CCTEX, Tom Betts, screen still |
Computer artist
and programmer Tom Betts will lead a two-hour workshop and presentation
exploring CCTV surveillance inside the architecture of computer games. Using
his CCTEX project - a computer game environment built from
live camera footage of the installation space - Betts will discuss
and demonstrate the technical and conceptual ideas explored within the work.
Using custom software and live camera’s installed into the workshop
space, participants will have the opportunity to experiment with texture
mapping real-time images into the virtual 3D environment. |
Crib and Sift, Bruce McClure |
‘In
a darkened theater, occupied by an audience, the film is metered out and
exposed to light by the jerk and shutter of cinematic mechanisms that modify
the darkened intervals between frames. Cinematic potential becomes active
by the electrical leaps of light through the window into the space of the
brain’s emulsion.’ Simultaneously using two to four modified
16mm film projectors, Bruce McClure intervenes in the trajectory of light
from the source to the spectator, and creates live on-screen cinematic performances.
McClure will present a selection of recent works including sections from
the Crib and Sift series ‘an original ink sneeze printed
four times and developed into an importunate register of film events resisting
bed-time’.
Films
(all Bruce McClure): Crib and Sift (2002-04, projector still-lifes
for four modified projectors and four 16mm film prints made from an ink
sprayed original), Circle Jerks (2002, 15 mins, four projectors
with variable transformers, focus on film plane, coloured gels, digital
delays/graphic equalizers), Presepe (2004, 15 mins, four projectors
fitted with brass plates, focus on the brass inserts, b&w, silent),
Chiodo (2004, 15 mins, four projectors fitted with brass plates,
focus on gates, b&w, digital delays/graphic equalizers); New Work
(2004, 12 mins, two projectors/two 16mm prints, first projector focused
on open gate/second focused on a metal plate insert, colour, digital delays
and graphic equalizers) |