ReSiDeNt @ LEMUR: New Works, New Instruments, New Artists
PERFORMANCE: Oct 9nd 8PM $5

ReSiDeNt Submissions

Deadlines are rolling, allowing artists to submit applications to be

considered for future residencies throughout the year.

We are please to announce the 2008-2009 Digital Performance Institute Artist Residency projects.
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• rope&pulley
  Michael Chladil  
• The Mahler + Machine Project
  Jennifer Tsuei     
• ‘cara viaggio’
  John Kelly 
• Alchemy of Light
  Ruth Sergel     

DPI:

Do you like to use hardware or software? PC/Mac vs. DVD/Mixer?

Hal Eagar:

I prefere Software over hardware all the way. I'm a programmer so that's pretty obvious for me. But to go into the details the fact that I can get the software to do a lot of various things that that would each take a different piece of hardware and the fact that I can re use the computer just about every day not just when i'm running a video effect is a big plus. And because it's a general purpose machine it's easy to find a computer when you need one too.

Also as i've mentioned I like realtime generated animation and the type of uber flexability that you can get with a software system. I guess that a dvd player is as easy to find as a computer, but the computer is more flexable.

Not everything is possible with just a general purpose pc of course. I have my bag of add ons and extra little devices. Scan converters, video capture devices, DA's, switches etc... But they are all pretty cheap mass market stuff just like the computer itself. Besides being cheap, mass market stuff is easy to replace. So although it's less dependable than really high end video gear it's pretty solid (After all it's meant for the masses) and easily replaced or backed up.

I know a lot of people are afraid of using computers because they fear failure. And some people say they don't trust hard drives.
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We've borrowed a VGA
Distribution Amplifier or, 'splitter' as a simple way to send one
signal to  two projectors.  I personally own a VERY cheap 'splitter'
that looks like a V.  But i wanted to borrow the amplifier so that
there was no signal loss or messing with the image in either projector.

Each
projector is projecting the same image and when we only wish to see one
projector we'll use an analog shutter system (read cardboard and
pulleys).  I also borrowed the DUalhead 2Go in case the combination of
the splitter and long cables cause interference with the image.  In
that case i'd rewrite in Isadora where we are sending each image.  But
we might still use the shutter system so that the black square doesn't
get projected.

Projections are on the back wall and on the floor.

The Amelia Project, Phase II
@ The Flea Theater
with AERIAL DANCE,  LIVE MUSIC, VIDEO PROJECTION
June 19-22, 2008

For tickets, click HERE
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Some final Questions about your residency. Some to help document the process and some to help plan the future of the residency.

DPI:

Do you like finished tools or programming environments? Watch out/grid vs. Isadora/jitter/vvvv ?

Hal Eagar:

I prefer tools. But not too raw. The question does not even go so far as to suggest Java, C, or other such viable options, I guess it really should. But that's too raw for me. I am in a hurry and want the hard work done for me. Sure in a framework or using libraries that work is done but like I said I'm in a hurry, and I'm lazy too.

What was it Lary Wall said were the virtues of a good programmer. Laziness, Hubris, and Impatience.

So anyway I love Isadora that hits the sweet spot between flexible programing and ease of use. That spot is probably different for everyone. It may be watchout for some or java for others.

And I do think jitter is awesome, but I may be a little too lazy for it, when Isadora gets me there faster.

I also love flash, it also hits the spot for me; easy but powerful. And it's growing in features like crazy. Maybe it's getting too complex and it might be just as easy to use some other framework to do some jobs I do with flash. But it really has features and strengths across a large spectrum of uses and styles. So why learn another system, I'm hooked in to just focusing on getting really proficient in this one.

Submissions are closed, thank you for your time and interest, announcements should be made by Sept 30th.

Nolan's Run

A feature documentary about the 2004 Libertarian Presidential race.

SCREENING: Sept. 22, 8PM $5

Galapagos Art Space

16 main street, Brooklyn (DUMBO)

93 minutes with a Q&A post-movie

Charles Hamilton, a Cinematographer at DPI's sister company Learning Worlds, has been quietly working on a mysterious film late at night here at the offices for some time. And we are now lucky enough to get to see it at Galapagos.

Even better news? There's a full bar, and consumption during screening is highly encouraged. In fact, it's part of the Galapagos biz model. Which means you can get all liquored up while watching the flick. And even if you hate the doc, at least the booze was top-shelf…

Here's some photos of another project that I started work on during my DPI residency.  Again, this was made possible with DPI equipment.  The photos were taken by Monica Ruzansky in August 2008, when I was projecting onto a building just off of St Marks Place in the East Village.  These are very early sketches of a project that I will continue to develop over the next year.

I put some documentation online from the Giants projections that I shot at DPI.  You can see it here: www.edpurver.com/giants.html

DPI:

How do you document your work on a show? Video, pictures, ground plans? Wiring diagrams? Written instructions?

