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Portfolio

I perform live visuals and design video projections for music, dance and theater.

Projections & Visuals 2012 reel from Dan Winckler on Vimeo.

Music: “Compressoratorer” by Lucky Highstepper, aka Jonny Wilson from Eclectic Method.

Bio

Dan Winckler has performed or designed projections at MoMA PS1, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the American Museum of Natural History, Eyebeam, the Tank, { R } a k e, EyeWash, the Austin Museum of Digital Art, the MenschMeerMedien Festival 2007 in Bremen, Germany, and the International Symposium of Electronic Art in 2006. He is the founder/partner of Really Useful Media, a Brooklyn-based production company. He has collaborated with a wide range of artists including Benton-C Bainbridge, Bit Shifter, Koosil-ja, Glomag, and Lance Blisters. He is also a contributing developer to Open Emu, a set of tools for “virtual console bending”, i.e., live manipulation and deconstruction of old school game consoles including the NES, Sega, and Game Boy.

Past productions and performances

  • One Step Beyond – with Import/Export, The Rapture DJs, and Prefuse 73. February, 2012.
  • One Step Beyond – with Dam-Funk – Hayden Planetarium, American Museum of Natural History, New York, May, 2009. Live visualist.
  • X-Ray – audiovisual performance with Glomag – New York, April, 2009.
  • AMODA Digital Showcase – Austin, TX, March 2009. Live visualist.
  • 8static with the bands Starscream and Cheap Dinosaurs – Philadelphia, PA, February 2009.
  • Pulsewave hosted by This Spartan Life, as live machinimatographer and actor, New York City, July 2008.
  • ONE SARA SHOW – comedy show starring Sara Schaefer, Ars Nova, June 2008.
  • five day residency – Experimental Television Center, Owego, NY, April 2008.
  • AMODA Digital Showcase – Austin, TX, March 2008.
  • {R}ake – New York City, January 2008.
  • Ultrahang Festival – Budapest, Hungary, April 2007.
  • echo::system – multimedia dance show, Eyebeam Atelier, New York City, December 2007.
  • Brother Islands – as actor, multimedia play, Eyebeam Atelier, November 2007.
  • MenschMeerMedien Festival – Bremen, Germany, September 2007.
  • Samita Sinha – concert, New York City, September 2007.
  • Pulsewave – New York City, September 2007.
  • Lance Blisters – concert, Anarchist Book Fair, New York City, April 2007.
  • Pixelache – networked performance, Helsinki, Finland, March 2007.
  • Jamarama Live! Kidsfest – touring children’s music show, Fall 2006.
  • AMODA Digital Showcase – video installation, Austin, TX, December 2006.
  • Blip Festival – The Tank, New York City, November 2006.
  • the Bunker – Subtonic, New York City, May 2006.
  • David Linton’s New York 5.0 – celebration and benefit, Tonic, New York City, March 2006.
  • The International Chiptunes Resistance – The Tank, New York City, October 2005.
  • NoizFloor – David Linton’s hausofouch, New York City, May 2005.
  • Eyewash – Remote Lounge, New York City, May 2005.
  • Dogs Blood Rising – Lucky Cat, New York City, February 2005.
  • {R}ake – M Shanghai Den, New York City, January 2005. (debut).
  • Neutrino Video Projects – as improvisational videographer, video improv show, HBO US Comedy Arts Festival, Aspen, CO, March 2004.