FROST: Danish Dance Theatre

FROST from Tina Tarpgaard on Vimeo.

The video above appears to be a complete recording of FROST, a Dansk Danseteater collaboration with Recoil Performance Group.

FROST was developed in conjunction with what video artist Ole Kristensen calls "reactive projection scenography."

You can find a description of FROST from Ole Kristensen's point of view here: http://3xw.ole.kristensen.name/works/frost/

Choreography: Tina Tarpgaard (recoil)
Video artist: Ole Kristensen and Jonas Jongejan
Music: Jens Hørsving
Costumes: Charlotte Østergaard
Light Design: Andreas Buhl

Produced by Danish Dance Theatre
Thanks to: Emma- Cecillia Ajanki, Frieder Weiss, Matias Seibæk and Andreas Olsen, Anders Jørgensen, Illutron

www.danskdanseteater.dk
www.recoil-performance.org

"HELICOPTER BOYZ IN YOMIURI LAND"

I have been hoping to use Pico Projectors in my own work for a while now.

Found on Slashdot via Engaget here is an interesting possibility for them in a dance application.

Exploring the Moon

Media Theory Pressure Project 4.

Exploring The Moon from Alex Oliszewski on Vimeo.

Exploration of the Moon | a 2 minute audio centric narrative

Video of the moon at the end of the work was provided by Artist/Composer: Garage

provided through Creative Commons license: Attribution

Video of Apollo 11 provided by NASA.

The "found sound" in this piece is comprised of works available within the public domain.

This video in turn is available through a Creative Commons license of: Use with Attribution.

Media Theory: A Day in Observation

This image was created as my response to a pressure project assigned in my Media Theory class. We were prompted to observe - over the course of one day - the different ways in which our movements and actions were recorded or other wise surveyed. We were then to create a graphic image representing our observations.

In retrospect, I chose to approach this project from a more artistic gaze then some of my colleges. You can find examples of my classmates work here: http://ame4.hc.asu.edu/blog/mediatheory/?m=200910&paged=4

On Saturday, the day I took in observance of this pressure project, the only leave I took of the house was to go to the Fry’s market a few blocks from my house. The 1UP represents an acknowledgment that Fry’s provides me with food, the extra life points to make it through another day, and that this "health boost" was recorded by "the system.".

A virtual day? A day sitting before the LCD? A sky obscured with hyperlinks? A digital extra life?

I have received a number of questions about the subject sitting at the computer (representing me) with the submarine. I can only say that the placement of the submarine's para-scope in my colon represents the invasive and intimate nature of contemporary surveillance technology.

Interview With Frieder Weiss

Find more videos like this on dance-tech.net


I just found this interview with Frieder Weiss at European-tele-plateaus.eu. I have been following his work and found this interview very informative, both on where Weiss is headed, and where he has been. As I have mentioned before he is the developer of Eyecon a motion sensing software technology as well an algorithmic artist who has collaborated with a number of different dance companies. One of his collaborative works with Chunky Move, Mortal Engine, is slated to for a series of performances at BAM's Next Wave Festival this December 9th - 12th.

Research Methods: MindMap

Below are two snapshots of the current state of a mindMap / purpose journal that I am keeping for Thea 500: Theater Research Methods.

You should be able to zoom in and get a sense of the contents.

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Media Theory: Pressure Project 2

~ from Alex Oliszewski on Vimeo.

Pressure Project 2: A non-verbal gesture based and encoded transmission of one of my first memories.

Media Theory: Preasure Project 1

Pulp Fiction Translation from Alex Oliszewski on Vimeo.

My translation of the "Cheese Burger Royal" scene from Pulp Fiction through Google Image searches of the key words and phrases of the conversation.

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Chunky Move: Mortal Engine

You can find here a brief and very positive review of Chunky Move's new piece Mortal Coil from The Dance Journal.

Cultural Media Isolation

Among others, Sam Stein from the Huffing Post has pointed out that Fox News Channel has now twice been found mislabeling Republican politicians as Democrats durring a national election. The more recent example coming from their coverage of SC Governor Mark Sanford's trysts. The final lines of Stien's short post reads: "There is, of course, a small danger to these quick journalistic missteps. They get repeated. Look, for instance at this Google News finding for 'Mark Foley, D-Florida.'"

Though it may seem anti-intuitive at first I have a sense that our current networked communication technologies are able to isolate individuals and perhaps groups of people from good information.

A market saturated with a pervasive Cultural Media - that can be targeted to individuals - can be tailored to mislead specific individuals and thus exert cultural influence.