Hal Eagar:

If I'm building the show and running it, I rarely get around to any real technical documentation, but if I'm handing it off to someone then I try and do as much as possible. And when I pack up and back up a show I try to do at least a nice long text description of the setup.

I've tried taking photos of a setup, but it always seems useless. The video of what the piece looks like is really useful though. It may not help you remember any of the tricks of the video system, but it's great for trying to recreate the piece.

I really like to color code my wiring diagram, and I seem to almost always have the flash
IDE open on my computer so I'll end up doing a wiring diagram with little
handmade graphics of the video devices in flash. I also like to build it in layers, so you can
output a diagram of all the VGA cable, and of all the composite cable, and of
all the computer cable separately.

I figure I really ought to be using a drafting program but, it works so far.

But at least 50% of the documentation is just in a textual description of how everything should work, and what order to do things in.

And if possible what things to check if something is going wrong.
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Chiptunes, what do you mean [...] what like laptop DJ's [...] ok it's Uber-Geek, but it is any good?

Now the easy way to get all your chiptunes questions answered without even having to haul yourself out to some really fun party at a cool and almost always cheap and welcoming venue.

How?  The Pitchfork Chiptune documentary.
Reformat the Planet: Chapter 01

sequencing 8-bit chipsets on Game Boys, but the Chiptune scene has now expanded well beyond game systems.

and if you think you might be able to haul yourself out to see that then keep your eye open for:

BLIP FESTIVAL 2008 "low-res cutting edge"

And even if you can't make it for the show, the blipfesival site provides you with plenty of links to fill your late night coding hours with suitably upbeat sharp waved tuneage.

Oh What War
Juggernaut Theatre Company
PERFORMANCE: September 10-October 4 8:30PM $15
HERE Arts Center 145 Sixth Avenue

A fantasy of flagrant disobedience to authority, OH WHAT WAR follows a band of deserters stuck in No Man's Land. A mash-up of mud, vintage war songs, b/w video footage and battle noise, this original Juggernaut production zeros in on the great war machine that holds us captive.

Reid Farrington Presents : THE PASSION PROJECT
PERFORMANCE: Sept 10 20 2008 $20 7:30pm (additonal shows 9PM Sept 12,13,18,10)
Performance Space 122
150 First Ave. NY, NY

"One of the most satisfying theatrical experiences I've had in ages"
blogs Claudia La Rocco after previewing The Passion Project.
"[Reid Farrington has] a way of engaging with history and making
this historical work contemporary by exploiting the very distance
that exists between us and it."

Using a single live actor and multiple projection surfaces, Reid
Farrington explores the intersection of performance and film. He
uses Carl Th. Dreyer's 1928 immortal masterpiece, "The Passion of
Joan of Arc" as the main narrative along with the history behind the
making of the film, a discussion with a Danish archivist, the story
of making this project, and Joan's story; her trial, torture, and 'execution.

THE PASSION PROJECT explodes the film into the three
dimensions; placing the audience inside the film, sitting next to
Joan, subjecting them to the relentless rhythm of 30 mm film
projection. This piece vibrates between performance, film and
installation.

Developed at and with the support of 3LD Art and Technology
Center. Also developed with the support of Digital Performance Instituteand Ideal Glass Gallery.

The National Theater of the United States of America's
CHAUTAUQUA!

PERFORMANCE: Sept 4 - 6 8PM $15

Collapsable Hole

146 Metropolitan Ave, Williamsburg (between Berry and Wythe)

I'm not sure what they have in store, but it's bound to be fun around the edges, some sort of theatre in the middle. Just right to fill up a Hole :)

DPI Post-Performance Discussion Event
with resident artists (past & present)
September 17, 2008 at approx. 8:30pm @ HERE

Artists: Mallory Catlett and Zbigniew Bzymek                                                               Moderator: Liz Dreyer, co-founder Digital Performance Institute

THE WORK:
A fantasy of flagrant disobedience to authority, OH WHAT WAR follows a WWI band of deserters stuck in No Man's Land. A mash-up of mud, vintage war songs, b/w video footage and battle noise, this original Juggernaut production zeros in on the great war machine that holds us captive.

THIS EVENT FREE, AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

HERE ARTS Center, ?
Performances of OH WHAT WAR begins @ 7:30 PM
For tickets: $15? (212) 868-4444
www.here.org?
HERE is located at 145 Sixth Avenue?
(between Spring & Broome Sts.)

http://nymediaartsmap.org/

This is an interesting project, it is a listing of organizations with "media arts services and information", the map/site/data is provided to us by for organizations that fit that category to a "T"

• American Documentary | P.O.V.
• Experimental Television Center
• New York State Council on the Arts
• RHIZOME

This ought to be a very usefull to anyone sharing the interests we do here at Digital Performance Institute, it's provided me with some new sources to check out.

If you are looking for resources check back in the arcive for my favorate lists of Venues,  Community and Others