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I am participating as part of BOS. I will have a new installation – or a very heavily modified (and completely rreprogrammed) version of a previous installation if you want to look at it that way. I will also be showing some photography, my commercial motion graphics work and some (new to anyone in nyc, but quickly starting to feel very old looking at the date) live a/v recordings and vj material.

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This is a evolution of a previous installation i did using 2 laptops & 2 copies of gridpro – using it’s video analysis to control the delay of the live feed. the initial idea being, that there is a projection presented as a live video feed but the more you move the less real time the image is.

I built this using quartz composer so it could be turned into a fx plug for vdmx – or more likely making an fx plug from the image analysis part of it. theres some math interpolation i would like to try to see if i could get to be exponential not linear, but otherwise feels done. if i were to have it installed longer than a day, it would be nice to make it a more presentable as well.

The processing take live video feed. I used vade’s optical flow plug into detect motion (looks like the key to my use is the diffrencing of the new/old image. I do an over all average of the optical flow patch and feed it to a imgpixel to get a luminance value. this value controls a video dely and cross faded between the live image and delayed/frozen image. It also controls the vol, temp and pitch of a synthesizer instrument in garage band via midi.

(from my proposal for the 2nd installation)
Description:
The installation consists of one projection of a live camera feed using nightshot/infrared mode converted to b&w. This feed is fed through long delay (est 1-1.5 min) and real time effects. Activity in the room / on the camera dynamically controls the length of the delay, amount of visual echo and volume of the sound. More motion turns up the effects and sound. Less motion turns down the effects and sound.

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So, last month I did this project for google via Go Robot!.

the hd version looks surprisingly good if you have the patience.

Made it back from chicago where it was cold even by chicago standards.

The show was good, my piece was only mildly successfull. It did show me that it doesn’t really work so nearlty as well in an open room (it’s potentially a failure in an open room actually).

Took a processing class that was good. Now I just need to start trying to use it… more specificly, need to find a reason to use it. Suspect I’ll be using vdmx for installations for the time being. Think the things I would want to use processing for – data graphics- will take a while to figure out.

Oh, I also had to relearn an obvious lesson re using equipment (tripods) your not familiar with after a couple drinks. Think the camera still works bit I was too mad to even check. So I am lacking any decient documentation of the show. Have a few stills, but nothing that will be better than what I already had. Was hoping for some better documentation. … Oh well.

ugg…. so i never finished moving things over to the wordpress format. so things are still a mess around here.

also, please imagine a post just after jan 1, where i say happy new year and (mostly for myself) recap what happened last year.

but…., more importantly, you should come see my video installation. It will up on sat jan 24 at the motion graphics festival in chicago.

Saturday, January 24th, 9pm-12am
at Pixel Brothers Studio, 400 N Wolcott, Fourth Floor, Chicago, IL 60622

i posed a quick couple of clips from the last time it was installed.

“sorry, I’m not here right now” video installation documentation.