Go For Launch, CCA Santa Fe, May – July 2009
Brian Kane, Gardner Post
Photos: Glenn French
Audio: Amy Zimmitti
Go For Launch is a large scale 12 screen interactive video art installation. The artistic recreation of an Apollo Saturn 1B launch uses authentic archival NASA audio and video footage to simulate the explosive power and emotion of one of humanity’s greatest achievements. It is a monument to the success of the past and a challenge to the present generation.
‘…one of the most stunning and mind-boggling sequences of video I have ever seen.’ Diane Armitage, THE magazine, September 2009
(read full review)
For exhibition inquiries or more info, contact:
Loco Rites Communications
Email:lisa@locorites.com
Gardner Post and I will be presenting a new 12 screen video installation piece, Go For Launch, a Celebration of Power, at the Center For Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe.
GO FOR LAUNCH
APRIL – JULY
Opens Wednesday May 6, 6:00p
Gardner Post and Brian Kane are artists working with video and emerging technologies in large-scale performance oriented installation and media-activism. Their new work at Munoz Waxman will include an interactive installation using original uncut NASA footage from the first space missions. It is a commentary on the Space Race, and the competition to land on the moon that was a product of the Cold War, technological superiority, and the real fear on both sides that the other might place weapons of mass destruction in space, all issues that are particularly relevant to both the region and the current political climate.
Addictive TV headline Battlejam at Cargo in London, Easter 2009. Brainchild
of Beardyman, the UK beatboxing champion and all round rhythmic wonder,
Battlejam runs in both London (at Cargo) and in Brighton (at Audio). The
Easter 2009 special also featured Beardy’s mate and DMC champion scratcher
JFB, beat-jazzman Onyx Ashanti and his ‘robo oboe’, plus others for a night
of sampling and remix madness.
A short film made by interactivearchitecture.org on the VIDA 11.0 Exhibition held in Madrid February 2009. It includes the work of Philip Beesley & Rob Gorbet, Chico MacMurtie, Jed Berk, Chris Sugrue, Damian Stewart and Ruairi Glynn.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
