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This is a clean, minimal, elegant treatment to some logos projected as a background for a fashion show at Grant Park, Chicago IL.

I think they are a good reference, but wouldn’t work in my demo reel.

Here are some old recordings, freshly uploaded. Now on vimeo they should be more convenient than quicktimes i had posted previously.
At this time i was working quite a bit with the blimp radio network / wpbr 89.3fm at the lab in chicago. Video Mixing for biweekly live webcasts.

21 June 2000 ****COSMO-ANATOMY****
at Deadtech, Chicago

KK Null and Christian Matts
also Ernst Long and Robb Drinkwater
KK Null and Christian Matts collaborate to perform a minisonic
and video duet titled “COSMO-ANATOMY.” Ernst Long and Robb Drinkwater perform Computer and Analogue Electronics.
KK Null christened Deadtech last May and now he’s back performing a duet with amazing video artist Christian Matts of Blimp Radio fame! Ernst and Robb kick off the evening with some great electronics.

**KK Null was not permitted into the country for a lack of a work visa and was sent back to Japan unfortunately so i did a a/v set with his audio on the tapes of the footage i was going to mix to his performance.

Live mix using vhs sources (about 20-40 tapes), with my old skool rig circa 99/2000 — 4 vhs + punch boxes + panasonic mx10 (2 inputs, $200 ebay) + 2 tube preview monitors.

This is a recording made at Shubas, Chicago IL (2002? ish).
Live video mix using mostly VDMX, Audio is live performance.

Live a/v mix from vhs sources, audio loops played from laptop, mixed with a panasonic mx20 video mixer.

Dj + Vj set recording at Hothouse, Chicago IL 2001/2(ish?).
Features cmatts audio/video mix.
S.Collins audio mix.
E.Boscor audio.

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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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.