contextual connections- OFFF 2007

DJ Krush visuals

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Sperm-ND/Clark

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and yet again another fab time at OFFF in may this year. The highlights for me were no-domain, an audio-visual, motion graphics, live visuals, designers collective based in barcelona, full of crazy live drawing, puppets, stop frame animtions, pure filmed visuals without lots of the horror of stereoscopic-tunnel-fractals-mash up special effects, purely devised and created from scratch.these guys have helped me so much in a puppet vj project with students earlier this year. i like the fact that they don't like to call themselves vjs to disassociate themselves with the generic vj scene, they are as much of a live act as the music, with mini sets, be it of 2D puppets,zoetrope, live drawing, anything lo-fi. sometimes digital technology is used simply to get their work on the screen with live feed from drawing. from their website; "they use their full creativity in the shape of distorted lo-tech psycodelic visual pop" sonar,2006. their work poses questions for me about live perfromance in a music gig, when the traditions of screen based concert visuals is viewed alongside watching visual artists performing live, through using low tech sets mixed live with real time and pre recorded film. how and when do you keep the attention on music as opposed to the art and vice versa at the right times? fusing art forms adds a multi-sensory interactive arts dimension to the concert experience, that places like the ICA have been staging for a while now.

dave clarke, visuals

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i have been insanely inspired by their approach in my teaching (low fi is great as schools just don't have the equipment and it also shows the value in mixing high and low) and for my own live visuals work for gigs, it was a pleasure to meet up with them (now that's one bonus of myspace networking) at OFFF. in a digital saturated age, it was refreshing to meet guys who still have their pencil cases at close hand....

contextual connections- OFFF 2006-tmema

wow!! OFFF Barcelona 2006 made me wake up to a breathtaking world of shut-up-and-watch-the-futures-here experiments and design interactions with often mind blowing use of digital technology, but with a firm hand still using paper scissors glue too. this 3 full days and only £30 festival/conference of international practice billed as post-digital creation culture included the utterly superb zach liebermann and golan levin,known as tmema, including messa di voce an 'audiovisual performance & installation for voice and interactive media' shown below;
it also featured their live performance closing the event on the saturday night, drawn. they had an installation as an exhibit you could play with during the conference, drawing with ink, and then moving shapes generating sounds, shown in photo above. Full over view of my experience of OFFF 2006, can be found in my pdf DOWNLOAD FILE