Semiconductor Vs Antenna Farm
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Fri 9 March 2007 // 20:00
+ Joe Magee / Moving Image Retrospective
+ *CHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCH*
+ Granzon Nodo
(Fri March 9th / £5adv / 7pm)
Presented by Blackout Arts
www.blackoutarts.co.uk
Produced by Blackout Arts featuring a range of notable and compelling artists, this intends to be an evening of exceptions. Unformed landscapes, seismic visuals, micro-biological undercurrents, physical-sensory discoveries all constructed by live AV performance and film screenings.
SEMICONDUCTOR v ANTENNA FARM
Semiconductor are widely exhibited artists that make cutting edge digital sound-flims, music videos and live animation, notable as artists in residence at the NASA Space Sciences Laboratory UCB.
This unique and highly anticipated collaboration utilizes Semiconductor's latest contribution to the genre of live cinema, from their dedicated live performance software 'Sonic Inc' - a real-time 3D drawing tool that charts the beginning of an artificial world and its shapeless inhabitants. The program 'listens' to the sound input and creates and animates the landscapes and the creatures from scratch, according to real time inputs. Every single element is controlled in real-time. This can be directly feed with live musicians, in this case London-based duo Antenna Farm (FatCat / Phthalo / Staalplaat) will provide live, improvised audio, utilizing a mixture of laptops, minidisks and live
instrumentation to form scratchy, flickering and continually growing and shifting sound-world.
The visual aesthetic of 'Sonic Inc.' moves away from the high-tech world of computer graphics and towards the inherent visual language of the computer as material. The slick complexity of current computer graphics is stripped back to reveal the basic building blocks of computational visual language. An unformed landscape evolves with simple "life forms" that grow according to the soundscape fed into the programme. Forming as basic structures and developing into creatures, these forms learn to move autonomously, grow, respond to and build their own environments.
Sonic Inc's development was inspired by the challenge to create truly live image creation and manipulation. It feels beautifully mutant as the cameras, the viewpoint, the creation and application of image textures, the creature development, the landscape creation etc are all formed by AF’s distinct sound manipulation.
This performance follows the release of their ‘Worlds In Flux’ dvd.
http://www.semiconductorfilms.com
JOE MAGEE / MOVING IMAGE RETROSPECTIVE
Joe Magee is a Bristol-based artist and film-maker who began his career as an illustrator - becoming a regular contributor to publications such as The Guardian, Newsweek and Libération.
His short films and animations have shown at film festivals including London, Edinburgh, Tampere and Cannes - and won several awards along the
way. This Blackout retrospective presents a range of his short films - from early unseen animation experiments to recent live-action installation work. The Screening will also include Hypnomart, Gearhead, Blackbird Has Spoken and Jesusplex.
His range of film work is rare for its consistency and notoriety – eliciting strong responses. Witty, political works that are hyper-visual and beguiling to watch but that never lose track of their central purposes. Watched alongside each other his work seems to be defined by its ability to capture and control micro-motifs or seemingly simple moments to stimulating effect.
http://www.periphery.co.uk
*CHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCH*
Vi and Rod K.Maclachlan combine to warm up the audience with a live performance of heat manipulation. The deep throb and undertow of audio artists Vi will vibrate the room as a rippling mirage fills the screen. Midi-triggered minimal video loops and thermal imaging footage will distort, refracted by radiant heat. Oscillating rhythms, hot bent light - get your jumper off!
http://www.blackoutarts.co.uk/blackout/about.htm
http://sparror.cubecinema.com/hogge/vi.html/
GRA
+ *CHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCH*
+ Granzon Nodo
(Fri March 9th / £5adv / 7pm)
Presented by Blackout Arts
www.blackoutarts.co.uk
Produced by Blackout Arts featuring a range of notable and compelling artists, this intends to be an evening of exceptions. Unformed landscapes, seismic visuals, micro-biological undercurrents, physical-sensory discoveries all constructed by live AV performance and film screenings.
SEMICONDUCTOR v ANTENNA FARM
Semiconductor are widely exhibited artists that make cutting edge digital sound-flims, music videos and live animation, notable as artists in residence at the NASA Space Sciences Laboratory UCB.
This unique and highly anticipated collaboration utilizes Semiconductor's latest contribution to the genre of live cinema, from their dedicated live performance software 'Sonic Inc' - a real-time 3D drawing tool that charts the beginning of an artificial world and its shapeless inhabitants. The program 'listens' to the sound input and creates and animates the landscapes and the creatures from scratch, according to real time inputs. Every single element is controlled in real-time. This can be directly feed with live musicians, in this case London-based duo Antenna Farm (FatCat / Phthalo / Staalplaat) will provide live, improvised audio, utilizing a mixture of laptops, minidisks and live
instrumentation to form scratchy, flickering and continually growing and shifting sound-world.
The visual aesthetic of 'Sonic Inc.' moves away from the high-tech world of computer graphics and towards the inherent visual language of the computer as material. The slick complexity of current computer graphics is stripped back to reveal the basic building blocks of computational visual language. An unformed landscape evolves with simple "life forms" that grow according to the soundscape fed into the programme. Forming as basic structures and developing into creatures, these forms learn to move autonomously, grow, respond to and build their own environments.
Sonic Inc's development was inspired by the challenge to create truly live image creation and manipulation. It feels beautifully mutant as the cameras, the viewpoint, the creation and application of image textures, the creature development, the landscape creation etc are all formed by AF’s distinct sound manipulation.
This performance follows the release of their ‘Worlds In Flux’ dvd.
http://www.semiconductorfilms.com
JOE MAGEE / MOVING IMAGE RETROSPECTIVE
Joe Magee is a Bristol-based artist and film-maker who began his career as an illustrator - becoming a regular contributor to publications such as The Guardian, Newsweek and Libération.
His short films and animations have shown at film festivals including London, Edinburgh, Tampere and Cannes - and won several awards along the
way. This Blackout retrospective presents a range of his short films - from early unseen animation experiments to recent live-action installation work. The Screening will also include Hypnomart, Gearhead, Blackbird Has Spoken and Jesusplex.
His range of film work is rare for its consistency and notoriety – eliciting strong responses. Witty, political works that are hyper-visual and beguiling to watch but that never lose track of their central purposes. Watched alongside each other his work seems to be defined by its ability to capture and control micro-motifs or seemingly simple moments to stimulating effect.
http://www.periphery.co.uk
*CHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCH*
Vi and Rod K.Maclachlan combine to warm up the audience with a live performance of heat manipulation. The deep throb and undertow of audio artists Vi will vibrate the room as a rippling mirage fills the screen. Midi-triggered minimal video loops and thermal imaging footage will distort, refracted by radiant heat. Oscillating rhythms, hot bent light - get your jumper off!
http://www.blackoutarts.co.uk/blackout/about.htm
http://sparror.cubecinema.com/hogge/vi.html/
GRA