MuTATE britain

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Mutate Britain has been going on all this month and ends soon, here is a clip from the show. all the information about it can be found on the above link. I really like the idea of this, this is the type of event that shows how graffiti/street art is changing. It is evolving into something better than it once was. Its no longer about the spray can and just covering everything you can find. instead it is an art style in its own right and uses multiple technics to present what it is showing.

Evan Roth: Digital Blackbook (Graffiti Analysis 2.0) Sessions

Graffiti Analysis 2.0 (Digital Blackbook) - BLK River (Vienna) from Evan Roth on Vimeo.

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This software looks pretty impressive to me, motion tracks what you are doing and then you can add effects etc on too what you are writing. think this video pretty much speaks for itself.

"Thought you might enjoy some of the pre-release footage of the Digital Blackbook (Graffiti Analysis 2.0) sessions from the BLK River Festival last week in Vienna. I'm working on developing an open data base of motion capture graffiti data from writers all over the world, should be released publicly within the next 4 weeks." Evan Roth

Chris O'Shea's Hand From Above

Hand from Above from Chris O'Shea on Vimeo.

This was up all last month on the main screen in clayton square, liverpool. I passed it by at first unknowingly,  I heard an unusual sound and looked up to see a video of myself being tickled by a giant hand, one of the single most surreal experiences to happen to me yet. It took a few seconds before i figured out what was happening and then i found myself intrigued by the video.

"Chris O'Shea's Hand From Above encourages us to question our normal routine when we often find ourselves rushing from one destination to another. Inspired by Land of the Giants and Goliath, we are reminded of mythical stories by mischievously unleashing a giant hand from the BBC Big Screen. Passers by will be playfully transformed. What if humans weren’t on top of the food chain?

Unsuspecting pedestrians will be tickled, stretched, flicked or removed entirely in real-time by a giant deity.

Hand from Above is a joint co-commission between FACT: Foundation for Art & Creative Technology and Liverpool City Council for BBC Big Screen Liverpool and the Live Sites Network. It premiered during the inaugural Abandon Normal Devices Festival."

Sweatshoppe

SWEATSHOPPE, 4spots, the landing extras from SWEATSHOPPE on Vimeo.

"Multimedia performers Sweatshoppe have been wheat pasting buildings with moving images all over New York. Mapping video projections to LED-lit paint rollers, Sweatshoppe lay their projections on a surface, paint-stroke by paint stroke. They call new digital performance style "Video Painting".

How it works: The software controlling the video was written in Max. The paint roller does not use any sort of paint, it simply contains green LEDs. The software tracks the color green and outputs the x y position which are sent to drawing commands and the strokes are textured with video.

Sweatshoppe is video artists Bruno Levy and Blake Shaw. They plan on eventually releasing the software, but only after it is much more refined, buffed up with features and is user-friendly."