My students at the Audio-visual Production Program, at Högskolan Dalarna University College exhibits audio-visual installations in the former Duka-spot in the Bergström Shoppingmall, in Falun Sweden. Official show opening on the 4th and 5th of november, open until 10th of november. More info: http://du.se/audiovisuell

Pic: “Squareplay” by Simon Carlgren.

Welcome to the H-A-C-K opening at Färgfabriken! If you cannot attend you can still see and listen to the performance in realtime at h-a-c-k.se, which takes place sometime after the doors open 19:00 CET+1!

H-A-C-K is a threedimensional sound- and videosculpture by electronicaproducers Andreas Tilliander and Håkan Lidbo together with audio-visual artist Joel Dittrich.

In H-A-C-K music and video is created by all sounds accompanying old analogue stereos, what we usually think of as noise. These mostly unwanted sounds are here composed in a way that makes them ring beautifully instead.

In the exhibition the viewer is struck by a dense mass of impressions. Since the sound comes from several different sets of speakers, which all have a different character of sound and are placed at various heights and depths, the impression is multidimensional. Furthermore if you move around in the room an interactive experience is created where you discover completely new sounds and soundcombinations. The sounds will be visible in a very distinct way on a number of TVs connected to the noise producing apparatuses.

A set of performances where the participating artists and invited guests play the installation is also planned during the exhibition period. H-A-C-K is exhibited in Färgfabrikens projectroom 25 aug. – 16 okt. 2011. Free entrance!

Lövholmsbrinken 1
SE 117 43 Stockholm
Subway: Liljeholmen
Tram: Trekanten

Interviews at h-a-c-k.se/interviews

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hakanlidbo.com
repeatle.com
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Full rez photos: h-a-c-k.se/press

“Crowd VJ is an interactive visual show where visuals are defined through movement. You only need to bring your favorite light source and the visuals are generated for you while dancing. Easy as that! No vj is involved anymore, just party.”

Click here to view the embedded video.

Ok, Mark, you had my attention there for a few minutes. I went to the web site (www.markridder.nl/installationart/crowd-vj/) to read more about the project. On the site Mark goes a bit further in his explanation:

“Together with Crowd DJ we are Crowd Control. The audience is back in charge again. They decide what the music will be, what the visuals will show. No more remote distant arrogant dj. No more psychedelic nerdy wierdo vj, which you never saw before anyway. Just a do it your self party. Back to the core, back to the people.”

So there is a camera connected to a Macbook Pro running Mark’s Crowd VJ program that he made in Max/Jitter which paints by tracking light sources and sends the image to the projector. I will assume this gets pretty boring after 15 minutes? Or how long it takes for the crowd to get tired of waving their glow sticks (glow sticks, really?!). Maybe there are different funny brushes for the audience to paint with? Maybe one that sparkles? (I hope there isn’t a person that needs to control the brushes because then you will have to call him “BJ”)

The companioning software, Crowd DJ (made by fellow genius Tom Laan), also does camera tracking by dividing the dance floor into 9 squares. Each square represents a sound and each sound stars if at least one person enters a zone and stops if no one is there. I hope for Toms sake that there will be a lot of sound loops and at least 9 people on the dancefloor co-operating all night to make an interesting soundscape or that crowd will turn on you. Tom is using Max with Max 4 Live and Ableton Live to achieve this.

I don’t know about the name “Crowd Control”. Doesn’t it imply the authorities taking control of the crowd and not the power to the people as Mark seem to imply? Crowd control to me is when the riot police uses a water canon, plays high frequency noise or sprays the trouble makers with a disgusting smell to make them go home.

But this is fine as a school project and all but sorry, I won’t make it to your school party, I’m afraid. If you happen to be around the Hauge on December 14th, you can experience Crowd Control at the KABK gallery. Be sure to bring glow sticks, ear plugs and protective clothing.

AntiVJ, the kings of video mapping, will be presenting a new audiovisual piece directed by Romain Tardy at the Norrköping Visualiseringscenter this upcoming saturday (May 29th). The Vidiots will also feature something they call a “video sculpture”.

“Projecting immaterial information (data) on something very concrete and real (a building) is also an opportunity to think about the relationship between intangible and pratical work, statistics and factual, labour and its finality, which are all very current questions about our dematerializating world.”

Read all about the event on Facebbook.

I’m in Yokohama for Siggraph Asia. I’m helping out with a demo of Instant Broadcasting System, a software for live mixing of videostreams from mobile cameras. We’re in the Emerging Technologies section, if any one is stopping by. I will write more about the software later but first I thought I’d share this Christmas tree from Queen’s Square, Yokohama. Our boss, Oskar, voted it best in show (a bit premature since Siggraph hasn’t started yet and the tree is not part of the exhibition in any way).

This installation at Heineken’s Green Room Sessions party at Malmen, Stockholm, is a was a group effort. Jakob Grandin, head of Grandins Flying Circus asked the Vidiots to set up a triple screen video installation displaying film and photography from a number of artists. One wall displayed a slideshow and the other two video. Every 8th second a strobe went off the movies and the slideshow changed.

The gear used in this project was 3 projectors, a Triplehead2go and a Macbook Pro running Modul8 (VJ software). A Modul8 module, that was programmed specially for the occasion by The Midi Thief, sent a midi signal to a DMX light board causing the strobe to flash and the video plus slideshow to forward to the next piece.

Contributing artists:
Curator – Tony Cederteg
Left wall – Ruben Broman
Middle wall – Mathias Sterner
Right wall – Nakkna

So I went to this vase party at Nordic Light Hotel last week. Iittala was showing off their vase “Lantern” by Harri Koskinen in a two piece video installation called “Light Reflections” by the Vidiots.

The first piece was a 4:3 projection on a screen (and on a sequence of monitors in another room) portraying light shooting through the the glass surface while the vase turning on a rotating foundation going in and out of focus.

In the second piece they had vases put up on a wall and video overlapping the vases so that it looked as if streams of light were shooting up from the vases. This was the more spectacular of the two even if the “analog quality” of the first one was nice too.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Click here to view the embedded video.

It’s worth keeping track of Anti VJ’s blog!