Hey all,
As some of you already have seen, I'm working with videofeedback or videoloop systems. As most of us I started with the basics : a TV and videocamera, which you can see here :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCdrQUyCSTo
Then I removed the TV screen, replacing it with a videoprojector (beamer) and a big screen. This way I could put more detail in the drawings and even use my hands and arms to infuence the drawing, or even a screwdriver as you can see here :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvsYU5fymrg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUMp5MDRbtA
I wanted to make an interactive video installation where the viewer would also be the creator. Everybody starts from zero.. no light at all. You enter the room with a candle, 'till you come to a certain spot (between the camera and projectionscreen) and like out of nowhere a ball of light (BoL) appears, which you can then manipulate.
After working with the abstract BoL I wanted to use other excisting images in the feedback. In this example I used a dia-projection together with the videofeedback : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QD-L4EEW-I
This gives a whole other dimension to the photograph on the dia. It looks like the dia is no longer a still image, but is moving again..
(srry, not the best quality or example on YouTube)
Now I've come to the point where I replaced the projectionscreen by a human body. Which seems to open up a lot of new ways of drawing with light.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqQdVO29Tzc in this first example I just made the same feedback images I did before, only this time on a human body.
But this next example (to me) is more interesting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGTYz5JAnVM here you can realy see the interaction between body and light. When the body moves the light changes, and when the light changes the model tries to draw something different. At one time she (the model) said to me that it felt like the light was seducing her, and made her body feel all 'tinkely'.. :oops:
:idea: My next step will be using these 'findings' in an experimental film, which will be more 'narrative'. I want to create a feeling, an experience..
This is where I could use a few pointers: what do you feel about this project? Would you leave it as an interactive installation? Or take it to 'another level'? What about sound? Does it need any? etc...
Any comments or questions you might have, please post 'em here !
Thx,
grtz,k.
Hey all,
As some of you already have seen, I'm working with videofeedback or videoloop systems. As most of us I started with the basics : a TV and videocamera, which you can see here :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCdrQUyCSTo
Then I removed the TV screen, replacing it with a videoprojector (beamer) and a big screen. This way I could put more detail in the drawings and even use my hands and arms to infuence the drawing, or even a screwdriver as you can see here :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvsYU5fymrg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUMp5MDRbtA
I wanted to make an interactive video installation where the viewer would also be the creator. Everybody starts from zero.. no light at all. You enter the room with a candle, 'till you come to a certain spot (between the camera and projectionscreen) and like out of nowhere a ball of light (BoL) appears, which you can then manipulate.
After working with the abstract BoL I wanted to use other excisting images in the feedback. In this example I used a dia-projection together with the videofeedback : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QD-L4EEW-I
This gives a whole other dimension to the photograph on the dia. It looks like the dia is no longer a still image, but is moving again..
(srry, not the best quality or example on YouTube)
Now I've come to the point where I replaced the projectionscreen by a human body. Which seems to open up a lot of new ways of drawing with light.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqQdVO29Tzc in this first example I just made the same feedback images I did before, only this time on a human body.
But this next example (to me) is more interesting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGTYz5JAnVM here you can realy see the interaction between body and light. When the body moves the light changes, and when the light changes the model tries to draw something different. At one time she (the model) said to me that it felt like the light was seducing her, and made her body feel all 'tinkely'.. :oops:
:idea: My next step will be using these 'findings' in an experimental film, which will be more 'narrative'. I want to create a feeling, an experience..
This is where I could use a few pointers: what do you feel about this project? Would you leave it as an interactive installation? Or take it to 'another level'? What about sound? Does it need any? etc...
Any comments or questions you might have, please post 'em here !
Thx,
grtz,k.
Thanks, love your work + it was very interesting to learn about the evolution
and working processes that inform what you are doing, so thanks for taking the time to explain.
I think some sound might be good, I think there are many artist who are treating sound in a similar way to how you work with light, working with feedback etc in a way that is true to the essence of the form, the waves that constitute sound /light, and the fluidity that define these forms.
I can imagine a live collaboration between the right sound artist and yourself would be great.
Interested in how human forms are becoming more predominate in your work, well the female form was a focal point in the work that I saw, in particular a conventionally attractive young female, do you consider working with other body types in future? or is the unavoidable eroticism that comes pre-packaged with representations of the youthful female nude of particular interest to your study?
I think the light and alluring colours that you use are already very seductive and sensual, I think when a youthful female nude is presented in context with this she takes on an enhanced element of eroticism, and a feeling of hedonism and also decadence seems to prevail from the composition overall, it is very effective in this respect.
My personal opinion is that if this is not the response you are looking for, then perhaps you should work with a wider spectrum of different body types, but I think if this hedonistic self indulgence is what appeals to you, then you should just go for it, don't make any apologies and make work that is grotesquely vivid and flamboyant and decadent and erotic. Make something that is epic and explicit and grandiose I think you could do it well, it will piss some people off, but it is never bad to be a bit risque and personally I find it refreshing to see someone stick there fingers up at political correctness once in while.
I'm so glad you've had more results using this technique than I had. About two months ago I tried this technique on a large video projection, but I could never get the camera in the exact spot that it needed to be. The image was constantly pulsing, never settling down. You could add light, but this light would fly off in a direction very fast (not fast enough to manipulate).
As far as whether you should bring it to the next level (though I think Narrative is probably a step back :)) I'm not sure. I like it how it is.
[quote]...interesting to learn about the evolution
and working processes that inform what you are doing, so thanks for taking the time to explain.[/quote]
thx Drew! I'll keep posting the next steps then :wink:
[quote]...a live collaboration between the right sound artist and yourself would be great.[/quote]
I will definitly give this a try, now in search for that artist !
Then about the nudes: yes I do intent to work with other types of bodies as well. As I am still in an experimental, searching fase of the project I work with the people I know and trust (and the other way 'round).
But you are right about the [quote]unavoidable eroticism[/quote] that came with the first results. But I had no idea it was going to work out like this. But maybe this is indeed an interesting beginning to work with/on.
[quote]I find it refreshing to see someone stick there fingers up at political correctness once in while[/quote]
:twisted: :wink:
@SavageMonkey[quote]The image was constantly pulsing, never settling down[/quote]
Which camera do you use? You could try to slow down your shutterspeeds and/or diafragma the moment the light is 'growing', this way trying to 'settle it down' as you say... just an idea..
[quote]...to the next level (though I think Narrative is probably a step back[/quote]
Maybe it was wrong of me to speak in terms of 'levels', I do not think my work is of a 'higher level' then other 'normal' videoloops. However I do think you can do so much more with these techniques. But I can imagine that some of you like the purity of a feedbacksignal/drawing.
Thanks for your comments, I'll keep 'm in mind :wink:
CU soon,
grtz,k.
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