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SYLVIE HUYSMAN

Posted by Fabio 29 October 2010

Sylvie Huysman studied the effects of gravity on human movement. if asked she can reproduce gravity’s pull on a wall making it seem as if she is slowly falling vertically. The effect is so unnerving and so fundamentally wrong that it makes you feel a little nauseous just looking at it.

www.sylviehuysman.be
www.projectprobe.net

North Korea’s Military parade in Slow Motion

Posted by Fabio 14 October 2010

The Hermit Kingdom allowed international media to watch its largest ever military parade – part of the campaign to establish Kim Jong-il’s youngest son as the leader-in-waiting. By Dan Chung and Tania Branigan.

www.guardian.co.uk

Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes

Posted by Fabio 27 September 2010

Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes
1909 – 1929

25 September to 9 January 2011

V&A
Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL

Heart Chamber Orchestra – Pixelache

Posted by Fabio 15 June 2010

The Heart Chamber Orchestra is an audiovisual performance. The orchestra consists of 12 classical musicians and the artist duo Terminalbeach. Using their heartbeats, the musicians control a computer composition and visualization environment. The musical score is generated in real time by the heartbeats of the musicians. They read and play this score from a computer screen placed in front of them.
www.heartchamberorchestra.org

EUPHORIE

Posted by Fabio 10 June 2010

Euphorie is a live performance created by1024 Architecture, a studio focusing on the interaction between body, space, sound, visual, low-tech and hi-tech, art and architecture.

www.1024architecture.net

Stuck in a Groove / Phonovideo

Posted by Fabio 10 May 2010

Phonovideo by Austrian filmmaker and graphic designer Clemens Kogler, is a VJ tool or visual instrument used to display animations in an analog way without the help of a computer. “Stuck in a Groove” is the first film made with this technique, it serves also as a demo for the technique . In the future phonovideo should be used for live performances in cooperations with musicians, performancers and other artists.
www.clemenskogler.net

HEDI SLIMANE

Posted by Fabio 15 January 2010

Ballet and bass drum – its Friday. Fashion icon Hedi Slimane has recently directed this potent short film in collaboration with VMAN. Its stars the only 16 year old Danish ballet dancer Oscar Nilsson from the Royal Danish Ballet Theatre and a drummer with a bear head.