Art
The Simpsons vs. Family Guy | Sep 2011
I have developed a method for resynthesizing existing videos using material from any other video(s). This process starts by learning a database of objects that appear in the set of videos to synthesize from. The target video to resynthesize is then broken into objects in a similar manner, but also matched to objects in the database. What you get is a resynthesis of the video that appears as beautiful disorder.
Responsive Ecologies | Dec 2010 – Jan 2011
captincaptin and Parag K Mital exhibited Responsive Ecologies at the Watermans between 6th December 2010 and the 21st January 2011. The installation was in the form of a 360 degrees multi-screened projection or CAVE (Cave Automatic Virtual Environment). Visitors to the exhibition would enter the CAVE through a passageway leading from the gallery entrance. All four sides of the CAVE were back projected with each side connecting to form a large continuous projection. The presence of people within the space would be tracked and used to deconstruct and interlace the video in response to their movement. The video documentation below was taken from the installation (throughout this video the camera is panning around the space in order to record all sides of the CAVE).
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The Trial | Jun 2010
A collaboration between Christos Michalakos, Lin Zhang, and myself, ‘The Trial’ was presented as a live laptop set for the Dialogues Festival in Edinburgh’s Voodoo Rooms, as a support act for Rune Grammofon artist Humcrush
Calibration | Apr 2010
A collaboration between Christos Michalakos and myself, ‘Calibration’ was the continuation of an audiovisual synaesthetic duo exploring raw symmetry with digitally-controlled analog aesthetics between sound and visuals.
Memory | 2009-2010
‘Memory’ is an augmented installation of a neural network by Parag K Mital & Agelos Papadakis employing hand blown glass, galvanized metal chain, projection, cameras; 1.5m x 2.5m x 3m. Ghostly images of faces appear as recorded movie clips within neural-shaped hand-blown glass pieces. As one begins to look at the neurons, they notice the faces as their own, trapped as disparate memories of a neural network. Filmed and installed for the Athens Video Art Festival in May 2010 in Technopolis, Athens, Greece. The venue is a disused gas factory converted art space. Also seen at Kinetica Art Fair, Ambika P3, London, UK, 2010; Passing Through Exhibition, James Taylor Gallery, London, UK, 2009; Interact, Lauriston Castle, Edinburgh, UK, 2009.
Colony | Summer 2010
COLONY is a multi-faceted networked and interdisciplinary platform for exploring creative ideas. The idea behind this particular incarnation is that a microscope video feed is processed for numerous tracking parameters and further influencing the resulting re-projected visuals. Live audio is also processed based on these same parameters. Additional performers can “plug-in” by receiving the tracking information, or simply by viewing the other performers or visuals.
This unadulterated (and very rough) clip was initiated at the Edinburgh HackLab on 17 Sept 2010 with Shiori Usui on Live Instruments, Sarah Roberts on Microscope, and Parag K Mital on Audio/Visual processing (other clips feature Owen Green also on Audio processing).
X-RAY | Jun 2010
X-RAY invites participants to interact with a seemingly broken television installed as part of a 1970′s living room. Television signals are affected by the surrounding audio textures in the room as well as a novel measure of attention invoked while a user views the television.
First installed as part of Neverzone on 10 June 2010 (pictures
Polychora | Feb 2010
Polychora stands for a 4 dimensional polytope, a connected or closed figure of lower dimesnional polytopal elements. These elements are thought of as the impulses of the piece and their combinations are intricately explored and decomposed in order to create a soundscape of particles. As an exploration of synaesthesia, the visuals are created as an audio-reactive algorithm based on brightness, panning, texture, noisiness, pitch, and their combinations. By combining the amorphous space of possible impulses and the range of sound textures, the polychoron takes a visual shape altered by the different dimensions of texture.
This piece was presented at the Soundings Festival on February 6th and 7th, 2010 (curated by Andrew Connor).
Colony | Summer 2010
COLONY is a multi-faceted networked and interdisciplinary platform for exploring creative ideas. The idea behind this particular incarnation is that a microscope video feed is processed for numerous tracking parameters and further influencing the resulting re-projected visuals. Live audio is also processed based on these same parameters. Additional performers can “plug-in” by receiving the tracking information, or simply by viewing the other performers or visuals. Featuring Sarah Roberts, Shiori Usui, Owen Green, and myself.