From: Red Cell <[email protected]>
Date: October 9, 2009 10:41:32 AM MDT
To: [email protected]
Subject: TONIGHT! ETHAN BACH & WHITMAN @ THE MOV-iN GALLERY 6PM!
Just a reminder that tonight is Ethan Bach's opening at The MOV-iN
Gallery.
WHITMAN and Clark 8 have traveled all the way from LA to perform for
you as well!
The MOV-iN Gallery proudly presents:
Ethan Bach’s “Into the Unknown”
with musical guests Whitman and Clark 8
MOV-iN Gallery
October 9th
6pm - 8:30 pm
1600 Saint Michael’s Drive
on the College of Santa Fe campus
505.982.0389
ABOUT THE SHOW:
Into the Unknown is an interactive video installation exploring
feelings of trust, fearlessness, meditation, and movement.
Participants are invited to walk into a dark room; based on their
movements, various patterns of light appear and react in real time.
Bach has hacked a PS3 eye to work with infrared light and created
custom software for this installation piece.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Ethan Bach is a internationally shown media artist living in Santa Fe,
New Mexico. Bach integrates his documentary background with time-based
interactive installations, web based artwork, and new technologies in
order to push the boundaries of visual art practices. His work
incorporates the taking of journeys and the opening one's mind. (http://www.ethanbach.com/
)
ABOUT THE MUSIC:
Whitman is a lo-fi, experimental musician from Los Angeles who creates
beautifully uncomfortable sketches of songs filled with warped
acoustic guitars, electronics and oddly ardent vocals. (http://www.myspace.com/whitman
). Plus, Clark 8 will be playing an acoustic set too!
Into the Unknown
Ethan Bach
Into the Unknown is an interactive video installation exploring
feelings of trust and fearlessness through movement. Participants are
invited to walk into a dark room; based on their movements, various
patterns of light appear and react in real time. Walking into a black
room with no light is a necessary challenge in order to discover what
lies ahead. Into the Unknown provides the viewer with a reward for
taking such a risk. Once the viewer meets the back wall light comes
out of nowhere and begins following the viewer around.
Into the Unknown was created for the College of Santa Fe re-opening of
the MOV-iN gallery to reflect the new challenges ahead of the college
after exchanging hands. It is about going into the unknown, taking
risks, and working together to create something completely new and
unique. As more participants enter the installation and more movement
is created the more unique and rewarding objects of light that are
revealed.
Each light is individually recorded video that includes the moon,
streetlights, a train, city lights, a 3D generated star and others.
These have been recorded over several year’s time and experiments in
working with light and video. The lights are extracted from the
background and an alpha channel is created to allow for image layering.
Only two infrared sensors light the room while a hacked PS3 eye camera
monitors any activity in the space. This activity is processed through
customized software that extracts the background image (the room) and
reads each participant as a blob. Several tracking points are created
on each blob and the video is mapped to each tracking point. As the
participant moves throughout the space the video either follows them
or drops off to be attached to another tracking point. When there is
no activity within the space it is completely dark.
Into the Unknown was created with the help of Charles Veasey,
programmer, audio artist and long time collaborator, who just recently
relocated to Santa Fe, NM from Troy, New York. (www.charlesveasey.com)
Ethan Bach is an internationally shown media artist living in Santa
Fe, New Mexico. Bach integrates his documentary background with time-
based interactive installations, web based artwork, and new
technologies in order to push the boundaries of visual art practices.
His work incorporates the taking of journeys and the opening one's
mind. (http://www.ethanbach.com/)
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