A day of panel talks and performances about VJing, live cinema and audio-visual performance. This symposium will bring together academics, artists and VJs to discuss the role of projection in their work, and the current state of AV performance in the UK. A number of thematically focussed panel talks will take place in Centrala, Birmingham on Saturday 24th February, followed by an evening of AV performances from 7pm – 10pm, and ending with a VJ Jam until late. Running in parallel at Vivid Projects there will be a number of projection-based installations. This event is a collaboration between The Projection Project, an AHRC funded research project based at the University of Warwick, and Lighttouch Festival.
Confirmed speakers/artists include: Toby Harris (*spark), Rebecca Smith (Urbanprojections), Miri Kat, Antonio Roberts, Raquel Meyers, Rod Maclachlan, Guy Edmonds, Blanca Regina, Flatpack Film Festival, Sean Clarke (Test Card Manchester), Richard Wallace.
Come along to Vivid Projects on the evening of Fri Feb 23 for a warm-up party with loud music and VJs.
On 8th June a video recording of Sonification Studies and the Archive Remix videos will be on display at BYOB Porto/OpenField.
BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer)” é o nome dado a uma serie de “one-night-exhibitions” organizadas um pouco por todo o mundo. Consiste em juntar num espaço varios artistas visuais, cada um traz o seu projector e enche o espaço e as paredes de luz e imagens.
Esta quarta-feira (8 Junho / 18.30) vai-se efectuar um BYOB no Openfield CreativeLab.
During my time in Stony Brook for f(Glitch) I’ll also be curating another BYOB event, taking place on March 4th!
You are invited to join us for the first Bring Your Own Beamer (BYOB) at Stony Brook University. Taking part is easy: just bring your beamer (digital projector) and something to be screened! BYOB is a series of one-night exhibitions where artists are invited to bring their own beamers and explore the medium of projection by creating a collaborative happening of moving light, sound and performance. On March 4th from 20:00 until 23:00 we will fill Union Ballroom and University Cafe at Stony Brook University with artists, each of them armed with their own beamer.
Open to anyone, including those outside the university.
Bring your own beamer/projector, video playback device and extension cord.
We can provide power sockets and some extension cables.
Find your own spot on the day.
Use any surface to beam on, including ceilings and floors.
Places allocated on a first come, first served basis.
Participants are welcome to set up at University Ballroom and Cafe from 5pm.
Participants are responsible for the safety of their own equipment.
All ages welcome in the University Ballroom, but ages 21+ allowed in the University Cafe.
The University will have a limited amount of beamers that can be booked on the night. Please get in contact if you need one. These will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.
Vivid Projects’ acclaimed 33 REVOLUTIONS programme concludes this winter with Bring Your Own Beamer (BYOB), a one-night celebration of the projected image. Armed with projectors, artists will descend on Vivid Projects’ space in Digbeth to create a collective Revolution #33 through a giant audio-visual environment. Join us for the finale and raise a glass to the revolution – viva the beamer!
Bring Your Own Beamer (BYOB) is an international series of one-night exhibitions inviting artists, armed with films and projectors, to convene and explore the art of projection in an immersive environment of moving light, sound and performance. BYOB is an idea originally conceived by Berlin-based artist Rafael Rozendaal and BYOB events have been held in over 40 international cities.
On Monday 22nd July I’ll be off to London to take part in a rather special edition of Bring Your Own Beamer (BYOB), which sees the usual barrage of artists project against a backdrop of music from Mark Ronson and others!
This edition of BYOB will feature 28 visual artists (myself included) and will run from 7pm-11pm at a venue somewhere in East London. It’s invite-only, but as with all Boiler Room shows it’ll be streamed live, so tune in!
BYOB is coming around again, only this time I’m not organising it (although I am “supporting” it)! BYOB Leicester will take place at the Fabrika Independent Arts Centre (map) on Saturday 4th August
I’ll be “beamering” video work all night, though I’ve yet to decide what video I’ll show. I might even show something new!
They’re still looking for other people to beam, so be sure to apply. Deadline is 24th July 23:59
Pete Ashton took all of the photos that exhibitors and attendees took and made this video. The photos are looped at 30fps 6 times over a minute, zooming at 400% each loop.
Recently I’ve been making a few video loops for Dreambait Recordings to use in their shows. The videos, made using video samples and Pure Data, focus on feedback loops. For BYOB Birmingham on Friday 16th March I decided to showcase these video feedbcak creations. Some photos of it in action:
Photo by minuek
The Pure Data patch used to make these visuals, inspired by this patch is pretty simple: Put an object on screen, take a snapshot of the screen and then apply that snapshot as a texture to another object. You can download it below
Click to download
As a texture for the cube I used the Skin Cells video again. You could replace this with any video, image or webcam feed. The [pix_contrast] object is there purely to provide an over-saturated look (try bringing Saturation to a negative number). For BYOB I automated the controls by using random number generators (feeding [random] into [metro]). Here’s a render of what the audience saw:
All that is needed now is some cool audio to go with it! Thanks to all those that came to BYOB to see this and other awesome artworks!
BYOB Birmingham happened on Friday 16th March and it was a great success! For those who like statistics, in the end the event had 18 artists (plus videos from VIVID’s archives), 22 beamers, and nearly 200 people attend.
My thanks for making the night awesome go to:
Flatpack Festival, which has been going for six years, for putting on a great festival and allowing BYOB to be part of it
VIVID, whose amazing gallery space was perfectly suited for this event. There were worries about there being too many cables and causing a power outage due to too many beamers, but the excellent VIVID staff were on hand to make sure it all went swimmingly
Bobby Bird from Modulate and Gary Judge (aka Arcade) for providing awesome music throughout the night. Many times I received comments about how well the music matched the event. Also, Cylob FTW!
Shelly Knotts, for being helping me on the day, taking photos, keeping me sane, and for buying me lunch 😉
Rafaël Rozendaal, for coming up with the BYOB idea and allowing anyone to do as they wish with it
The people of Birmingham and West Midlands, for coming out in your hundreds to support the event
And last, but not least, my thanks go to all of the artists that traveled from all over the country to be part of BYOB Birmingham!
If any of my readers took any gifs, photos or videos (even phone quality is great) upload them to Flickr/Youtube/Vimeo and tag them “BYOB Birmingham” or send them to byobbirmingham@gmail.com and, with your permission, they’ll be used in a video documenting the event.
