment which is definatley coming and happening within Colombian subculture is what the many people we met live for.
DJDAZX gave me a letter just before we left, he had help by his english teacher -
The first two lines say it all -
'So glad I am of you to come to my country, because through this you help young people like me.
Not to hold a gun but to click a mix'.
The products of our interactive screen workshop, re-invented and explored by the local kids during the San Javier Pointless Creations performance.