Night performances - video simultaneously as medium, documentation and spectator event:
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Part 1: Abstract trace effects with light, e.g. using the moon to write / draw with.
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Part 3: 11.8mb
On the evening of saturday the 21st after dinner, several artists, with initial prompting from the residency leader Melissa Bliss, decided to set up a table in the garden for the projection of a performance against the back of Kench Hill House.
Throughout the day most of the mobile equipment, e.g. the wireless cameras, had been used extensively, to roam the grounds exploring ideas, equipment and the countryside in the sunshine. With darkness setting in and a different set of constraints, brightness / visibility and the need for electricity to power both the equipment used directly in a performance and lighting to make the performance visible, it was decided to focus less on the mobility of equipment and instead on its possibility to combine or network in various ways.
The wireless cameras were used again due to their size. Simultaneously an analog video mixer and a digital projector were used to mix incoming video from different cameras and project it across the facade of the building. While video had been used during the day as both part of the performance itself and as a means to capture or document performers actions, this aspect of instantly manipulating and displaying the outcome to a potential audience was a new direction for the group.
The performance had many features in common with spectator events such as DJ'ing / VJ'ing because of its set up and so sound was used throughout from sources such as an ipod and a radio. Videos shown here document the performance and its change in style.
