Wednesday, 12 December 2012

Adrien M / Claire B



French filmmakers Adrien M / Claire B,

Please check these videos

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.

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