Disorder, work in progress…

23 Feb

Disorder is the collision between Kevin Ramseier, dancer & comedian, and François Moncarey, programmer.

Kevin has been educated in the “Conservatoire of Geneva” and  from “Le Studio des bains”, is found of new scenic expressions. François, was educated at “Les Gobelins’, creates video generated by algorithms inspired by the existing movements in nature.
Together, with a transmitter and an infrared camera, they create “Disorder”, a performance mixing contemporary dance and generative video.

Through an audacious choreography, come to assist to the fluctuating mood of an individual with a bipolar behavior, switching from the energy of madness to the most total emptiness…

Here is the beginning of their work in progress, some processing sketches tests, they use memo MSAfluid and toxi library !

Robert Seidel – Chiral

22 Feb

A chiral phenomenon or structure is some weird-ass thing that is not identical to its mirror image. You have to admit the concept sounds cool, even though you wouldn’t immediately understand it. Inspired by this scientific idea, German Robert Seidel went and created a very unique motion graphics piece using among other things projection onto a paper sculpture.

Equally impressive works can be found on Seidel’s Vimeo channel.

The bornless spirit

21 Feb

Larry Carlson takes us on a journey between the spirit world and the physical world, filled with esoteric symbols, space men, light beings and glowing mandalas.

“taking drugs to make music to take drugs to” – psychedelia in the 80’s and early 90’s with Spacemen 3

20 Feb

While we witness a little return of interest towards psychedelic culture since a few years, it was quite rare that popular subculture would refer to psychedelia in those bleak mid 80’s (at least before rave would bring back rainbows, bubbles and acid). Still a few groups like Psychic TV and Spacemen 3 kept the endless trance inducing jams and the quest for musical (et al.) mind exploration going.

Enter The Void

19 Feb

Watching Gaspar Noe’s new film is a death and re-birth experience. definitely the most psychedelic film I’ve ever seen, it’s like going into the mind of another person, and experiencing this conciseness change, from normal to a full-on DMT trip, to a near death experience an beyond. The photography and artistic design are absolutely incredible, I have no idea how most of the scenes were shot.

 

 

 

The Beaded game of Death and Rebirth

18 Feb

Indian Animator Ishu Patel was making some highly metaphysical, highly imaginative and exquisitely done videos back in the 1970’s. “The Bead Game”, created by Patel in 1978, is a never ending chainof death and rebirth, of things flowing into and out of one another, falling apart, and creating new life. A beaded version of the game of existence.

(Link: Rea. Thanks!)

The External World by David Oreilly

17 Feb

When people of the online generation die, I bet the bardos they go through look like the brain-shredding mayhem that is The External World.

edit: The Vimeo copy has been turned private, because “Canal+ are playing it on TV and need people to tune in” – whatever that means! Very strange.. For now, watch it from the link below:
The External World

Barry Hale

16 Feb

Watch the video here

PHASIA: a Video artist Barry Hale and videographer Jane Mulchrone set out to find a physical form of communication between camera operator and dancer by creating a video feedback loop, physically interrupting its cyclical feed and responding to each others’ movements to bring about coherent images from the chaos of the feedback field. Music by andy cox. This video is available with many others on Critical Mass DVD available from http://stores.ebay.co.uk/threshold-st…

2011 Hyundai Elantra: Deprogramming

15 Feb

For once an honest brainwashing session! Whales, didgeridoo, sitar, a spirit animal.. you know, the usual car commercial stuff!

High Society Exhibition

14 Feb

The Wellcome Collection is currently holding an exhibition on mind altering drugs in history and culture. The exhibition has been showing since November and will be on until the 27th of February. If we were in London, we would definitely check it out!

(Link: Moris. Thanks!)