May 2009
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November 2008
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Watchthis is the first take of the location shoot mentioned earlier in the blog ( http://cribrosa.tumblr.com/ )
it features Adelina Larsson and was shot by David Corbet on a little Canon 3ccd miniDV cam (hence the low quality)
we went back and shot it again with an HDV camera and are working on that footage.
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distraction
on thursday morning i went down to the basement to find the laundry.
in the basement there was an amazing old car turntable. used to redirect a car to fit into a parking space that it otherwise wouldn’t be able to get into.
and it was made of wood slats bound together with sheets of metal.
no motor to drive it. just pushing it manually made it spin slowly.
beautiful simple...
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was wondering today if really all i’m doing is trying to induce a really controlled and large central visual field defect…
actually, i don’t mind that idea so much. an area that can’t be seen and is mapped/tracked according to the audience head position. and ultimately reduces to reveal something.
we talked a lot more about revealing today as well. as a way of...
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it's only the beginning
things unfolded a little more today.
spent some time looking at the footage we shot yesterday. trying to get a sense of how it might appear on a screen.
thought about a curved screen - half a circle only. and about a work that runs without interaction. maybe it’s simpler than that and give people more choice about what they see but still pushes to the extent of the periphery.
we...
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already built
the Advanced Visualisation and Interaction Environment has been developed at the university of nsw and seems ideal for this project.
although the tracking system does high res volumetric tracking, i wonder about how head movement best correlates with eye position - would it be necessary to have eye movement tracking or not. i think not but hard to know. to complete this project there will...
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part of the process
i’d forgotten.
about the practice of not knowing. forgotten that i can apply it here as well.
allowing. not pushing. patience. presence.
process.
despair
some after work beer drinking revealed that all the participants in this project have doubts about their work, about their craft, about their art.
very australian.
un-un-australian.
nodal dances
we’ve been talking about an overall structure - that the work has a duration but that within that discrete time frame there are a number of possibilities for what may occur.
i imagine that there is a branching structure that has nodes where different footage is projected (and sound played) based on the direction the audience member is looking (or where their head is turned). these nodes...
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thought there was going to be some useful information on the Crevice blog about moving images across perpendicular screens… no such luck, or at least my quick perusal didn’t yield any results.
i do remember discussing it during the project though, just can’t remember what came up. remind me simon.
there is some useful information about projectors and size/range issues.
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four sides and what's it about
dilemma one: projecting onto surfaces perpendicular to each other will cause problems with a body moving from one surface to another. the ugly wrap / change in perspective if the projected image is to move from one surface to another.
dilemma two: how important is dance to this project? why dance? why the body? what is the choreography? (i may just be having a little panic here after last...
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practicalities
as an interactive i need to find a way to effectively track where the audience is looking. the ideal system would be something that can track eye movements as well as head movements. at the same time - if it’s a walk in space it needs to track gross movement as well, to register where in the space the audience is.
the university of cambridge has some great info and clips of visual tracking...
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talking
today, as the introduction to the workshop, was a chance for everyone to talk about the project they were beginning and the background to their artistic practice in dance/film. this included showing excerpts of material from previous works.
cordelia beresford showed a 5 minute work which she envisioned as a gallery projection and that pretty much all the participants agreed stood one it’s...
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report
thoughts on what i’m trying to do over the coming days.
developing the installation through parallel streams: content, structure, technical, ‘vision’
linked through the idea of working with peripheral vision - as it is used/not used by an audience member, as it applies to our perception of the world, and how it can have an affect on a choreographic process.
here is the...
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something to remember
also tonight there was a moment where a smaller group of us were discussing youtube and online video.
it reminded me about take away shows and shoot the player, where they go and capture musicians performing their songs in an informal way.
my favourite (at the moment) is a recent one featuring Kele from Bloc Party (and another bloc party fella - got no idea about his name - sorry fella) where...
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pre workshop drinks
tonight most of the participants met at the Drill Hall. David Hinton spoke a little about his work and his approaches and thoughts about dance film. one of the interesting points he made was that when he started making dance films there really wasn’t a field that defined this genre. and in the 20 years since it has grown and become more and more defined (yet he still feels that...
October 2008
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documentation for this brief project
this tumblelog is to document the project i’m undertaking for the ReelDance Dance Screen Laboratory with David Hinton.
nothing to see yet ;)