Occupy Wall Street meets public projections

For those of you who weren't there on the bridge tonight, here's a fantastic use of the power of projected images in public space.  I need to find out more about who was behind this, but it was pretty fantastic.

More 3D architectural projections

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=XVTga6GmbGw&vq=medium#t=74 [Thanks Michael!]

Spencer Finch on the High Line

An interesting site-specific piece that becomes an illuminated screen at certain parts of the day.

Animated Facade of the Chanel Store in Tokyo

Thanks Hye Won!

More Zoetropes and 3D Animation

Check out this local artist's work: http://snakemonkey.tv/ . [Thanks Ciara!]

The Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria

This artist does some really amazing things with LED lights mounted on a wall to look like lo-res filmic images.  This installation at the Museum of the Moving Image seems like a great excuse to get out to Queens to this great museum!  Unfortunately it closes tomorrow...

http://www.movingimage.us/exhibitions/2011/08/26/detail/jim-campbell-exploded-view-commuters/

This exhibition also looks interesting to members of our class (and also, unfortunately, ends tomorrow):
http://www.movingimage.us/exhibitions/2011/07/18/detail/christopher-baker-hello-world-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-listening-and-love-the-noise/

Great resource for experimental film and video

Ubu Web has thousands of clips and films for you to watch, and a number of informative articles.

http://www.ubuweb.com/

Expanded Cinema

See an interview with Anthony McCall about his piece at Creative Time's PLOT09 on Governor's Island:




Recent retrospective on Stan Van Der Beek (maker of the Movie Drome, not Dawson's brother):
http://www.npr.org/2011/07/10/137709813/stan-vanderbeek-film-on-the-cutting-edge

Krzysztof Wodiczko

Here are some links to videos and information on Wodiczko's latest work with veterans of war.

War Veteran Vehicle: http://sap.mit.edu/resources/portfolio/projecting_voices/

Veteran's Flame:



...OUT OF HERE

http://www.icaboston.org/exhibitions/exhibit/wodiczko/

Also, here is the episode of Art: 21 that I screened in class:
http://www.pbs.org/art21/films/power

Baseball and Social Media [unrelated to screens]

You asked for it, so here it is:

http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2011/10/26/tagging-fans-tweeting-beards-major-league-baseball-social-media-and-body

Some of you may want to poke around this site to find potential ideas for your papers.  There are a lot of weeks on media arts and non-traditional cinemas.

Zoetropes Meet High Fashion

Great large-scale Zoetrope in London... just in time for your Masstransiscope trips :-)


Temperley London Circus Zoetrope from LEGS MEDIA on Vimeo.

[Thanks Taryn!]

Help Ciara win a film contest!

Here are instructions for how to watch and vote for a short film by your fellow classmate:

1. Click link and press "Vote" on the right.

2. Register

3. Check for confirmation email

4. After you get the email, you MUST press Vote AGAIN in order for it to go through!

I promise it sounds more annoying then it actually is. Here's the link:

http://www.tenlegs.com/item_detail&id=MTIyNQ==&ctype=MA==

This, of course, goes for any of you who would like to share your work on this blog as well.

Great work, Ciara - hope you win!

Experimental Cinema from last week

Paul Sharits, Ray Gun Virus, 1966




Stan Brakage, Prelude: Dog Star Man, 1961




Clip from Ronald Nameth's film about Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable, 1967

Opportunity for publication (and cash!)

The annual Vera List New School Art Collection Writing Awards competition is underway.  This year's theme is "thingness" and you can get ideas via this map.  These essays may be critical or creative and respond to an object in the New School's collection.  First place gets $400 and second place gets $200!

If you are interested in participating in this competition, let me know and I can help review drafts for you.

Deadline is Feb 21st.

Green Screen Rockers in the Lower East Side

Taji might have to explain exactly what's going on here... but it looks awesome.  I want to go there!

