The Museum’s inaugural Signal to Noise party will take over the building with a three-ring circus of live electronic music, moving image performances, and interactive art. Artists, hackers, musicians, and filmmakers will activate every area of the Museum late into the night.
Nick Yulman and his robotic orchestra will accompany silent films (including Georges Méliès’s 1900 The One-Man Band and Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid’s 1943 Meshes of the Afternoon);
Martha Colburn performs live double-projections accompanied by Thollem McDonas, Greg Saunier, John Keay, Mike Evans, Laura Ortman, Matt Marinelli, Tom Carter and Marc Orleans;
chiptune artists Bit Shifter and Nullsleep electrify the dance floor with their hacked Gameboys, with outpt and Paris holding down the visuals;
laptock rock band Project Jenny, Project Jan rattles the walls; Scott Draves and the Electric Sheep evolve on screen; Victoria Keddie leads a Kodachrome funeral with prepared violin; DJ $mall ¢hange lays down the beat; Fall On Your Sword accompany their mashed-up videos of William Shatner and David Hasselhoff with live electro-jams; VJ Shantell Martin extracts partygoers’ digital auras with Liz Armstrong on the decks; Sweatshoppe passes out video paint rollers; and Babycastles drops their DIY art game cabinets and unleashes a roving cyborg arcade.
Tickets: $15 public (when ordered online), $20 at door
Hey guys, I know you’re on the edge of your seats waiting for the our full length video painting video that features us tagging in Paris, London, Berlin and Belgrade, but until then heres a little teaser from the amazing Dis-Patch Festival in Belgrade, Serbia, where we also performed our 3D DJ/VJ set. Thank you to everyone at Dis-Patch for making this happen!
SWEATSHOPPE, will be on a small European journey, from Oct. 5th-22nd. Painting video and performing our 3D psychedelic A/V set in Belgrade, London, Berlin and Paris.
For all those who want to know who master crafted the SWEATSHOPPE masks:
6′10 , from japan, Shin Muruyama is an incredibly skilled artist.
After years of experience and success in the fashion world, Shin is now focusing on his art full time. Here a couple photograph of his work he recently shared with us, as well as some of his other masks.
It’s been quite the busy past few months for us, and while we’re still getting our website together, we figured it would be a good idea to keep the kiddos clued in on whats been up.
In October we released our video “The Four Spots” which documented us running around Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan wheatpasting videos all over the city. We’ve created post-Marxist glue, hehe. We wrote a piece of software in the programming environment Max/MSP/Jitter that uses computer vision algorithms (check out the lovely cv.jit object set of Jitter objects by Jean-Marc Pelletier if you’re interested in learning more) to track a paintroller lit with LEDs and project video wherever the user strokes to create the illusion that video is being applied to a surface. We were definitely inspired by the work being done at F.A.T. Lab and all the emerging styles in the digital graffiti scene. The video quickly got picked up by Wooster Collective, Create Digital Motion, Gizmodo, PSFK, Like Cool, Today and Tomorrow, Fubiz, Trash Menagerie, Neu Black, Alt1040 and many others.
In November we headed down to the Sunshine State to rock the SCOPE Miami Launch Party @ 900 Biscayne where we debuted our 3D A/V show and the video holography style we had been developing over the past year. It was a blast, the cuban sandwiches were fantastic. NBC Miami came by and covered the event, joining everyone for a night of dancing in the warm weather.
Next up we created an installation at Scope Art Fair Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach that allowed people to throw up some video themselves. Kristen Philipkoski from BoingBoing dropped by, and we were even on the local news!
We also created an installation we titled “Do you need some water” in which we created a pile of over 1,000 footlong LED glowsticks for the public to take — turning the fair into a rave in the process — and showed our videos “The Four Spots” and “The Landing”.
[MORE PHOTOS COMMING SOON!]
For only one day, we decided to create a little psychedelic lounge for people to stop by and sit on our neon-green blow up couches while we mixed and painted videos on the walls. This relaxed environment served as a bit of precursor to the setting we designed for “Ouroboros: The History of the Universe”. As always, we brought our glowsticks with us.
[RAVE CAVE PICTURES COMING SOON!]
We also dropped by the Standard Hotel to paint video on the roof during the Creative Time party. We were having some calibration issues when the video was shot, but they were fixed and it was a great time!
This is where we met Ali Hossaini, who we collaborated with on Ouroboros: The History of the Universe, he produced the event. It was hosted by Isabella Rosellini, who we also had the pleasure of meeting.
In January, the Sundance Channel commissioned us to create a 3D video of Park City, Utah for a private showing during the Sundance Film Festival. Shooting and editing for a few days continuously, we created a 30 minute 3D video montage that turned Park City into a psychedelic winter wonderland.
[SCREENSHOTS WILL BE UP SOON]
Since then, we have been working hard on our collaboration with Ali “Ouroboros: The History of the Universe”. Right now we have many projects in the works, including a set of visual drugs and meditation rooms that use EEGs to measure your brainwave frequencies and sync 3D videos and isochronic tones to your brain. We are creating what are called Purkinje patterns (patterns of repetition that play tricks on your brain, causing mild hallucination) in 3D… and let me tell you… if you thought Ouroboros was freaky, just wait.
The moving image plays tricks on the mind. It is nothing more then man-machine made mirage. The way in which we experience video in our daily lives is inherently subversive, it works towards reassuring us that objectivity is relevant and that reality is immediate. It tells us that time is real, that we live in a concrete world, that I am me and you are you and that this is where we are. We want to let you know that this is not true. We want you to know that I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together. See how they run like pigs from a gun see how they fly.
We propose that in modern (postmodern, post-postmodern, alter-modern, however you may see it, not that it matters) times the basic units of mathematics — numbers, equations, measurements and geometry – have come to form an omnipotent spirituality, the spiritual force that propels society into motion. In a fragmented world numbers and their by-products are the only thing that remain ubiquitous. The man in not skin and boner but instead statistical information. Our work references historical spiritual illustrations of the cosmos, from vedic yantras, buddhist mandalas, and sacred geometry. Chaos shrinks into Bindu. A circle is drawn. The circle becomes a square, non-perforated. The square is divided into four, and becomes Sarva-siddhiprada chakra. Sarva-siddhiprada chakra becomes Kali yantra and Kali yantra becomes Sri yantra, altogether forming Sweat yantra. More tricks are at hand… these yantras and mandalas are not yantras and mandalas, but instead geometrical forms — mathematical equations. The wiser knows that these mathematical equations are nothing more then yantras and mandalas.
Why RGB? Because in a world of numbers RGB is at the atomic level of all colors, colors create space, and we are space-cadets.I look out my window. I see a yellow flower. If I could not see green then the flower would be blue. If I could not see blue the flower would be green. Red, green and blue — 256 0 0, 0 256 0, 0 0 256. More circles, don’t fall into the zero. RGB, the colorspace from which everything is derived. Why do we want you tripping through primary space? Erika is passed out on the floor. She even brought her dog.
(Photo Coutesy of bOING bOING)
