UnitedVisualArtists » Speed of Light.

A beautiful installation done with lasers. Excuse me — forgot this was the the Internet — I meant, LASERZ. United Visual Artists are a UK-based team who create live visuals and interactive installations with an architectural bent, meaning, not just the usual glowing rectangles: really striking work. As I tweeted moments ago, I can haz laserz, too? I’m tired of weak projectors on dingy screens.

Recently my friend and collaborator Josephine Dorado invited me to speak with her Social Media Mashup class at The New School, which I was delighted to do. The conversation (on Seesmic) ranged across a variety of topics, including improvisation vs. structure (in my work and live visuals in general), visual performance tools, and how my own background as a theater/comedy actor has impacted my live visual work. Now that the class is moving on to another topic, I’m posting this here for anyone who’d like to keep the conversation going, e.g., ask me all the heavy, technical questions I said I’d answer later. Thanks again, Josephine, Barb, Tom, Debbie, andrihatesjazz, Cecelia, Antoine, Rick and all you lurkers. Happy holidays!

• @wugmump oi, yet another shiny thing to lust after. /me wants more TB in reply to wugmump #

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• @bang_noise awesome work! this'll be fun to play with. in reply to bang_noise #

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• sweet! RT @_vade: v002 Rutt Etra now working in 10.6…new render modes and initial support for lighting patch: http://yfrog.com/0p60028502p #
• RT @nocarrier: Updated information for the pre-8static art opening of READY>RUN at the Klein Gallery: http://www.8static.com [including YT] #
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• @_vade beautiful! i like 'em without and without the techno. in reply to _vade #
• en route to baltimore for a wedding tonight. after watching season 4 finale of The Wire last night, bummed we can't stay for Wire tour. #
• attn journo-bloggers: pls self-impose moratorium on use of filler phrases "we caught up with" and "i was _______ enough to". #
• @notendo 2 more days until you move there or you're there now? #
• attn journo-bloggers again: also stop saying "we sat down with" — you're not an Entertainment Tonight monkey. #
• to journo-bloggers (3): "we were lucky enough to" is particularly bad, since luck usually has nothing to do with getting the interview/etc. #
• next week my company (usefulmedia.net) is installing the audio, video and lighting for William Pope.L's YARD installation, which is… #
• a re-visioning of a 60s installation by Allan Kaprow, featuring lighting design by @benton_c, sound design by @glomag and video design by me #
• it opens on Sept 23rd and stays up through Oct 24 at Hauser & Wirth's new NYC gallery on the UES. more @ hauserwirth.com for the curious. #

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• RT @_vade: If I am reading into this correctly, 10.6 may have the holy grail for VJs. Cross process OpenGL texture sharing: CGLIOSurface.h. #
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• hott RT @nocarrier: Lickshot (NES sampler software) test version is here: http://bit.ly/ybfTc #
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• Up with crazy. Rick Perlstein — Birthers, Health Care Hecklers and the Rise of Right-Wing Rage http://instapaper.com/zMlw1750 #
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• reading Frank Bruni's post about Emily's puréed food blog – http://bit.ly/pDaRa #
• woohoo, Senator Franken asks Sotomayor a net neutrality question #
• @nocarrier whatcha coding? i'm itching to continue some Open Emu work from last night but I have other things to do… in reply to nocarrier #
• @nocarrier no surprise there. but what *kind* of visjyuhlz (or ____) you makin? #
• @tobyspark droooool. Nice graphics on there! in reply to tobyspark #

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