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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.
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.
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!
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.
On September 17, we led our Phase Shift Intro to Live Visuals workshop in Portland, Oregon, hosted by Synth Library Portland and CETI. Our attendees were an excellent group of videonauts, and we had a great time learning and experimenting. Many thanks to Jon Daries, Thomas Fang, Adam Sladek, and everyone else at CETI and Synth Library Portland who helped put this together!