Major League Baseball, Social Media, and Public Screens

Emma took a visit to the MLB Fan Cave over on Broadway and W 4th Street.  Their interactive screen is quite similar to the HTC one I shared earlier, only you get your photo taken with the World Series trophy.

I've actually got a piece coming up next week for In Media Res re: baseball and Twitter... I'll post it if it turns out OK :-)

Film series at the MoMA

Want to watch the greats of Classic Hollywood and learn about auteur theory (the birth of studying film as a serious art)?  Check out this series at MoMA.

Reminder: you get into MoMA for free with your Parsons ID, and film tickets are free as long as you have a museum ticket for that day... so just go to the information desk for your ticket to the museum and use it for some free films!

[Thanks, Lesley!]

Screens as Wallpaper

Check out this interactive wall treatment from Austria.


Hirzberger Events - Digital Wallpaper from Strukt on Vimeo.

More info here.  [Thanks Hyewon!]

Also scroll down on the more info link for the Apple App wall...

Gene Youngblood Documentary

Here are some clips for a documentary in progress about Gene Youngblood. There are interviews with a number of famous experimental filmmakers and video artists (many of which we've discussed in class!

Secession From The Broadcast trailer 1F from bryan konefsky on Vimeo.

Classical Hollywood Cinema

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Textbook example of how Classical Hollywood created a seamless diegesis through visual form. Pay particular attention to eye-line matches and relationships between cuts.

Music Visualization in the 21st Century

Having trouble embedding the video, but definitely worth a look1

http://thecreatorsproject.com/creators/united-visual-artists

[Thanks Constantine!]

A Future of ENDLESS Screens

It was seductive to me for the first minute... then I started to fear this impending future.

[Thanks Hye Won!]

TRIPPY! A strobe-light zoetrope

Installation at Burning Man 2011 that operates on the principle of the zoetrope, but appears to use strobe lights and projectors rather than regularly spaced slits. After thinking of the psychedelic light shows from last week - this certainly seems like a connection.

[Thanks Taji!]

The Most Terrifying Film Ever Made...or not. And some early special effects.

Lumiere Brothers, Arrival of a Train at the Station, 1895

Georges Melies, The Astronomer's Dream, 1898.

Unlike the factual films of the Lumiere Brothers (and Edison's company in the US), Melies used film to produce fictional scenarios where things move and appear and disappear in strange ways.

A Truly Immersive Spectator Experience

Sleep No More - an interactive performance/exploration through a hotel based loosely on Shakespeare's Macbeth. Not a lot of screens, but certainly of interest to the relationships between architecture and spectators.

[Thanks Alex!]

Upcoming event: Silent Films at the Brooklyn Library

First is on October 2nd. See link for details.

[Thanks Lesley!]

Interactive screens and advertising

Playing with surveillance for the show "Person of Interest" http://www.cbs.com/shows/person_of_interest/video/

[Thanks Charis!]

Playing with a new tablet... on a midtown office building facade(?) Spotted on Park Ave around 40-41 Sts

You take a photo of yourself, then alter it using the "Paint" function on the new HTC table, then email it to yourself (final email in bottom picture). Hopefully the actual tablets function better than the large screen... I was trying to write "Hi Class!" and ended up making an abstract mess.

Dada Cinema

Duchamp's Anemic Cinema



Richter's Ghosts before Breakfast [Thanks Ciara!]

On view until 9/24 on the Highline...

Remote Nation by Kevin Cooley.

remote nation - Kevin Cooley from KC+BB on Vimeo.

Fascinating bridge between public and private space going on here. More info available via: http://www.remotenation.tv/about.html
(Thanks, Charis!)

Bill Brand's Masstransiscope

See also: http://www.bboptics.com/masstransiscope.html

Jason Eppink's The Pixelator

Pixelator from Jason Eppink on Vimeo.

For more info on this piece: http://jasoneppink.com/pixelator/ .

Please upload video and comments if you happen to see one of these in person!