Pump October 2017 - Video Projection

Matt Roberts - Humans of Long Beach

sheri — Sat, 16 Sep 2017 02:07:46 +0000

Matt Roberts is an Englishman who packed his bags to start a new life in the United States in 2008. Settling in Long Beach the first thing that struck him on arrival in his new hometown was the diversity of its people. It was something he felt was unique to a city of its size anywhere he'd seen before and was just one of the many reasons he immediately fell in love with the place.

His first purchase after crossing the big pond was a camera to document his new life and it didn't take long for him to realize that people, as opposed to landscapes or architecture, were his favorite subject matter. As a result his newfound hobby quickly developed into jumping on his bicycle, cycling to all corners of the city and snapping whatever, or more importantly whoever caught his eye.

One day Roberts read an article in The LA Times about a man, Brandon Stanton, who had developed a fascinating blog called 'Humans Of New York' and realized that what Stanton was doing, chatting to people, taking their photograph and then re-telling their stories was not too far removed from what he himself was doing in Long Beach. This inspired him to start recording his own experiences and as a result ‘Humans Of Long Beach’ was born.

For the past four and a half years Roberts has been photographing the people of Long Beach and documenting their stories on his blog 'Humans Of Long Beach’. The result, although seeing the light of day only through the medium of a Facebook page, is a fascinating insight into the lives of the people of this fabulous city.

Initially seeing the page simply as a tool for recording his experiences no efforts were made to publicize his work but (very) slowly but surely by word of mouth alone the page started to attract 'likes'. Messages were received from people saying how much they liked the page and suggesting that a book would be a good idea which brings us up to the present day. Four and a half years in with almost ten thousand followers and a book under creation ‘Humans Of Long Beach’ shows no sign of letting up.

type of work:

Video Projection

Location:

The Icehouse, 625 W Anaheim St, Long Beach, CA 90813

Exhibition Dates:

Saturday, October 7, 2017 to Saturday, October 21, 2017

univac

sheri — Sat, 16 Sep 2017 01:38:10 +0000

consummate TechDweeb, visual artist and novatone "musician" univac continuously re-purposes the detritus of trickle-down technology and off-the-shelf toys and electronics in order to create circuit-bent audioVisual hybrids; causing the designers of the original items to shudder in disbelief.

In addition to circuit-bent video gadgets, univac also constructs audioVisualizations utilizing Apple's Quartz Composer, a visual programming system, making short experimental films and performing live audio-reactive visuals for his own and others' live performances.

univac performs as part of SynthLab.

type of work:

Sound Art Performance

Video Projection

Location:

The Packard by Millworks, 205 E Anaheim St, Long Beach, CA 90813

Performance date and time:

Friday, October 20th, 2017, 7:30 PM

Common Sense

nick — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 05:30:55 +0000

"Common Senses", an original aural and visual concept by Martin Espino, explores the 5 Senses by performing ambient and groove oriented music along with Video Digital Artist, William Almas and Cinematographer, Ivan Cordeiro. The three artists will interpret the senses around Eating and Food, of Taste and Smell and also incorporate the Sounds of various restaurants, local eateries, chefs. The artists seek to use all of the other sense, through their performance, to inspire cravings for food. PUMP Patrons are invited to participate on instruments provided by the artists.

Martin Espino has been composting and performing both traditional to experimental music for at least 50 years, focusing on Ancient Mexico. He has performed and toured with musicians from all over the world and at venues like L.A. Philharmonic, in motion picture soundtracks and theatrical works as well as pre-schoolers and cultural events. He is teaches at grade schools, colleges and libraries. He also works as an instruments craftsman.

William Almas began his adventure in the visual arts as a painter. His large scale portraits gave way to mixed media explorations. Faced with the daunting task of storing the fruits of his labors and with the advent of the home computer revolution William upgraded his skill set to digital imagery. This made his life simpler on his day job and offered an opportunity to see what could be done in the virtual environment. Starting by re-imagining his paintings with wild variations of saturated color Almas then moved into the realm of video production. His wild multi-layered "Retina-Burning" visuals have graced screens, walls, buildings, even shrubs in support of performers such as phog masheeen, Martin Espino, Skunk Puppet and Magic Bullet Theory.

type of work:

Performance Art

Scent/Olfactory

Sound Art

Sound Art Performance

Video Projection

Location:

The Icehouse, 625 W Anaheim St, Long Beach, CA 90813

Performance date and time:

Saturday, October 21st, 2017, 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Rob Brown

nick — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 05:24:58 +0000

Rob Brown is a visual and sound artist who lives in Santa Ana, California. He was born in 1981 in Joplin, Missouri and grew up in Reno, Nevada. His practice includes drawing, printmaking, painting and sound installation. His current work deals with ideas of systems, structure, logic and perception. He employs processed and synthesized sound/video alongside prints and drawings. These works are often realized through a set of self-defined parameters which come from personal research and interests.

