Research ideas behind the Installation
Research
Because the nature of my final project which is an installation based on an video audiovisual piece, i decided to research the main people involved in the scene today,The list vjs begins with one of the finest vjs in the world today Skoltz_Kolgen's
Acclaimed live AV show Flüux:/terminal, hot from being performed at Mutek in Montreal, Transmediale in Berlin, Némo in Paris, Cimatics in Brussels and Netmage in Bologna. Signed to Mutek Records, the label of the World renowned electronica music festival in Montreal, Skoltz_Kolgen are the Canadian multimedia act comprising Dominique Skoltz and Herman Kolgen. Rigorous and raucous audiovisual creators, the duo's artistic mission is to explore the integral linkages between sound and image. And in pursuit of this, they have created many installation works over the last decade and made the award-winning experimental feature film Silent Room.
Flüux:/terminal is an award-winning two screen, two laptop show that the French Canadian artists have dubbed 'diptyque retinal'. As with all their carefully researched and realised work, this performance first establishes a point of contact between sound and image, and then fuelled by the bipolar tensions between hearing and seeing, pushs the dialogue between the two elements one step further, creating a dramatic synaesthetic journey. After recently touring China and Mexico with the Mutek team, this Optronica Lab performance is Skoltz_Kolgen’s first ever performance in the UK.
In the early '90s, solo multimedia artist Vicki Bennett began making audio CDs and radio, before adopting the People Like Us name and developing her trademark audiovisual collages using sampling and found footage. In her AV shows recontextualised sounds and images from throughout the 20th century take on new lives, creating a labyrinthine universe where Bennett alchemically transforms the past into the present, re-interoperating our current relationship with technology and delightfully parodying both past and present European and American culture.
She has performed her work internationally at venues including the San Francisco Art Institute and UC Davis in California, Walker Art Centre in Minneapolis, the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the ICA, the Queen Elisabeth Hall and the Tate Modern - where she performed as part of Christian Marclay's 2004 Sounds of Christmas installation. Recent work includes Resemblage, a short film reworking The Lux's film archive; a film/installation with the Sonic Arts Network; a touring gallery film/video piece called Magic In The Air in collaboration with the Prelinger Archives, a web-only album for the online avant-garde repository Ubuweb, and DO or DIY - her experimental arts radio show on the freeform New York radio station WFMU.Bennett's new live set, which will premiere at Optronica Lab was created as part of a Grants For Arts Bursary received from the Arts Council England
A collective of 3D animators, motion graphics designers and live VJs lead by
Ken Sawamiya aka Ken-S, Tokyo based TomoGrapher are one of the leading and most pro-active VJ teams in Japan.
The team, including Psy-men, Shimamu, Zoe and Art Takeshi, have produced work for Sony, Nike, TDK and Japanese telecoms giant NTT DoCoMo. They closely work with the techno group Share The Fantasy, especially for audiovisually recorded work. Ken-S is also the man behind the VJ project Pixelcraft, who release the VJ software Pixplayer Lite and compilations of copyright free visual material called Pixdiscs. He also organises the Tokyo VJ nights called PIX, where VJs perform head-to-head hip-hop MC style
Ed Cookson’s group of animators, designers and 3D modellers, The Sancho Plan emerged out of the creative counter currents of the mid 90’s computer games industry and now produce a stunning variety of progressive audiovisual works. With a wide range of collaborators, the core team of Cookson, Nick Sweetman and Ed Niblett combine animation, narrative storytelling, sound design and music to produce live interactive AV shows, animated movies and online experiences.
Breathing musical life into the characters of tokyoplastic.com, Cookson’s work with its founder Drew Cope created Drum Machine, a widely screened musical animation which won the people's choice award at the Sundance online film festival 2004 and Best 3D Animation at the Flash Film Festival New York 2004. The Sancho Plan VJ regularly in London and are currently collaborating with Coldcut on a series of interactive music toys as well as producing an animated kids TV show.
At Optronica Lab, the group preview their all-new live AV show; in which a cast of animated characters are taken on musical adventures. Controlling the virtual performers via custom-built software and interfaces such as drum pads, Cookson and Niblet are joined on stage by audio artist Lewis Sykes.
The public will themselves be able to play with The Sancho Plan's audiovisual characters the following day in a one-off installation at the NFT.