Rosie in Picnic Wonderland

Hacker Camp // Gucci glitch//

All is going well at hacker camp. In two days we have some nice projects to present. Check out the blog at the mediamatic website in the meantime!

//Hacker Camp 2009

10 Day 1 = .begin 20 Mediamatic >= Hackers + Designers 30 PRINT Hackercamp; " Coffee + Beer + Pizza = Gnomes * Dream Dating " 40 IF U WANT SUCCES >= We continue assembly 50 GOTO Picnic on 23-25 September 60 PRINT "Program Day 1 Completed." 70 END I am at Hacker Camp 2009, reporting for Mediamatic here

BEZET registration

Just an excerpt of the visuals I made live for the installation we did @ BEZET (Fort Ruighoek) this weekend. The music is an excerpt from Goto80's a bloodlgitch that I cut down even more rough then it was originally.. /bloody.. glitch

// Bezet @ Fort Ruighoek

This weekend me and born digital will be working on an interactive installation for Bezet (a theater/dance and new media festival) @ Fort Ruighoek, a bomb proof military compound built during 1869-1870. It will be include a greenscreen, musicloops created on location by the visitors, videoclips vj-ed by me and possibly a compression bomb.

Washmountain (2)

Lately I have been very much into Quicktime.. I like to say its one of my favorite softwares. Its has so many glitchy compressions. One of the glitches that I really enjoy is a very easy one I used for a remake of the old Washmountain (music by Extraboy) and also for the accidents in celluloid and pixel.
Use Quicktime 7 pro (don't know about the new one!) and export any video to .avi (Cinepak 256 grays, least quality). The result is a mad acid techno 090909 color surprise! yeahaa!
Even better: fastforward in the HD gets you a green youtube remix!

// Accidents in celluloid and pixels shortlisted for Celluloid Remix Competition

Shortlist Celluloid Remix (alphabetical order) Accidents in celluloid and pixels - Rosa Menkman Ecclesiastes - Casper Smit Het Zwarte Duister - Hugo Huurdeman Kleur Werkers - VJRakesh & MZR Movement - Jata Haan Onzekere Projecties - Darren Carter Paulen - Jurjen Versteeg & Roeland de Bruïne Remixilla - Wouter Haasnoot This means that the video will be shown on the big screen during Netherlands Film Festival in Utrecht. (15.00-17.00 in theater 't Hoogt 1). Exciting!

Compress Process (2)

A remake of Compress Process
I was not to happy how it looked before, something just threw me off, so I decided to play one more compression trick on the video. I hope you enjoY!

EUCLID SPACE

TAD LOWAIT /IS THERE ENOUGH SPACE?
SNL /RELATIVE POSITIONS IN A LINEAR CONTINUUM?
JMP DOIT5 /NO
ISZ I BUFGET /WHAT ABOUT GIVING SOME SPACE?
JMP DOIT6 /YES, MANIFOLDS.
CLA CLL /MORE DIMENSIONS
TAD LOWAIT /HOW FAR DO WE HAVE TO GO?
TAD OOPS /WE NEED ERRORS TO MAKE A BREAK
SZL /A SPACE TO OVERSEE FROM A FAR
JMP .+3 /NEED SOME VELOCITY FOR DISPLACEMENT

IFNDEF VACUUM
/DO NOT FILL MY EUCLID SPACE
/ACCELERATED GRAVITATION. FOR 8/E OR 8/A COORDINATE STRUCTURES
/AN RX01, TRY CAF. BE AWARE FOR \BAROTRAUMA, TRY OFF \WHEN \HYPOXIA, \DECOMPRESSION
/DO NOT USE AN INSTRUCTION WHEN COMFORT DISPOSITION OF COMFORT ZONE

/SOME ARTIFACTS
/ \MATHBF{X}\CDOT\MATHBF{Y} = \SUM_{I=1}^N X_IY_I = X_1Y_1+X_2Y_2+\CDOTS+X_NY_N.
MARGIN=4 /DID WE CATCH THE SPACE GROPING IN TIME?

AC7776=CLL STA RAL
NO_JOSS\FOCAL\MUMPS\TELCOMP
10 INPUT "NEED SPACETIME: ", U$
20 PRINT "HELLO "; U$
30 INPUT "HOW MUCH SPACETIME DO YOU NEED ", N
40 S$ = ""
50 FOR I = 1 TO N
60 S$ = S$ + "*"
70 NEXT I
80 PRINT S$
90 INPUT "DO YOU WANT MORE SPACE TIME? ", A$
100 IF LEN(A$) = 0 THEN GOTO 90
110 A$ = LEFT$(A$, 1)
120 IF A$ = "Y" OR A$ = "y" THEN GOTO 30
130 PRINT "EVERYTHING FOR MEGAMAN"; U$...

Celluloid remix // Accidents in celluloid and pixel.

Goto80 suggested to take away the discoloration, just because the colors feel random (which they actually are since the compression choose the colors for me). I think the result is more coherent and pleasing, but conceptually I like the big break between the black and white part and the colors.
All footage was originally part of the bunch of celluloid films offered by the Filmmuseum Amsterdam for the Celluloid Remix project. The three videos I choose to remix all have particular accidents as subject; A petrol burning in Vlissingen (1917) and two train disasters (1917 and 1926).
The changes in terms of materiality (the grain) of the video are created by different compression accidents (or compression artifacts). Through remixing the celluloid I drew an analogy between the materiality of the celluloid and the digital pixel (I did not use any filters except for lumakey in the middle of the video to make a transition and adjusting the contrast).
Even though, the original footage changed so much it is sometimes hard to recognize. This is because some digital compressions changed the grain of the video into squares while others added particular (random) colors to the video.
This is actually another analogy between celluloid (only in celluloid this happens over a longer time span). In this video I think it becomes clear that compression glitches are a new materiality in the digital realm.

Soundtrack: Goto80 offered me his raw sound material (10 min) created on the ARP 2500, during his residency at WORM, Rotterdam. I edited a little bit to make it shorter.

Accidents in celluloid and pixel got an honorable mention in the Celluloid Remix competition