Its been a busy October of Projector Bombing! ARTRAGE asked me to bring the gear to some of their art events, the first two being the opening of the Silver Art Exhibition at PICA (Perth Institute of Contemporary Art) in Perth’s Cultural District and Reka One’s Exhibition “Against the Grain” at Wasteland in Kings Street, Perth. On King Street we had the coolest mobile rig yet, a nice bright n clean cardboard recycling dumpster, it kept the gear nice an dry when rain threatened as well as creating some nice deep bass from my speakers.
Tuesday 14th October 2008
Another successful night of projector bombing in Perth. I once again invited all to come and resurface a building with light. This time we where out on a full moon and the projector held up quite well under the extra light. Fellow VJ’s Kat and Jasper from VJzoo came down and joined us as well, treating us to some of their newest visuals. Those who stayed late would of also seen me do a quick little AV jam with old 80’s cartoons.
I’ve Finally found the time to get together a Video of some of the Electronic Street Art I got involved with during my Video Art residency on Christmas Island.
There is actually a bit of uneasiness amongst locals over their future on the island (especially the economy and employment prospects). Digital Graffiti enabled the younger generation to really show some ownership and belonging on this beautiful Island they call home.
Now that I’m back from Christmas Island I can start getting some of the stuff I got upto online…
Below are some unedited live video mixes I made about half way through my residency. They contain footage I collected on the island. Music is from Nine Inch Nails album Ghosts I-IV, its great stuff and its under a creative commons license!
Ive been on Christmas Island doing a Video art Residency for the past 7 weeks….
so now that I’m back I’ve been able to upload the video from before I left.
This was in August…
I now have a 240v inverter for my Car, What this means is that I can power all of the street projection equipment from my car. This makes my set-up even more mobile than the “shopping trolley” set-up. Here’s some photos of some of the random Projector Bombing in Perth during August…
above: Perth very drab & windowless Telstra building
above: video mapping experiment on Perth’s foreshore.
Despite depressing winter weather, Perth’s fourth night of collaborative projections went ahead without a glitch on the 1st August. The Mob congregating under a covered carpark surounded by high rise buildings. This Provided us with shelter and a big dull wall to transform.
In July this year fellow artist Louise Snook and I traveled to Mullewa (5 hour drive from Perth). There we engaged the local kids in art activities based around the theme “FEAST” and food art as part of Awesome Arts ongoing creative challenge project for kids in rural WA.
Making art out of food is alot messier than electronic art! but it can be just as much fun!
Being a community artist is great! the Mullewa community where great… immediately accepting us. We where invited to local farms growing vegie’s and shearing wool, watched latin dancing at the rec centre and went to Saturday night Karaoke at one of the two pubs… After singing a few songs we where described as “Solid” by more than one of the locals.
The language spoken here is also unique with the kids coming up with some hilarious sayings… We even found a new word to rival the festivals theme “feast”… in Mullewa it seems “blockin” means eating, as in blockin your hole (covering your mouth with food).
I dont however think they would be too keen on changing the title to “Blockin 2008″.
In June Stephan and I traveled to Melbourne, There we caught up with Justin and Simeon (whom I met at GRL masterclass in Adelaide) they run Horse Bazaar and Digital Fringe.
We organised to go out projector Bombing in Melbourne… with my projector and their MPU (mobile projection unit) station wagon loaded with gear and a large bank of batteries… we quickly got to work transforming the city.
above: the video that took over a month to get around to editing :\
