I recently teamed up with the guys running Reface to transform Perth for the Perth International Arts Festival. Over a series of nights Perth was subject to the brightest Projector Bombing to date. With eight Projectors bombarding numerous walls at once. Projected were a huge library of physical street art photos as well as interactive street art (tablet and infrared painting as well as GRL’s laser tag).
The Reface Project is the brain child of Perth Street arts group Ololo and production company WBMC. The Project website has brought together street art images from all over to be appreciated online and now also represented back in the street as Projected art.
Interactive Street art systems where operated by Steve Berrick and Myself. Many people had fun painting and drawing on the side of the very posh Duxton hotel, and Steve’s new virtual spray can (IR wiimote style) was a huge success.
The Southbound festival is a two day music festival that always seems to sell out. Organisers providing not only awesome amenities for campers that stay overnight but also bring in some amazing international acts.
As part of this festival I was in charge of providing visuals for the performers in the Big Top. With my small crew (Daniel Moller and Brett Cullen) we mixed, filtered and composed striking visuals from multiple camera feeds and motion graphics.
Musical acts unlike other music festivals were quite broad, everything from acoustic and Folk to Electronica and Hip Hop. They were…
29th December 2008
Another fun night of street projections, this time visible from William Street in Northbridge. As usual we drew live and unsolicited art with my projector. This was our 7th official Street Projection night and the last for 2008. Lots more install for 2009.
Also on the 1st December 08, The super kitch cosmic smily face shone down on us all here in Australia. This cant be anything but awesomely good.
Photo op! my housemate moller and I, smile with the sky.
The three brightest celestial bodies (i think) re-arranged themselves so Jupiter and Venus were the eyes and a crescent moon the mouth. Sucked to be in New york on this night because instead of a happy face they got a upside down frown. lol
From the depths of my evil computer lab I bring you a B&W Elvis video clips, remastered or should I say reverse engineered, as some psychodelic waste land…
ABOVE: this my mutated version
BELOW: The original version which I haven’t touched, don’t be afraid to play both simultaneously
…just experiementing with whats possible in resolume 3 at the moment. And Elvis seemed like a nice kitch figure to play with.
Monday 1st December 2008 Moller and I walked down the road for live drawing hosted by DrSketchy’s @ the brisbane hotel. I couldn’t find any of my “real” drawing gear so i dragged along my tablet pc instead. I don’t actual consider myself good at life drawing.. and as such its more about trying to be a little less shit than last time.
This is the first time Ive taken my tablet pc to a life drawing session. Its fast paced, so using a computer at times caught me off guard (turning the page is easier than creating a new file)… but the ablity to undo rocked as well having the fastest colour pallet, and biggest selection of brushes in the room
I suppose the real benefit of digital drawing is its easier to share in our web 2.0 world.
Sunday 30th November, 2008
It’s always great to VJ at music Festivals and Stereosonic at the Claremont Show Grounds in Perth was no exception. Well organised and with a abundant supply of music lovers to soak up the vibes.
above: Short snippets of live visuals recorded on the day. The quality is not great but you really had to be there on the day… besides theres always next time.
In yet another win for the walls of Perth! Arts collective Ololo have joined forces with production company WBMC to do there own Street Projection project in Perth. Its called Re-Face and its funded by the New iArts Grant. They’ll be calling for artwork to be submitted. Hopefully you’ll all support them.
The site is not fully operational yet but a quick blurb is already in place.
which you can check out here… http://www.abc.net.au/tv/reface/
The Ololo collective are very active in the Perth Street art scene, in fact Ololo member and web guru Steve Berrick often lends a hand with street projecting. Hopefully we can make Perth the Electronic Street Art capital!
Thursday, 27th November 2008
Once again we hit the streets of Perth to repaint it with some light. A nice blank wall beside a empty lot in a semi industrial area proved a perfect spot. We started as usual with some drawing with the graphics tablet, VJzoo turned up and we where now projecting with three light cannons and totally resurfacing the building!
I experimented on the participants with some new audio visual mixing and the guys from Re-Face came past for a chat and to do some filming.
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.
.jpg "CSPv7 william street")
.jpg "Moller drawing @ CSPv7")