His piece “parallax/fade” combines projected monochromatic pattern animations and percussive sounds to create a reactive system. One in which the viewers proximity to the projected image modulates the intensity of the generated sound, which in turn modulates the intensity of the animated visuals. This series of interdependent relationships opens up a space where as the viewer approaches the piece the speed and rhythm of both the sound and visuals slows down, creating an intimate awareness of the viewer/participants physicality, spatial awareness and sense of time.

IMG_2889 from rawblades on Vimeo.

type of work:

Location:

The Icehouse, 625 W Anaheim St, Long Beach, CA 90813

Performance date and time:

Saturday, October 7th, 2017, 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Beck and Col Stafford

sheri — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 04:33:56 +0000

Los Angeles-based artists Beck and Col Stafford use humor and chaos to examine the crisis of human exceptionalism. Through costume-based performance and video, their work explores alternate universes populated with monsters who obsess over humanity and emulate its dominant attributes. Within these universes, Beck and Col analyze humanity’s construction of sexualized, racialized and naturalized others. By removing human attributes, they shift focus from hyper-individualism to a post-anthropocentric perspective, rejecting the view of humanity as the basic unit of reference for knowing the subject.

Chess is widely regarded as an intellectual game, and often used as inspiration in cerebral artworks. This is checkers. Frost Bite! Frost Bite! originated as a short film featuring a game of checkers. Frost Bite! Frost Bite!, a performance in three acts, is an extension of that film. The first is a satire of fascist militaristic displays of power, self-regulation, punishment, and torture. The following act is an improvisational dance by a mercurial creature. The third act is a violent, slapstick battle between the last two remaining pieces on the board.

Frost Bite! Frost Bite! will be performed on the opening night and also run as an installation through the course of the exhibit.

type of work:

Performance Art

Sculpture/Assemblage

Video Projection

Location:

The Icehouse, 625 W Anaheim St, Long Beach, CA 90813

Exhibition Dates:

Saturday, October 7, 2017 to Saturday, October 21, 2017

Performance date and time:

Saturday, October 7th, 2017, 8:30 PM

Ting Zhang & Sahy Uhns

sheri — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 04:31:20 +0000

Ting Zhang is originally from Beijing, China, now living in Los Angeles. She is a video designer graduated from CalArts School of Theater Video for Performance in 2016. From 2009 to 2012, she was working in the film industry as a visual effects artist, now she is particularly interested in inventing new forms of digital arts for performance and interactive installation, her work always immerse the audience into unique and uncanny experiences. Her installation Far and Near You and Me is the first prize winner of 2017 EX prize (Electronic experimental arts), and selected to exhibit in JUSTMAD8 Madrid, Spain. Ting Zhang's video design credits include: The Institute of Memory (3D Animation and Video Content) directed by Lars Jan at Under the Radar in NYC and REDCAT in Los Angeles, Sleighting directed by Rachel Ho at Bootleg Los Angeles, FMX Festival de México: Life is a Dream directed by Claudio Valdés Kuri. As a visual effects artist, the feature films that she participated in are: I am No.4 by Dreamworks, Boardwalk Empire by HBO, The Pacific by HBO Films (63rd Emmy Visual Effects Award).

Far and Near, You and Me is about the beauty of the constant choices that we all make when we are in front of each other, what we choose to cover and what we reveal. It represents a personal understanding about the beauty of distance between people and the way we interact with each other. It reminds us that we have met so many people from all over the world. We all come from different cultures, have different nationalities, skin colors and languages. It is about meeting and forgetting, the memories of those people in our lives.

type of work:

Installation

Sound Art

Video Projection

Location:

The Icehouse, 625 W Anaheim St, Long Beach, CA 90813

Exhibition Dates:

Saturday, October 7, 2017 to Saturday, October 21, 2017

DREAM WALKER

sheri — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 03:47:45 +0000

DREAM WALKER is an interdisciplinary creative artist group that creates new artistic experiences by bringing together emerging professionals from various nationalities and fields of practice. We believe the performing arts can create an extraordinary connection between artist and audience capable of making the world a better place. We dream a world where people, art, and technology are truly harmonized. The group was originally formed by Jonghee Woo, the current representative/artistic director of DREAM WALKER, along with emerging artists from various fields of the Korean performance industry. Later, the group branched out into the United States through collaboration with American and international artists from various artistic fields. Today, the group has successfully presented shows both in Korea and in the United States over the past few years.

WE CREATE NEW ARTISTIC EXPERIENCES.
WE CONNECT PEOPLE AND PEOPLE; ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY; DREAMS AND REALITY.
WE SHARE VISIONS AND DREAMS; CREATIVITY AND ENTHUSIASM; IDEAS AND EMOTION.
WE PIONEER UNCHARTED ARTISTIC AREAS, UNEXPLORED PLACES, AND UNDISCOVERED NEW POSSIBILITIES
WE BREAK DOWN THE WALLS OF BOUNDARY, LIMITATION, PREJUDICE, AND OPPRESSION SURROUNDING US.
WE MAKE DREAMS COME TRUE AND WALK A NEW WORLD TOGETHER.

