October 19, 2023 |
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On October 19, we led a
Phase Shift
workshop and artist talk at
Indexical
in Santa Cruz, with special guests
Allen Riley
and
Denise Gallant. It was wonderful to see Allen, who is a good friend and
former Brooklyn neighbor, now working on his PhD at UC Santa
Cruz. It was also my first time meeting Denise, who has been
working with video synthesis since the 1970s!
Michael Masaru Flora, my former classmate at Alfred and fellow audiovisual artist,
helped us set up the event. He's now the Executive Director at
Indexical! I'd heard lots of good things about this venue, so it
was cool to finally get to be there in person.
We had a great turnout. Most of the folks who came were somehow
associated with UC Santa Cruz. We had a record number of video
game developers. The event was a combination of an artist talk
and a workshop, beginning with each of us sharing about our art
practice and demonstrating some techniques, and ending with an
interactive opportunity to explore our tools.
Much gratitude to Allen, Denise, and Michael. We look forward to
visiting Santa Cruz again!
October 14, 2023 |
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On October 14, we led a
Phase Shift
video art workshop at Cat Factory, a diy space in San Francisco.
Evan Sirchuk
helped us organize it, and also invited us to visit the
Internet Archive
where he works. We had more help and gear lending from Nathan
Trachimowicz,
Chris Farstad, and
Fetz A/V. Many televisions were activated with mesmerizing patterns,
and fun and educational times were had by all.
October 12, 2023 |
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On October 12, we hosted a
Phase Shift
Video Artist Meetup at
Syzygy
in San Francisco, in collaboration with
AV Club, a local art collective for technology-based performers. We
set up an interactive demo of some of our gear, including
Andrei's
gravity_waaaves, waaave_pool and artificial_life. Our friend
Sean Russell Hallowell
also brought his self-built modular video synthesizer (and we
had some fun sending signals back and forth between our
systems).
Syzygy is a really nice community-run space, and the AV Club
there is an awesome hub of algorave folks in the area. I had a
great time meeting a bunch of new people, including
Sarah GHP, a fellow video artist who I'd only known from online.
October 7, 2023 |
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On October 7, we led a
Phase Shift
video art workshop at a private studio & wood shop in
Eugene, Oregon. Attendees were a mixed group with some
experienced video artists and some beginners, so it was cool to
see the more experienced folks sharing their knowledge and
personal techniques. Many thanks to Josiah Martens for hosting
the event and to Adam Sladek for providing video equiment and
some cool kaleidoscopic mirrors!
October 5, 2023 |
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On October 5, we did a visiting artist workshop at University of
Oregon in Eugene, for the class Digital Imaging taught by our
friend
Kevin Kripper. We discussed iterative processes, feedback loops &
recursion, and reaction-diffusion/Turing patterns in digital
& analog processes and in nature. The students learned how
to generate their own Turing patterns from photos, like in the
examples below.
