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me at Experimental Television Center
Posted on April 29th, 2008 by dan.
Categories: connections.
Sunday I got back from a five day residency at the Experimental Television Center in Owego, NY. It went great. This is a shot Emily took of me performing a take for the music video I’m making for Jonny’s song Compressoratorer. I’ll post some sample video when I get out from under the insane workload waiting for me when I got back. Click the pic for a few more shots of me and the system.
Mashup: Rose on Rose
Posted on April 23rd, 2008 by dan.
Categories: connections.
Love it. My favorite video of the year so far.
trying out Flickr video
Posted on April 9th, 2008 by dan.
Categories: video, connections.
Also, IS MY BIRTHDAY.
My brother and me at SXSW
Posted on March 18th, 2008 by dan.
Categories: connections, press, performing, music, live visuals, history.
Dan and Pete labels, originally uploaded by ekornblut.
Last week Emily and I went to Austin for SXSW. I did visuals for a laptop battle (much fun), saw the premiere of Blip Festival: Reformat the Planet, a documentary I’m in about the chipmusic scene, answered some audience questions afterwards with the filmmakers, and had many delicious breakfast tacos. Pete tagged me as an uber-micro-neo-kraut with stickers from the Last.fm/moo.com/Etsy/Timbuktu party. Emily thinks it ought to be my new visualist handle. Here’s the trailer for the documentary.
BLIP FESTIVAL: REFORMAT THE PLANET trailer from 2 Player Productions on Vimeo.
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”.
More Brother Islands pics
Posted on January 11th, 2008 by dan.
Categories: performing, connections, nyc, music, theater, live visuals.
Happy New Year! Sorry things have been so quiet — I had a very relaxing holiday, followed by a slow return to irregular life.
Eyebeam has posted some more pictures of the Brother Islands show, taken by the great Christine Baker. The one below shows me as a ghost, walking in front of the hole I had just pounded through drywall with a five foot, forty pound wrench.
Donate old memory cards and batteries to a needy school
Posted on December 18th, 2007 by dan.
Categories: connections.
At the budget-crunched Brooklyn public high school where I teach VJ-U (the art of live visual performance), batteries and memory cards for the school’s cameras are in very short supply. Recently I dug up my older, smaller memory cards and donated them to the school. If you have a spare SD or xD memory card or a pack of AA batteries you could donate, it would help these very talented, ambitious students to develop their skills and ability to express themselves through photos and video. You can send them directly to the school at:
Urban Assembly School of Music and Art
Attn: Diana Hernandez
49 Flatbush Avenue Extension Fl 8
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Corrected Correction: the school has a couple battery rechargers that charge NiMH batteries (NOT plain vanilla alkaline) so donations of NiMH (Nickel Metal Hydride) batteries would be ideal.
If you’re questioning whether the school really can’t afford $40 worth of cards or batteries, here’s why. The NY Department of Education requires schools to make equipment purchases through approved vendors. Many (if not all) of these vendors think, “Oh, the DOE has tons of money” and charge prices well above market rates. For a 1GB memory card that might cost you fifteen dollars, they might charge a school forty or fifty dollars.
Update
Unfortunately the school doesn’t have enough space for more desktop computers. If you have a Mac laptop that you’d like to donate, they can probably fit it in one of the COW carts. Thanks again to those of you who are donating! Happy New Year!
Brother Islands photos
Posted on December 5th, 2007 by dan.
Categories: connections.
Benton and Minou have uploaded a bunch of great photos from the Brother Islands performance. Here’s a shot of Ryder and me as ghosts, lying in the leaves on the cold concrete floor of Eyebeam as the audience was getting settled. I shook almost uncontrollably. With what control I had, I stopped periodically to mess with the audience. Some children sitting across from me were very intrigued by Ryder and I.
child: Dad, look! Her leg just fell! [off the edge of the pool]
child: Dad, Dad! He’s shaking! He opened his eyes again!
And here’s the pool by which we lay, from Minou’s photos.