DREAMSCAPE: Multisensory Contemporary Performance (Music, Theater, Dance, Multimedia), Inspired by John Cage's Variations VII (1966), Directed By Jonghee Woo, Presented by Artist Group: DREAM WALKER (approximately 60min)

DREAMSCAPE is a new, multimedia artistic attempt to integrate art and technology, incorporating video, sound, dance, theater, and live performance in order to capture true liveness and creativity. The main concept of the project was originally inspired by John Cage's Variations VII — one of the greatest performances in modern performing arts history — which was first performed in 1966 as part of a nine-evening concert series in New York. It was largely stochastic and of indeterminate length, making use of unrecorded, technologically-produced/electrically-amplified sound, and was the product of collaboration with artists from various fields of practice, including theater artists, dancers, musicians, and engineers.

In this project, we will apply the principle of randomness to select the materials for the liveness of the performance. We will therefore use live sounds, real time audio processing, live video, and improvised dance and acting rather than rely upon pre-recorded media, choreographed dance, scripted acting, or any kind of prepared artistic material.

As in John Cage’s original staging, parallel platforms will be set up in the center of the performance space. On them will be placed technological components including sound generators, video devices, and a variety of high and low technological objects. Performers and sound/video artists will improvise artistic experimentations, responding to one another while actors and dancers interact among designers, objects on the platforms, and video projections on the walls. The audience will stand around the platforms, freely able to walk around the space.

Collaborators: Jonghee Woo (Director/Multimedia Designer) Rodrigo Correia (Cinematographer), Davy Sumner (Musician/Sound Director), Lee Kam Ying (Video Designer), Shawn E. Brown (Actor), Erik Dabrowski(Actor), David Michael Hochwalt,(Actor), James T. Majewski (Actor), Pricilla Jin Chung(Actor), Alan Perez (Dancer), Carrisa Songhorian (Dancer), Alexandre Malrait (Actor)

type of work:

Location:

The Packard by Millworks, 205 E Anaheim St, Long Beach, CA 90813

Performance date and time:

Saturday, October 21st, 2017, 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM

Hunter Janos & Narae Kim

sheri — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 03:17:19 +0000

The Fog Knows is an immersive and physically interactive light projection installation made by projecting animation through fog so that they form moving sculptural pillars, beams, and walls of multi-color light in a space. Experimenting with motion-capture, light sculpture, techniques in animation, projection, and interactive installation, ‘The Fog Knows’ is a highly interdisciplinary project, revealing Hunter and Narae's exploratory aesthetic as a collective - sensitive to color, tone of motion, translucencies and opacities, which lends a certain quality of perception. The title, “The Fog Knows” comes from the message of the piece- how Fog is perspectiveless, and is therefore not limited. If only we could be more like the fog, and slowly become more and more one with the environment that we reside in, and therefore more aware of it.

The performance/installation is a collaborative project between two artists from different parts of the world- Hunter Janos, Afro-Hungarian queer experimental artist, and Narae Kim, Korean visual artist based in Los Angeles. Narae Kim is a visual artist who creates interactive experiences that tune in to the emotional resonance of objects, medium and individuals. Her work experiments the boundary of interactive art and technology as a founding executive at Tamadé, a data-driven virtual reality company. Her recent VR short film 'Pippa's Pan' (Art Director) was showcased at Cannes Film Festival 2017. Hunter Janos is an artist, designer, and inventor who combines mediums to create animated films, sculptures, music, paintings, and other works that have a focus on shifting perspective and cultivating innovative thought. They have showcased their original work at the Museum of Modern Art, on Adult Swim, The US Capitol Building, and in film festivals across the globe. Hunter is currently completing degree in experimental animation at CalArts, and is leading in development on an device that allows the wearer to see in all directions at once.

type of work:

Location:

The Packard by Millworks, 205 E Anaheim St, Long Beach, CA 90813

Performance date and time:

Saturday, October 7th, 2017, 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM

David Kelley

sheri — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 01:24:43 +0000

David Kelley is an interdisciplinary artist who works at the intersection of the body and landscape. His experimental documentary and ethnographic practices make use of video, photography, sculpture and performance strategies. His works have been shown internationally in galleries and museums. He has had recent solo shows at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and Commonwealth and Council Gallery in Los Angeles. His recent group exhibitions include The Bank in Shanghai, the de Cordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Massachusetts, Basis Voor Actuele Kunst in Utrecht, MAAP Space in Brisbane, and the Jim Thompson Art Center in Bangkok.

Transamazonia is a suite of video installations, photographs and latex photo-sculptures that operates at the intersection of popular depictions of indigenous bodies, the Amazon landscape, and the legacies of Modernism in Brazil. Since colonialism, the indigenous body in Brazil has been depicted with natural metaphors that follow in well worn essentializations of the noble savage. The myth of the indigenous subject is comparable to Brazil's Modernist capital Brasilia and its afro Brazilian music and dance the samba in its national and international visibility. This suite of works takes a haptic, unsensational, and research-based approach to undermining these notions.

type of work:

Photography

Sculpture/Assemblage

Video Projection

Location:

The Packard by Millworks, 205 E Anaheim St, Long Beach, CA 90813

Exhibition Dates:

Saturday, October 7, 2017 to Saturday, October 21, 2017