Zimoun’s art makes use of motors and other machine hardware en masse to create some strange and quite elegant installations.

Dir: Marc Isaacs / UK / 2001

Filmmaker Marc Isaacs sets himself up in a London tower block lift. The residents come to trust him and reveal the things that matter to them creating a humorous and moving portrait of a vertical community.

For more of Marcs work visit: http://www.secondrundvd.com/release_isaacs.php

This is just amazing. Visuals done right!!

@Transmediale Berlin

Alva Noto (Carsten Nicolai) of Raster Noton performs at Club Transmediale 09 in Berlin where they premiered their new rhythm_screen. Visuals were produced using Derivative’s TouchDesigner and are formed from the TouchDesigner UI. derivative.ca

We played there at the same time!

‘I describe what I do as graphic composing,’ nicolai reveals.
‘I’m always thinking in polarities, like yin and yang. I look for visualization
tools that create certain images and then build archives of images generated by sound.’

Pretty site specific typography installation

Beautiful song.

Chunky Move is one of the best modern dance company i’ve seen.  From the site: “Mortal Engine is a new dance-video-music-laser performance using movement and sound responsive projections to portray an ever-shifting, shimmering world in which the limits of the human body are an illusion. Crackling light and staining shadows represent the most perfect or sinister of souls. Kinetic energy fluidly metamorphoses from the human figure into light image, into sound and back again. Choreography is focused on movement of unformed beings in an unfamiliar landscape searching to connect and evolve in a constant state of becoming. Veering between moments of exquisite cosmological perfection and grotesque evolutionary accidents of existence, we are driven forward by the reality of permanent change.”  More at Fabrik Project

‘The Projector Tank is a not-for-profit, independently powered, community mobile cinema. Its mummy is probably ‘alternative film distribution networks’. Its daddy is probably ‘renewable energy practice and education’. There might also have been a postman called ‘recovering and occupying public space’ but he is more like a weird uncle we don’t talk about that much. It was conceived somewhere late in 2005 and helped through birth by Felix, Beth, Sylvie and Jonny. It started out life in East Anglia, went on holiday to Romania in Spring 2007 and is now primarily based in London.

All screenings are free to watch. Typical venues include school playgrounds, village greens, parks and common land, supermarket car parks and warehouse walls. We are always on the lookout for new spaces – hearing about an interesting space where you think we could put something on is as welcome as is as a sure-thing venue.

The rig is vehicle mounted – it consists of a long throw digital projector, digital mixer, 1K sound system, VHS DVD and laptop sources, a collapsible screen and ‘all weather’ awning with a capacity for about thirty people. It is powered by solar panels charging a large battery bank and fully charged we can show films for eight hours straight.’

The Projector Tank is a very similar project to Outdoor AV. A grassroots communal non profit project. I think we differ in the kind of films we show i.e. ares is more art and shorts based. Plus we are using our format to showcase emerging artists.