VIDEO DESIGN + PROGRAMMING
I have many years experience conceiving of site-specific installations of mutli-channel video projection. I work with new media technologies including networked computers, live-feed cameras, OSC controllers, and Isadora, a graphic programming environment that provides interactive control over digital media, with special emphasis on real-time manipulation of digital video.
CIRCULAR 14
The Apotheosis of Aristides
A Dramatic Oratorio in Twenty Tableaux
words & music by Neely Bruce, visuals by Carole Kim
CIRCULAR 14
The Apotheosis of Aristides
A Dramatic Oratorio in Twenty Tableaux
words & music by Neely Bruce, visuals by Carole Kim
CIRCULAR 14
The Apotheosis of Aristides
A Dramatic Oratorio in Twenty Tableaux
words & music by Neely Bruce, visuals by Carole Kim
CIRCULAR 14
The Apotheosis of Aristides
A Dramatic Oratorio in Twenty Tableaux
words & music by Neely Bruce, visuals by Carole Kim
INTERSECTIONS Dance Festival
Holly Rothschild, director
Carole Kim, video projection design
Marlborough School, LA
INTERSECTIONS Dance Festival
Holly Rothschild, director
Carole Kim, video projection design
Marlborough School, LA
Wrinkle In Time
Lizi Watt, director
Carole Kim, video design
Marlborough School, LA
Wrinkle In Time
Lizi Watt, director
Carole Kim, video design
Marlborough School, LA
Wrinkle In Time
Lizi Watt, director
Carole Kim, video design
Marlborough School, LA
CLOUDED SULPHUR (death is a knot undone)
JANIE GEISER director/filmmaker/puppetry design, ERIK EHN playwright
AUTOMATA, LA
CLOUDED SULPHUR (death is a knot undone)
JANIE GEISER director/filmmaker/puppetry design, ERIK EHN playwright
AUTOMATA, LA
AMP (A Missionary Position)
NTARE GUMA MBAHO MWINE
REDCAT, LA
MIXED BAG
POSTNATYAM COLLECTIVE (Shyamala Moorty, Cynthia Ling Lee, Anjali Tata, Sandra Chatterjee
Bootleg Theater, LA
PAMELA Z
BAGGAGE ALLOWANCE
Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
I programmed a patch for a sculptural replica of a baggage x-ray conveyor belt machine that would scan the baggage and place secret illicit objects within.
REDCAT GALA 2011
live-feed video projection design to complement the interior design by artist Choi Jeong Hwa
2D
SITE-SPECIFIC COMMUNITY
COLLABORATIVE WORKSHOPS
Artist residency culminating in a community collaboration at St. John's University, Minnesota that included students, faculty and monks. We worked with written and spoken word, live visuals and sound, generating media with the film/video class, and multi-channel video projections in a space where the community was encouraged to meander.
Coordinator: Bro. Simon-Hoa Phan
Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT 2010
As a NEA-funded Cultural Crossroads Artist-in-Residence, I developed the first iteration of a body of work entitled “In one ear...and in another.” This included the collaborative efforts of numerous writers, artists, musician/composers from the west coast and Montana which culminated in two evenings of multimedia live performance and one 3-month long installation.
“In one ear...” is a sound-driven installation exploring the nature of comprehending simultaneous input in a reductive, focused manner: one input for one ear, another for the other. I was interested in the process of how we engage with and try to make sense of these competing sources. Is it a dialogue in the brain? Or does the brain simply oscillate between the two and process them separately?
[photo: Jeff Van Tine]
listening tubes w/small speakers at either end, hard-panned L/R
Although contemporary life challenges our attention span, I still think it is a choice as to whether to passively succumb to the barrage of information. "In one ear..." takes a concerted look at the multi-tasking brain to inquire whether we can observe and understand it in a different way
[photo: Jeff Van Tine]
[photo: Jeff Van Tine]
The installation was in the High Gallery, a 30' space with vaulted ceiling. Four layers of translucent projection scrims, two live-feed cameras, two listening stations.
