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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.

Last night was the 3rd installment of the Red Hook Crit. I missed last year’s race – think (know actually) I was avoiding the rain. There seems to be a lot of momentum behind this race – reaching some middle ground between an alley cat race

- at night, no official class groups, roads only semi closed, location

and official event

- labeled unsanctioned not an alley cat, well planned, pre race meeting, rules requiring helmets, people with flags and reflective gear to control traffic, started on time.

Lots of press this year, big name sponsors. I can totally see this becoming a fully sanctioned race, thought it would probably take some work to keep the format the same, particularly the late night start. I think the bicycle film fest crew were working on doing a documentary about the race. so i would expect a bunch of press on the race.

see the rest of the pictures here

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.