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Part of an ongoing conversation with Gardner Post and Till Krautkraemer.

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Special thanks to Chico MacMurtrie, Sven Travis of Parsons The New School of Design, the National Art Museum of China and the organizers of the Synthetic Times exhibition.

I was honored to participate in the exhibition, and delighted to meet so many incredible artists, including Verdensteatret, Kurt Hentschläger, f18 institute, Edwin van der Heide, Blendid, Herwig Weiser, and David Rokeby.

For more information on 16 Birds, see this page on the Amorphic website and this page from an earlier exhibition in New York City.

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Photo credit: Arrow

I was going to write an article about this years Rhode Island Mind Meld, but I dont think I could do a better job than Peter Kirn’s recent post on CreateDigitalMusic.com.

This was my second year as a participant, and I hope not my last.

It’s such a pleasure to have a creative spacetime to work and communicate with so many talented artists. I get to meet and share ideas with some of today’s top musicians and electronic artists. It is truly inspiring.

Special thanks to everyone involved, including:

Treanor Brothers Animation
Duncan Laurie
Steve Nalepa
Nick Bauta
Tony Flackett
Robotkid
Todd Thille
and of course
Peter Kirn

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WMC: Gardner Post, DJ Tom Laroc and the Baby Grand Master in Miami

DJsounds caught up with the US conceptual/video artist Gardner Post to talk about art + technology at the Remix Hotel, at The National in South Beach. The interview is followed by a trip to a nearby apartment to get a special, behind-the-scenes insight into what Gardner’s working on this year – complete with words from celebrity DJ Tom Laroc!

Gardner was in South Beach with his Baby Grand Master creation (an acclaimed DJ/VJ masterpiece, modestly tagged the ‘king of video instruments’) to collaborate with the New York-born, Miami-based hip-hop DJ Tom Laroc/United Content Providers.

DJsounds last spoke to Gardner in 2007 at the Optronica festival, so it was great to see his vision for Baby Grand Master-style video mash-up materialising in such full-on splendour. Enjoy the show.

Words: LRC

External links:
www.babygrandmaster.com
www.myspace.com/djtomlaroc
www.remixmag.com/remixhotel
www.nationalhotel.com

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The new Iron Man movie from Paramount gets the Addictive TV remix treatment… hot off the press …

5/1/08

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New from the folks at Liquid Innovation is dinnerinabottle.com - the Official MeatWater™ Website.

Play MeatWater Memory Game or enter the Who the f*** pulled the pork Flavor Contest.

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Extra special thanks to Mary Mc Caughey, Adrian Shaw, and Terri Parker for making last month’s Late at Tate event a wonderful evening.

While there, I also had the good fortune to see some amazing new work by the Russian art group AES+F, and meet some of the artists. I was truly impressed with their new work, and recommend their website to get a look at it.

Pictured here are Gardner Post and myself, along with Mary Mc Caughey, Francoise and Graham from Addictive TV, Stuart from Hexstatic, and MC Rebbe in a quiet moment after the event finished.

Thanks again for everyone’s help, and for more information on the Baby Grand Master, click here.

Photo credit Lisa Loco

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Two photos of Chico MacMurtrie’s inflatable Birds sculpture at the Andrew Edlin Gallery in New York City. This is a beautiful piece, which consists of 16 inflatable robotic devices. I spent a few days programming this piece for Chico in the gallery, and we snapped these images on Chico’s iPhone.

I’m very impressed with the direction of Chico’s new work, which has been getting a good deal of press attention lately, too. It’s nice to see Chico’s work getting the attention I think it deserves.

If you are in the city, I recommend a trip to one of the pieces he has up now.

New York Times
New York Post
Wired

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The Baby Grand Master will make its’ European debut at the Tate Britain, Dec. 7, 2007, as part of the Nature to Advantage Dressed: English Garden Lounging, winter in London 2007 show.

The event will feature…
• an English Garden Lounging soundscape by DJ Mary Mc Caughey in the Romantic Painting in Britain Gallery
• a DJ performance by Berlin-based electronica musician Future Loop Foundation, creator of the limited-edition, now highly coveted Scratch and Sniff EP
• Moscow’s AES + F Group’s beautiful 3-channel futuristic film landscape, The Last Riot (2007) currently being exhibited to great critical acclaim in the Russian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale ~ English Garden photograph projections by C.E. Bourke in the Duveen Galleries
• DJ tailoring by avant-garde British couture designers Boudicca
• The Baby Grand Master – the glamourous new DJ console created by American artist Gardner Post
Guests will also have an opportunity to view…
• the Turner Prize Retrospective and Millais exhibitions
• Tate Britain’s collection.
Dress Code
• Dinner-Jackets

We’ll be attending the event in person, and look forward to meeting everyone.

Special thanks to Mary McCaughey.

More information regarding the event.

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Thanks to the folks at Make Magazine for posting the i3L MIDI bridge for the iPhone on their website. Todd Thille at synesthete.com sent me the info first.

I’m also looking forward to seeing the upcoming beta version of 3L “Thrill” VJ Software. Thrill is the real-time 3D visual tool you always wanted. I saw a version this summer that was quite impressive.

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Istanbul based vj collective artificialeyes.tv announce the availability of i3L_v0.1, the first iphone to midi bridge for audio and video software as a free download.

i3L (pronounced “i thrill”) is Freeware developed using Max/MSP as a support application for the native iphone application aka.remote by Masayuki Akamatsu.

i3L receives pre-defined UDP messages from aka.remote.app running on the iPhone, scales the values to MIDI, and allows you to configure the sending MIDI channel and control change message number.

i3L was developed to work seamlessly with our Real-time 3D VJ software Thrill, however i3L can be used with any audio or video software which receives midi messages.

For full specifications, demonstration video, and the download link, please visit http://thrill.artificialeyes.tv/i3L

Please direct further inquiries to this email address. i3l@artificialeyes.tv

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Cutting ‘n’ sampling again! The Addictive guys were asked to remix the new Clive Owen action movie Shoot ‘Em Up for this trailer…

Once again, Hollywood studio New Line Cinema have asked Addictive TV to create an audiovisual viral for one of their new releases, and this time it’s writer/director Michael Davis’ cult-in-the-making “Shoot ‘Em Up” that’s had the Addictive TV treatment. A smash when previewed at the recent Comic Con in San Diego, the movie - starring Clive Owen and Monica Bellucci - is a relentless and visceral action thriller taken to cartoony proportions (more than a slight nod to Bugs Bunny here) where a mysterious lone hero with a very dark sense of humour has some clever ways of getting out of bad situations to protect a newborn baby.

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