audiovisual art

Holistic Strata by Hiroaki Umeda

"Holistic Strata is a YCAM (Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media) original production developed with the Center's expert staff during the artist's stay in Yamaguchi, with the aim to break new ground in the filed of body expression integrating media technology....
Based on his own set designs mixing imagery and sound, Hiroaki Umeda equivalently combines in his pieces elements of light, sound, and the human body....
Look forward to a novel type of performance that will rock your body senses and challenge your perception."

"Highly Strung" by Dave Jones.

The performance of Highly Strung featuring the giant 14 meter puppet took place on the night of October 28th 2011 during the Nati Frinj festival. The puppet took ten people to operate and had animation (largely created by the children at the local primary school) projected onto it from projectors mounted both on the ground and in the head of the puppet itself. Music by Stephen Oakes

Filmed by, Jacqui Schulz, Dave Jones, Gareth Llewellin and Cindi Drennan
More on http://theartofdave.blogspot.com.au

"All the Question Marks Started to Sing" a new work by the Norwegian art collective Verdensteatret, was the opening event of FuturePerfect 2011.

FuturePerfect is new performance, media, art and technology initiative founded by Wayne Ashley, the former Director of Arts in Multimedia at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). http://futureperfectfestival.org

DELUSION - an interactive light #installation by Luo Yu.

DELUSION is an interactive light installation which turns static floating tubes into virtual dynamic objects by using emitted light from projectors and sensors. DELUSION is a research of media arts into the combination between projection mapping and interaction technique.

Projects website: http://delusion.yuluo.de

DELUSION - an interactive light installation

Olivier Messiaen: Messe de la pentecôte + light installation with the visual piano by Kurt Laurenz Theinert (light) and Tobias Wittmann (organ).

Performance as part of "Klang Raum Geist", St. Fidelis, Stuttgart, Germany.

Sound and light join to create new forms, all the time. Moving light scluptures improvised by Kurt Laurenz Theinert and his unique »visual piano«. Tobias Wittmann creates innovative concert programs in collaboration with other art forms.

Among by public*reality

Among is the concept of an audiovisual installtion where a sonic and luminous environment composed of articulated tubular lights, their pulsation and movement is conditioned by a computer vision system that observes living ants in an antquarium.

Curious Creatures by Jimmy McGilchrist

"Strange encounters are reported from the festival site as inquisitive and beautiful creatures venture in from the surrounding woods."

Curious Creatures is a large scale augmented reality projection project combining high end animation, sound design, gaming, installation art and electronic music. The work has been designed to reach new audiences in the festival environment. In 2011 Curious Creatures was installed at the Lismore Lantern Parade in Lismore NSW and Splendour in the Grass festival in Woodfordia QLD Australia.