Participants:

PERFORMANCE: SOUNDING
February 17-March 13 2010  -  $18 8:30PM

HERE Arts Center at 145 6th Ave (entrance on Dominick Street).
http://www.here.org

I know this show has a lot more than the video design to offer, but so far the video aspect is all I've gotten to see.  It's a lush abstract immersive video that plays to the theatrical non cinematic.  In other words worth seeing.

It's nothing short of amazing the amount and variety of video surfaces and environments that can be packed into a small blackbox like HERE. 

Directed by Kristin Marting 
Written by Jennifer Gibbs
Video by Tal Yarden

Featuring Bessie Award-winning Okwui Okpokwasili* as Ledaand an ensemble cast featuringTodd d'Amour, Ana Kayne, Irene Longshore, Rudy Mungaray, Michael Pemberton*, Stephen Reyes*  
Music Kamala Sankaram Set Nick Vaughan Light Rie Ono Seo Costumes Elizabeth Bourgeois Sound Jane Shaw Technical Direction Nate Lemoine Stage Management Emily Rea Casting Judy BowmanAssistants Jane Jones, Jennifer Kraus, Elenna Mosoff, Zarrin Whyte, Taili Wu

Michael working on Rope&Pulley, etc, etc, etc!

As I've mentioned before I'm keeping my eye out for that elusive super cheap projector that I'd be willing to use in situations where it would very probably be destroyed or stolen.   Not that I want any projector to suffer that fate, but even though I've extremely cavalier with $500 and even $2500 projectors I'll generally only do things with them that I have a pretty high expectation of them surviving and being used again.

Perhaps for some people that price point for being able to say "oh well" is higher but for me it's ~$50.   none of the above projectors have hit that mark yet but they are getting close.

I don't really want to dispose of the projectors but I imagine using them in street installations, or party installations where the likelihood of them walking away or just getting smashed is >25%. And based on my experience with occasionally killing a $50 component of a robot I think I can take that.
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I've been meaning to post these videos for months, but just never got round to it...

Late last year, I was immensely flattered when John Reaves, Alyce Dissette and Hal Eagar asked me if I would be interested in collaborating with photographer Janet Sternburg in creating a multimedia exhibit for the Seoul Institute of the Arts.  Of course I said yes, and by January 2009, I was getting deep into design research.

As part of this process I tried to identify a good transparent projection screen.  In the end we didn't go with this kind of projection design, however, without going into too much detail about why, here's some rough video tests I did.  Apologies for the shaky handheld camera (I was in a rush, and working by myself), but hopefully these videos might be a resource for someone else doing similar research.  

This one shows tests with an acrylic screen made by Da-Lite.  I wasn't too impressed with this one... Low contrast, and didn't deal with ambient light very well. This product definitely wasn't going to be good enough to show Janet's photography on...
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A Show Of Hands, A participatory public art project

DPI resident Ed Purver invite you to submit what you want to tell the world, and he will join hands with your idea.

This is a rare chance at participatory architecture, Ed and his cast of hands translate positive sentiments into gesture, and then silently shout it from the windows of buildings.

The piece is best described by any of the photos, on the site or here, and for the best explanation of the participation see the submitted messages section of the website, and view some of the "video translations".

Then keep and eye out for larger than life limbs.

InLight Richmond (Richmond VA), Sept 25-27 2009

DUMBO Art Under The Bridge Festival (Brooklyn NY), Sept 25-27 2009

Art In Odd Places (New York City), October 1st -18th