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.

To view more of his work

his website is coming soon www.shinmurayama.com

or you go to www.idontlikemondays.us,

where you can view and purchase more of his awesome masks  and all proceeds will go to DESIGNERS AGAINST AIDS.

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.

The Four Spots

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!

(Photo Coutesy of bOING bOING)

SWEATSHOPPE @SCOPE MIAMI, channel 10 news from SWEATSHOPPE on Vimeo.

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!

At SCOPE we met our friends at Babelgum and they invited us to perform a 3D A/V set at the Metropolis Art Prize party at Jonathan Levine Gallery.

SWEATSHOPPE 3D A/V @ Jonathan Levine Gallery, NYC from SWEATSHOPPE on Vimeo.

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.

SWEATSHOPPE and Isabella Rossellini @ Jonathan Levine Gallery from SWEATSHOPPE on Vimeo.

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Additionally, Bruno won an honorable mention for the video he created for Modeselektor’s Deboutonner, which was shown in Times Square.

Modeselektor – Deboutonner (Bonus Video) from bruno levy on Vimeo.

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.

Until next time…
Peace and love.

SWEATSHOPPE 3D A/V @ White Box Gallery NYC from SWEATSHOPPE on Vimeo.

SWEATSHOPPE 3D @ White Box Gallery NYC from SWEATSHOPPE on Vimeo.

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.

SWEATSHOPPE

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/27/arts/design/27ouroboros.html?ref=arts

The latest edition of Get Your Dance On kicks the dance-party-for-the-soul up a notch at YogaWorks Soho, with two floors featuring DJ Dhundee’s body-shaking grooves (and a beautiful studio where you can bust your biggest and best barefoot moves), a chill-out space with plenty of pillows, didgeridoos, singing bowls and more to massage your senses, and open saunas to melt away your winter blues. We also have complimentary organic chocolate, wine, and kombucha on tap to keep you going as you bounce from one chakra to the next. SWEATSHOPPE will show a 3D video in a comfortable cushion filled room.Tickets include a week of unlimited yoga for those new to the studio, with reduced admission for YW members, and all profits are donated to Housing Works! Call YW Soho to grab a spot early, and come dance with us!
Saturday 3.27
Yogaworks Soho 459 broadway
20 dollars gets you in and unlimited yoga for a week

Ouroboros: The History of the Universe from SWEATSHOPPE on Vimeo.

OUROBOROS: The History of the Universe
curated by Koan Jeff Baysa, MD

March 09, 2010 – April 23, 2010

Artist(s): Ali Hossaini, Blake Shaw, Bruno Levy

Curated by: Koan Jeff Baysa, MD

Opening Reception : Friday, March 18th, 6-8PM

* Reception is not the first day of the exhibition

Artist Talk: Wednsday, April 7th, 6-8PM
Ouroboros tells the history of cosmic evolution by animating more than 30,000 found images in custom software that generates a holographic 3D environment. Compiling and processing the images requires hundreds of hours of effort and attention to detail on every frame of video. Artists Ali Hossaini, Bruno Levy and Blake Shaw will discuss the inspiration, influences and technical processes used to make the installation.

ISE Cultural Foundation is pleased to present an exhibition, “Ouroboros: The History of the Universe”, curated by Koan Jeff Baysa, MD.
Video artist Ali Hossaini teams up with artists Blake Shaw and Bruno Levy, aka SWEATSHOPPE, to present Ouroboros: The History of the Universe. Over 30,000 images combine to tell the story of cosmic evolution from the Big Bang to Lady Gaga in an immersive 3D video environment generated by SWEATSHOPPE’s own software. The artwork was inspired by Hossaini’s investigations into the psychology of vision and SWEATSHOPPE’s interest in the hypnotic, meditative and mind-altering potential of the moving image.
Visitors will be handed 3D glasses that reveal mesmerizing arrays of animated holograms, created by seven channels of video, within a 2,000 square foot gallery. A ten-panel video sculpture will form the exhibit’s entrance, creating a richly detailed atmosphere for contemplation. Original compositions of ambient sound have been produced by the artists, and a limited edition of 3D prints will be available for purchase.

For more artists’ information, please visit at http://www.artlab.tv http://www.sweatshoppe.org/

White Box is pleased to present the Ouroboros Afterparty, a celebration of music and video art with proceeds to benefit our ongoing support for the arts. The Benefit includes multiple channels of video art in the street and in White Box’s gallery, Buttoh dance by the Vangeline Theatre, installations, urban projection and DJs spinning late night dance grooves.

Participating artists include Seth Carnes ([sic]), Ali Hossaini, Hye Rim Lee, Shantell Martin, Devan Simunovich, SWEATSHOPPE, and Vangeline Theater. Featured DJs are Smirk, Josh Doubles of Backseat Buzz, Kimyon and SWEATSHOPPE. Curated by Koan Jeffrey Baysa.

The Benefit follows the opening of Ouroboros: The History of the Universe, an immersive 3D video installation by Ali Hossaini and SWEATSHOPPE at the Ise Cultural Foundation:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=359146793336

Art Box————————

Ali Hossaini (Greatest Fighter) http://www.artlab.tv
Devan Simunovich http://www.hellofaune.com
Hye Rim Lee http://www.hyerimlee.com
Sean Capote
Shantell Martin http://www.shantellmartin.com
[sic] http://www.sic.ph
Soul Kitchen
Vangeline Theater http://www.vangeline.com

Sweat Box———————-

Josh Doubles (Backseat Buzz) http://backseatbuzz.com
Kimyon http://kimyonhuggins.com
Smirk (Wolf + Lamb, Archipel) http://wolflambmusic.com
Sweatshoppe (A/V in 3D) http://www.sweatshoppe.org
+ more TBA

$10 suggested donation to support White Box (includes 3D glasses)
Presented by Sweatshoppe | Curated by Kóan Jeff Baysa, MD
http://www.whiteboxny.org