Merce cunningham, John cage and others

E-motion is a software that incorporates videos and it carries effects that make projectional performances more easier to work with. So basically in the video the filmmakers are again experimenting with the projections effects and music. Well in the beginning, i was somehow trying make a connection to what Merce cunningham and John cage were doing in thier times. It was merging the sound and dance in a single piece. cage's work is itself a piece of great art and so were the cunningham school of performance. Watching the documentary in the class, many of our fellows found the sound and the dance as a contradiction to each an other in the particular piece. I think it is because we don't understand specifically whats cage's sounds wanted to say, or we may don't wana know about it. and if we do , may be dont have the certain level of understanding to absorb what he is trying to communicate. I remember the first time we saw cage performing the sound piece No.(something)...we were literally making fun out of his voices. I believe its just we dont understand it....and we dont have what it takes to understand cage, then one possesses no right to mark is at Not-art.
For those of you(including me) who dont know what merce and cage were doing...may be its just a first step to absorb this video, it works in the same pattern but with a diffrent agenda.Here the music is more understandable to understand the idea.

Here it is http://vimeo.com/9234516

Adrien M / Claire B

French filmmakers Adrien M / Claire B,

Please check these videos

http://vimeo.com/7878518
http://vimeo.com/3528787
http://vimeo.com/3300329

I found all of them really interesting and entertaining way of performance, the first is the one in which two subjects engage in a surreal but highly entertaining dance through the warped fabric of space and time, made all the more wonderful with music from Beirut. 

this is how they explain the effect
Just to explain : we have not invented this effect, we have just developed it to work on GPU at 60fps as a Quartz Composer plug in, it is based on sculpting of a 3D texture.
It's made with a custom Quartz Composer plug-in that transform a video stream in a 3D texture.
It can run at 60fps live at lower resolution (512x512)

AFAIK the effect was discovered accidentally by a photograph called Jacques Henri Lartigues at the beginning of the 20th century (in 1912 to be precise) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Henri_Lartigue, with this famous photo : bokeh.fr/blog/photographes/la-voiture-deformee-de-jacques-henri-lartigue/
After it's just technical evolutions : photography->video->realtime video
The funny part is that rolling shutter of many camera is not a feature, it's a pretty annoying effect...

And the rest of two videos are performing with the projection.....now this remind me of how joan jonas works with her projection, i remember when we were shown the documentary and i went crazy about the idea of performing with the projection itself. This guy is pretty much doing the same stuff but using an affective method. Its not that i am comparing the both, no no nooo its not possible as one can't compare Gaga with Merce. and so an artist like joan whose practice is such unique that it is not comparable with other artists...But its more like im making a link between the two.

Michael Grab

Land artist Michael Grab creates astonishing towers and orbs of balanced rocks using little more than patience and an astonishing sense of balance. Grab says the art of stone balancing has been practiced by various cultures around the world for centuries and that he personally finds the process of balancing to be meditative.
 For me balancing these stones look more than art to me, it was as if its a complete skill and acquire so much of patience...its so inspiring for me, its more like meditating ur self