[photo: Jeff Van Tine]
For a live recitation of the written compositions, reading/listening tubes designed to isolate each voice with lavalier mics in the tubes sent the voices into the sound system, hard-panned left and right.
Projected text excerpts from the written compositions.
[photo: Jeff Van Tine]
CAROLINE PATTERSON writer/reader
[photo: Jeff Van Tine]
SCOT RAY slide guitar/electronics
[photo: Kurt Keller]
After the live recitation of text, came a composition by PAUL KIKUCHI entitled "Waves" which was intended to "awaken" the space. The amplitude of sound was mapped to the luminosity of the video projections.
[photo: Jeff Van Tine]
PAUL KIKUCHI -"Waves"
ELLEN BURR, "On Pico"
“Ever since I came to LA from KS, I appreciate all of the different cultural groups. Pico Blvd. has been a significant street for me. I've always lived near it, worked at a store on it, found great thrift store hats on Pico, took the bus for a year to get to a job on Pico, etc. I like how all of the different languages & small mom & pop shops are on Pico. The story I was told by my uncle who was born in L.A. in the early 20's is that Pico is really 13th St., but was renamed Pico because of the bad luck 13..." E.B.
[photo: Kurt Keller]
"I superimposed several blocks together as it was over 15 min. to drive from La Cienega to Hoover one way. I enjoy the rhythm created just by reading the names as they came up. You could tell smaller shops because the names come faster, intersections because there is space. I put the overdubbed track on with a bit of echo, as a reminder of the past, and that different shops inhabit the same space." -- E.B.
[photo: Kurt Keller]
CK: I subsequently photographed the signs on Pico Blvd between La Cienega and Hoover. With the help of Jeremy Gould of Helena High School, all the signs were cut out and projected onto the scrims. For the live performance, the dancers, readers and audience read the signage out loud.
[photo: Kurt Keller]
Just before people entered the space, they would trip a motion-detector light which would cast their shadows on a white scrim. This image is captured through live-feed and delayed so that they could later witness themselves entering the space on the scrim at the opposite end of the gallery.
[photo: Jeff Van Tine]
"Molecular Pan" - KADET KUHNE
“This piece explores the constant passage of sound between the left and right ear; this continuous panning encourages active listening to the resultant virtual acoustics with the goal of placing the listener inside a dynamic and immersive sonic space. With the various layered sounds occupying multiple points on the left to right continuum, the individual elements and musical phrases have increased clarity and presence. “
TANYA CALL, dance
[photo: Jeff Van Tine]
KUHNE
spontaneous audience participation
A composition by STEVE PECKMAN juxtaposed the words to ROW, ROW YOUR BOAT with excerpts of selected text from various sources. For the live performance, the dancers recited ROW YOUR BOAT as they "paddled" their way through the space.
[photo: Kurt Keller]
PECKMAN
[photo: Kurt Keller]
PECKMAN
[photo: Kurt Keller]
ENDING jam with SCOT RAY and the dancers2
ENDING jam with SCOT RAY and the dancers
Casa de Artista de Tlaxcala November 2013
Working with musician Carmina Escobar and the Artist Collective of Tlaxcala, we had 24 hrs to devise a multimedia installation that would connect three rooms and the courtyard of this community arts center.
The spaces were wired such that every room could have an impact on the sound or visual scape. Sound was restricted to input through contact mics.
Live-feed camera input would project into adjacent rooms. All participants and performers were encouraged to circulate throughout the duration of the event.
Room #1 was an opportunity to play with shadow and/or image with a live camera. A live-feed from this room could be incorporated into a live video mix two rooms down.
Each room was connected by a door. This is the view from room #1 into room #2.
Jose Luis' graphite speaker.
Room #2 had both a live-feed projection through a hand-sewn scrim of topographical maps. Also, there were objects hooked up to contact mics that fed into the front room audio mix.
At its closing, we all circulated out into the street where the traces of live paintings on the windows of the arts center were cast onto the building across the street.
Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
Residency in multi-media installation and performance
Working with this fabulous group of Associate Artists, while sweating it out in the marshes of Florida, with occasional cool oceanside breaks. Christopher O'Leary, Toby Lee, Jacob Cooper,
Tara Rynders, Aruma, Megan England, Claudia Salamanca and (not pictured) Chad Eby.
As our first site-specific exploration, this amazing grid in the theatre called out to be put to use. Using flashlights and amplified contact mics, the grid was transformed into a knockout sandbox for shadow and percussive sound play.
"PLUTO"
Our ode to the demoted planet.
[photo: Christopher O'Leary]
"PLUTO"
Our ode to the demoted planet.
[photo: Christopher O'Leary]
Multi-screen exploration with live-feed cameras.
Aruma and Tara.
[photo: Christopher O'Leary]
Tara Rynders
[photo: Jacob Cooper]
Aruma and Tara Rynders
[photo: Jacob Cooper]
VSW's Summer Institute is a series of intensive one-week workshops conducted by visiting artists and scholars. I put out a call for people of all disciplines and hidden talents who like to work in image, sound, movement, text, or performance and who share an interest in cross-media experimentation. We explored how inherent properties of existing architecture can provide an interesting basis upon which we could build a media architecture and how that can impact one's perception and experience of the space. Emphasis was placed on a generative process of discovery.
The workshop culminated in a collaborative transformation of the VSW auditorium through a site-specific response to the architecture, resources and history of VSW.
artists: Ema Arnold, Kathy Clem, Phil Edwards, William Fleth, Ray Ray Mitrano, Narin Sheck, Sarah Weiss, Kitty Hubbard and Stephanie Vance
video documentation shot & edited by Phil Edwards
ST. JOHN'S UNIVERSITY
HOLTER MUSEUM
MEXICO
ATLANTIC CTR FOR THE ARTS
Visual Studies Workshop
VIDEOGRAPHY
ANN CARLSON, "Doggie Hamlet"
UCLA Center for the Art of Performance
ANN CARLSON, "Doggie Hamlet"
UCLA Center for the Art of Performance
CARMINA ESCOBAR, "Fiesta Perpetua"
Pacific Standard Time Festival
Echo Park Lake
CARMINA ESCOBAR, "Fiesta Perpetua"
OGURI dance
Pacific Standard Time Festival
Echo Park Lake
Teatro Linea de Sombra: DURANGO 66
Pacific Standard Time Festival
REDCAT, LA
Teatro Linea de Sombra: DURANGO 66
Pacific Standard Time Festival
REDCAT, LA
OKWUI OKPOKWASILI: Poor People's TV Room
REDCAT, LA an CAP UCLA:
OKWUI OKPOKWASILI: Poor People's TV Room
REDCAT, LA an CAP UCLA:
OKWUI OKPOKWASILI: Poor People's TV Room
REDCAT, LA an CAP UCLA:
NAO BUSTAMANTE
Variedades @ The Mayan Theater
PST Festival
Grupo Cultural Yuachkani: Discurso de Promocion
PST Festival
REDCAT, LA
RAFA ESPARZA: cumbre: look as far as you can see in every direction—north and south, east and west
MOCA-LA
PST Festival
RAFA ESPARZA: cumbre: look as far as you can see in every direction—north and south, east and west
MOCA-LA
PST Festival
I have many years experience documenting live performance of every genre including dance, theater, music, and multimedia productions. I document for the STUDIO FESTIVAL and NOW FESTIVAL at REDCAT, UCLA Center for the Art of Performance, Live Arts Exchange, PST Festival, RADAR Festival, Angel City Jazz Festival, Radiolab and many others.
GRAPHIC + WEB DESIGN
GRAPHIC: CD and promotional design
Cryptogramophone, Venice, CA
Don Ferrone Music, Los Angeles, CA
Atavistic Records, Chicago, IL
Little Brother Records, Eugene, OR
Krown Pocket, Los Angeles, CA
Sheetal Gandhi, Venice, CA
WEB DESIGN:
Elegant, efficiently designed sites that reflect the artist's sensibilities and showcase the content while emphasizing clarity and readily accessible navigation.
sample sites:
conniesamaras.com