A reading of the poem “Franklin” by Karen Solie, with realtime graphics created in Isadora and Processing.
format: HD video
software: Isadora, Processing, After Effects
Toronto, 2012.
Franklin
March 9th, 2012Interregnum
December 4th, 2011Based on the extraordinary career of René Carmille, history’s first known computer hacker. The government of Nazi-occupied France launched a ghastly and unprecedented experiment in information science: much of the Vichy bureaucracy, including the operation of the death camps, was automated with punch-card computers. However, the Nazis didn’t understand the technology’s potential vulnerabilities…
format: HD video
software: Flash, After Effects, Final Cut, Photoshop, Audition
Toronto, 2010.
More Than Winning
November 11th, 2011“They gave me a gun, a pick, and a hand grenade, and said ‘Win at any cost,’ and I said ‘Right.’ There’s nothing I love more than winning…” From a story by Susan Murray.
format: HD video
software: Flash, After Effects, Final Cut, Photoshop, Audition
New York, 2011.
The Mouth and the Vitamin
October 10th, 2011This is one of a series of realtime animations we created for Jen Tsuei’s play Fantasias for the Immoderate. Two actors in microphones used the volume of their voices to control the video “puppets” in a program called Isadora.
format: DV video
software: Isadora
Los Angeles, 2004.
Sloth
October 10th, 2011What’s a goat doing on the phone? He’s illustrating one of the seven deadly sins, of course.
format: 16mm film
software: n/a
Los Angeles, 2003.
Cave Bear
August 5th, 2011A reading of the poem “Cave Bear” by Karen Solie, with realtime graphics created in Isadora and Processing.
format: HD video
software: Isadora, Processing, After Effects
Toronto, 2011.
Molasses Sisters
July 4th, 2011Once upon a time there were three little sisters and they lived at the bottom of a well… An excerpt from Alice in Wonderland, adapted from a 2004 realtime installation created with Meg Schedel.
format: DV video
software: After Effects, Painter, Max/MSP/Jitter
Toronto, 2011.
Outside the Box
June 12th, 2011Something a little different–a live-action comedy sketch created with Nicole Stamp, starring Hayley Hudson, Ben Hudson, and Danielle Ayow.
format: DV video
software: Final Cut
Toronto, 2008.
Trip Down Market (annotated)
May 2nd, 2011A realtime recording made with GPS data and popcorn.js, based on the classic “actuality film” shot by Harry Miles in San Francisco, April 1906. Here’s the code used to create this.
format: website
software: popcorn.js, After Effects
Toronto, 2011.
The Dead Man and the Lawyer
April 4th, 2011Written by Jennifer Tsuei, Celeste Den as the Lawyer. The Dead Man was animated using motion-capture data from a Kinect camera…to learn more about how this was done, look here.
format: HD video
software: OSCeleton, Oscar, Flash, After Effects, Audition, Final Cut
hardware: Kinect
Toronto, 2010.
