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work-in-progress documentary on Bill Etra
Posted on February 21st, 2008 by dan.
Categories: visualists, videoartists, artist, hackers, friends, history.
Benton-C Bainbridge has been shooting interviews with Bill Etra for years and, for the past year and a half, has been assembling a documentary about his life and work. The “sampler cut” below highlights some of the more recent interview footage interspersed with some of Bill’s work over the years. If you don’t know of Bill, he is a pioneer in video engineering, design and performance, and one of the handful of people who can rightly be said to have been the first to do live visuals. This Wired article from 2000 gives a pretty good background.
new VJ reel up
Posted on February 11th, 2008 by dan.
Categories: video, live visuals.
I’ve updated the visuals page to highlight some of my latest work. Suggestions for improvement would be welcomed. I used Jeroen Wijering’s excellent free FLV player, which I highly recommend for those who like to host your own video instead of using a commercial site like Blip.tv or Vimeo.
And to return to the previous post, well, should I use the living signs as my visualist name or stick with Dan Winckler? F2F feedback on the subject has been mostly positive with one important exception (Emily).
Bruce Sterling keynote at the LIFT conference
Posted on February 7th, 2008 by dan.
Categories: watching, speech, futurism.
Crappy compression, good content. Bruce Sterling speaks about the present and teh future.
possible VJ name for yours truly
Posted on February 6th, 2008 by dan.
Categories: naming.
I have found it very difficult to choose a “VJ name” for myself. A couple weeks ago a name came to me — I won’t say how so as not to color your opinions — and I’d like to get your thoughts on it. A simple “ilikeit” or “idontlikeit” in the comments will suffice, unless you feel compelled to explore its deep reservoirs of meaning. The possible VJ/visualist name is:
the living signs
Thank you.
Video: last week’s show with DJ Olive
Posted on February 5th, 2008 by dan.
Categories: video, musician, performing, nyc, improvisation, live visuals.
The video below is a brief excerpt of my 35 minute set with DJ Olive at {R}ake last week. Olive played a beautiful ambient set. I did live visuals on all four screens, mixing together new HD footage (@800×450) shot with my new HV20, mixed in a custom application built in Jitter with the v001 system. vade graciously recorded my set and I’ve posted the whole thing to the Internet Archive.
Alternate versions and downloads
Upcoming show: visuals with DJ Olive at {R}ake
Posted on January 23rd, 2008 by dan.
Categories: performing, nyc, music, live visuals.
I am excited to announce that next week I’m doing visuals with DJ Olive, a genre-defining and -defying musician, at {R}ake, a performance series that brings together musicians and visualists in novel collaborations, in the intimate, delicious setting of Monkeytown. All the details are at rakeav.com and below. Reservations are highly recommended as {R}ake always sells out.
{R}ake at Monkeytown
Weds, Jan 30, 8 to 10:30 pm
58 North 3rd Street
(bet. Kent & Wythe)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
718 384-1369
tickets $7 ($10 minimum — the food and drinks are great)
DJ Olive
listen and download tracks at
http://www.myspace.com/theaudiojanitor
-and-
http://www.theagriculture.com/store.html
Bent Mario video
Posted on January 22nd, 2008 by dan.
Categories: hacking, art.
My brother’s probably already seen this on BoingBoing, but I wanted to post this video here for my parents. Having got themselves a Wii for Christmas, I hope they’ll appreciate the technical side of this hack as well as its artistry and nostalgia-hacking glee.
Fog 1
Posted on January 14th, 2008 by dan.
Categories: connections.
Beautiful. Found via the new message board Warren Ellis started.
Video: What I’m up to
Posted on January 14th, 2008 by dan.
Categories: video, connections, music, live visuals.
One of my current projects is making a music video for Jonny from Eclectic Method. Here’s a little trial run/draft of the work in progress for his song Compressoratorer. Jonny liked it, as well as my suggestion of adding some fun with scanned images of his face — more forthcoming. 
Welcome to BoingBoing readers
Posted on January 12th, 2008 by dan.
Categories: connections, art.
If you ended up on my site from reading about Chris Harvey’s Mandala of Perfect Happiness sculpture on BoingBoing, welcome! Here’s a little more info about Chris, his sculpture and me.
Update
Chris tells me that he’s started a tumblelog for the Mandala and that someday soon there will soon be video of the sculpture, including a timelapse of its disassembly. I assume that will be posted to the tumblelog, so add it to your feedreader. Great pics of the sculpture on there right now.
About the sculpture
The Mandala of Perfect Happiness is made of hundreds of cheap plastic objects that Chris has collected for many years, supplemented by a shopping trip to 99 cent stores when he received a small grant to install the sculpture at the President?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s Gallery at the The Arts Center of the Capital Region in Troy, NY. Apart from poles through the center of the spires, it is held together only by gravity — no glue or fasteners were used. Click on the photo below to see all my pics of the sculpture.
About Chris Harvey
Chris Harvey is a multi-media artist based in Troy, NY, a hotbed for the visual arts, especially VJ-ing. Currently Chris is part of the creative team developing Molecularium, a magical, musical adventure into the world of atoms and molecules that brings together art and science in a playful, engaging format, that will be released in IMAX and planetarium hemispherical projection theaters this year. Chris can be reached at chris at nanotoon dot com.
About me
I (Dan Winckler) am primarily a visualist (or VJ) and performing artist. I perform live visuals for music, dance and theater shows and have worked with Benton-C Bainbridge, [Koosil-ja](http://dancekk.com, Grisha Coleman, and Lance Blisters, among others. I teach visual performance and media manipulation to New York City public high school students in VJ-U, run a small webcasting company, and do interaction design and programming for interactive multimedia advertising. I’m also one of the volunteer organizers of Share NYC a free, open community for multimedia artists that hosts open audio-visual jams every Sunday. You can see some of my work on the /visuals/ page as well as on the Internet Archive. I also do virtual cinematography for This Spartan Life, a talk show set in Halo 3 on Xbox Live. I also blog for Create Digital Motion about VJ stuff. Also, I can’t stop saying “also”.