Redcat update
2007-10-29 by (i think you can figure that out)
I met today with Paul Tzanetopoulos, the video artist who will be doing the visuals for Analoglive, for a demo of what's he's been designing for the performance. Photos: http://www.ear-group.net/paul_red1.jpg http://www.ear-group.net/paul_red2.jpg http://www.ear-group.net/paul_red3.jpg Each performer will be lit by a remote-controlled Koloris RGB multicolored LED light fixture and will have a small video camera on them. These feeds are all sent to Paul's switcher where he'll be processing them to build six different composite images which will be shown against the six individual screens (five scrims, one hung behind each performer, and one large image which will be projected onto the main film screen which is against the back wall of the theater) There are a number of visual treatments in play including feedback, mixing the camera feeds, superimposing heavily-processed video footage taken of large schools of fish, even signals from ancient Pong game controllers (which you can see at the right of the desk in photo 1 above). The third photo shows the effect of washing the area with red light projected by the Koloris light pods. You can see Paul sitting at the desk in the second photo. Those of you who live or have visited Los Angeles have seen some of Paul's public art installations, including the Gateway Pylon Project at LAX: a kinetic light installation incorporated into twenty-six large-scale translucent glass towers. Eleven of these towers are 6' in diameter and range from 25 to 60 feet tall and fifteen towers are 12' diameter by 100' tall located at the Los Angeles International Airport gateway traffic intersection exchange. They're synchronized and computer-driven, with the programming controlling lighting displays, synchronous lighting activities and color arrays: http://www.publicartinla.com/sculptures/lax_gateway1.jpeg