Projection Design for 'Geotopia' Sound Design: Jimmy Power Courtesy of Nottinghamshire County Youth Arts

Urban Projections “Urban Projections is the work of multimedia artist Rebecca Smith. Fusing hand-crafted art-forms with digital technologies, her work seeks to surprise and engage audiences with its playful tone and interactivity. She creates unique digital experiences, constantly looking for ways to push the boundaries of her discipline. Her work has been presented in such prestigious surroundings as The Saatchi Gallery, The Royal Albert Hall, Tate St Ives and arts centre Nottingham Contemporary. As Smith would state though, her work is equally at home on the streets and in unusual outdoor locations.” Source text: http://www.splicefestival.com/line-up/urban-projections/

Urban Projections are performing the the Splice Festival 2017 in London

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Words: Maura McDonnell

Lads this is a great series of documentaries. There is an aspect from various creative forms i particularly liked the one on Illustration and the possiblities that can be used in After effects with it, I also like the one on designing Trainers ( Runners) but thats for another day ! 

Mark

Jennifer Steinkamp is an installation artist who works with  video and new  digital media to explore ideas about architectural space, motion, and perception. Often times her art incorporates historical or mythical themes. Her work first caught my attention with “The Wreck of the Dumaru”. A 4 screen projection piece, that is perhaps, a homage to her uncle in World War 1. whose boat was caught out to sea for a total of 24 days!

“Jennifer Steinkamp's great uncle Ernest Hedinger was a seaman on the Dumaru during WWI, 1918. The ship carrying weapons and fuel was struck by lightning scarcely a couple hours outside of Guam. Powerful currents carried the helpless lifeboats out to sea. There were not enough provisions in the over crowded boat. Only 19 years old, Uncle Ernest died after 13 days. Out of desperation he had been drinking seawater, which caused him to imagine a nail stuck in his head. Soon after his death, two of the shipmates were cannibalized. The crew was trapped out at sea for 24 days total.

The installation consisted of 4 projections in sync to create a giant animated seascape panorama across 2 walls of the gallery. The imagery consisted of two ocean animations combined, one looking from a view high above the ocean, and the other from down in the water.”

-- FROM THE ARTIST'S WEBSITE: 

Words: Cian Murphy

Useful links to examples of visuals being used in music concert and audio-visual show contexts, with video embeds for quick look and hear.

Adult Swim’s television show “Off the Air”, where they take a basic theme each week, combining music and art videos, usually with heavy use of data-moshing to segway between clips. This episode focuses on shapes.

Words: Andrew Kerr

Visualizing Culture - creating contemporary data visualisations of historical visual music films and abstract film and animation, for example, Oskar Fischinger, Norman McLaren, John Whitney

Oskar Fischinger - Composition in Blue http://data.zzzbase.com/animation/1935--Komposition-in-Blau--Oskar-Fischinger--Cubes-on-Blue/

John Whitney - Catalogue http://data.zzzbase.com/animation/1961--Catalog--John-Whitney--Circles-B/

Norman McLaren - Lines Horizontal

John Whitney- A Personal Search For the Complementarity of Music and Visual Art (1992)