In Oh What War, the first thing that we are preparing is an anachronistic/unreliable surveillance system. Mostly the system shows horizons. I have been using horizon images from No Man's Land. There were initially four horizons representing the four geographical directions. The horizons can be characterized by the following attributes:

1)The dead tree

2)desolation

3) Gas pipes

4) barbed wire

Hal said in an email to me:
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Interpretive Patching

I have started to talk with Hal about patching. A large part of my theatre video work up to this point has utilized patches that themselves form some sort of symbol or relevant shape to the piece. In europe and at the wooster group, I have worked utlizing an organic process; often I try to mimic or reflect the shape of the set (or something else related to the piece) or the narrative of the piece in my physical and virtual video patches. A good patch should look like the piece that it's a part of.

For me this kind of patching serves two very practical psychological functions. 1)it makes the video elements an unquestionable integral part and 2) it helps the video designer and operator remember how the patch looks, what it is for and where it is going....

So far the video system in Oh What War has been like a system scavenged off dead bodies- a part of the makeshift character of our old set for Culturemart... a bit of an anti-system, a series of tvs, projectors and monitors and one camera that was not centrally controlled nor completely interconnected.

I am looking for the best ways right now to clump the equipment together into organ-like entities and then figure out how they relate to eachother. I am looking for a closed system that will be the shape from which all our necessary video gestures will be possible/ attainable.

I think the shape of this patch will be disturbing like a buried octopus.

z

Layout @ DPI Residency

Tryout @ DPI Residency

Workout @ Glasslands Gallery

Hi Everyone,
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Mission:
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I got wind of this toy on the Make Blog

It's a music box kit, bring your own score :)

Certainly something to add to the atomiton toolbox.

selling on Think Geek for only $12.99
http://www.thinkgeek.com/

Not sure how to work this into a robot exactly, but maybe it's time to build a wind up robot for my son with a specialy commisioned tune loaded in it's music box.

http://www.lemurbots.org/resident.html
DEADLINE: rolling

I posted this a little while ago:
http://www.digitalperformance.org/node/209
but with rolling deadlines and oportunites each month I though I'd post a reminder.
This new program started in January 2008 looks like an interesting oportunity to work with some rocking (perhaps literaly if you want) robots and probably learn a lot.
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work in transformation
PERFORMANCE: March 25 2008 8PM
Glasslands Gallery 289 Kent Ave

DPI will join our resident artist CADEN MADSON and BIG ART GROUP on Tuesday night during their March series of "work in transformation" with fragments and notes from their new production SOS at
Glasslands Gallery in Brooklyn. BIG DANCE says each night of the series
"we'll be sneaking performance sections from the new piece into an
evening of anarchic, exuberant performance happenings, including
grotesque video immersion, fresh sound and song, real-time short films,
and invited guest artists. Get a sneak peek at our new direction and
indulge yourself in some party art, bring friends and have a
stimulating group encounter." An informal discussion will follow
whatever the performance may turn out to be... Tuesday March 25, 2008 8PM.
Pay What You Can Donation At The Door.
Glasslands Gallery 289 Kent Ave (btw South 1st and South 2nd, Bedford stop on 'L' train) Brooklyn

SOS
BIG ART
GROUP

March 19, 2008 @ 5:00 PM at Learning Worlds/GSRT/DPI 

Avant Ideation
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http://www.troikaranch.org/workshops.html

Two types of in depth workshops offered by TrokaRanch oriented toward different audiences, both exporing the use of Mark Coniglio's software Isadora.
Isadora offerers one of the best balances of ease of use and power of any software I have ever used.

Week Long workshops: 10:00AM - 4:00PM daily
June 14-18
Application Deadline April 14 2008
October 27 - 31
Application Deadline August 25 2008
$500
3LD Art & Technology Center, 80 Greenwich Street, NY, NY

Specifically Designed for Moving Image Media Artists the MIMA workshop allows students to explore strategies and techniques
for using gestures or vocalizations to interactively control computer
based media
Cost includes a six-month trial license for the Isadora software

Two Week Long workshop: 10:00AM - 4:00PM daily
June 23-July 4 2008
Application Deadline April 28 2008
$1000
3LD Art & Technology Center, 80 Greenwich Street, NY, NY

Live-I (Live-Interactive) Workshop is an intensive seminar designed for performance-based artists, the participants will have time to work on creative projects and experiments of their own.

Cost includes a one-year trial license for the Isadora software

The DPI residency has already made a big difference to my world... before I even start using the space. As part of the residency I have been able to borrow a video projector and rear projection screen that enabled me to install my piece, Future Perfect in my dream location.  Future Perfect is about the Atlantic Yards real estate development in Brooklyn, near where I live, and I'd been looking for opportunities to show it in a place where local residents can have access to it. Anyway, Jimmy Greenfield at the Soapbox Gallery on Dean St was kind enough to invite me to install it in his window gallery.  This really was the perfect space for the piece.  I'd been wanting to do a street window interaction piece, and the gallery is located right opposite the development site itself. The location really couldn't have been better.  So thank you DPI! There's documentation video up on my website here:

http://www.edpurver.com/?p=14

And I'll be temporarily re-installing it in the coming weeks for a TV pilot about the development... 

http://rhizome.org/commissions/
DEADLINE: March 31, 2008

$3000-$5000

Rhizome has expanded there scope, formerly focused strictly on Internet-based art to encompass the broad range of practices that fall under new media art.
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http://artbots.org
DEADLINE: 1 May

Artbots a very open and unusual robot celebration comes around for their 5th year.
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Hello and apologies for our late arrival on the blog. I (Mallory Catlett) will make a brief entry here about the project (OH WHAT WAR) and then I will leave it to Z (Zbigniew Bzymek) to inform you on the details. I'm the director (Mallory) and he (Zbigniew) is the video artist. 
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http://www.lonewolftribe.com/productions/bride/index.html
Bride
PERFORMANCE:
March 17 - 30 2008
8PM $10 - $10
PS122
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