onedotzero is an international moving image festival, showcasing a variety of work from innovators across the globe. This year’s festival identity was created collaboratively by Wieden+Kennedy & Karsten Schmidt (PostSpectacular). All identity assets were generated using a tailor made design/visualization tool, which has also been adapted to create a large scale (48m wide) interactive installation at BFI Southbank during the London festival. The installation allowed users to submit their own messages and manipulate them through gestural interactions using various features of the new Maemo/Linux based Nokia N900 device. The software client for the phone was developed by Gary Birkett and will be available under GPL (TBC) soon.
Programming & Animation: James Paterson & Amit Pitaru
Choreography: Dana Gingras
Dancers: Dana Gingras & Sarah Doucet
Music: Roger Tellier-Craig modifying The Knife.
This is an excerpt from ‘I Am A Chain Reaction’ which is one of seven works that make up the dance/animation/programming hybrid project, Smashup.
Smashup is the outcome of an ongoing collaboration between artists James Paterson & Amit Pitaru ( Insertsilence ), and dancer/choreographer Dana Gingras ( Animals of Distinction, The Holy Body Tattoo ). Smashup premiered in its complete form, an hour long performance, at the Festival Transamérique in Montreal in the summer of 2008.
Others involved in I Am A Chain Reaction are: Dancer Sarah Doucet (the other being Gingras herself). Musician Roger Tellier-Craig (of Fly Pan Am & Godspeed You! Black Emperor) who modified the song ‘Bird’ by swedish band ‘The Knife’. Visual artist Jeremy Felker who helped create the animated vignette that is present in the full 10 minute incarnation of the work.
The software component of I Am A Chain Reaction is projected from above and running live during the performance. This is a raw video recording from above and involves no compositing.
