onedotzero_adventures in motion festival is now open for submissions! This is a fantastic opportunity to get your work seen by a like-minded, connected and creative international community.
onedotzero are seeking innovative short films, installations, interactive work and live audiovisual performances to showcase at the BFI Southbank, London, UK, 10-14 November 2010. The five-day festival is the first stop on onedotzero’s extensive worldwide network of events.
Watch the onedotzero_adventures in motion call for submissions video now. If you can’t see this video visit the vimeo page:
So, our festival is now over, packing up our bags and returning to London to wait another year for the 3rd installment of onedotzero_EMPAC [experiemental media and performing arts center]. The festival has been an indulgent delight of dynamic compilation screenings, sensory installations and audio-visual performances which we’re still buzzing about. Of course this wouldn’t have been possible without our amazing audience and the dedication, support and energy of the team at EMPAC – Thank you!
I think we also owe Troy a big thank you too, a small city in upstate New York, Uncle Sam’s back yard which left us with so many memories….
If you’re in town, check out Daisy Bakers, Uncle Sam’s bowling lanes and Browns Brewing co and the gem that’s emerging from it’s hiding place, EMPAC itself. This world class venue should be on everyone’s ‘must visit’ list.
check out their next up-and-coming events: http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2010/spring/
onedotzero_cascade
While the professionals screened and performed their masterpieces during the festival, the next up-and-coming creative talents where participating in onedotzero_cascade, our educational programme aimed at devising a different model for creative learning plugging students from all backgrounds and disciplines into the heart of the creative industries. With students from new media theory, animation and typography classes at Rensselaer, EMPAC organised a series of educational artist exchanges to help develop projects as part of their coursework. Participating artists included, Benton-C Bainbridge, Jeff Crouse and Reid Farrington who helped inform and inspire their work. This resulted in a cascade educational presentation as part of the festival which was watched and critiqued by the specially selected panel including Joanie Lermercier-AntiVJ, Kathleen Forde-curator, Time-Based Media EMPAC, Blair Neal-RPI graduate student and onedotzero’s creative Director, Shane Walter.
The result? A very professional and confident group of students who each presented their ideas, concepts and work, talking through their processes, problems and successes before screening or performing their final work/work in progress. With a large audience to be entertained and a panel of guest critics to impress, the RPI students had their work cut out! Luckily they were not phased and each group embraced the opportunity onedotzero_cascade had presented to them. Kicking off with a performance exploring live audio-visual mixing using analogue techniques, the audience watched on as the group dealt with a few technical problems and mishaps which I guess all comes with the territory of performing ‘live’. Of course this was not the way they had planned the performance, however the fact that things went wrong livened up the presentations, challenged the group to think fast, and reminded some of the guest critics of the times in their past when performances took on a life of their own!
onedotzero_cascade presentation, live performance
With students studying different courses, the realisations of the brief came in different shapes and forms. Alongside the grand live performance we saw short animation ‘and your spirit of kindness’ which was created by Sarah Stump. Primarily created with pencil, paper, watercolor, adobe after fffects, and some photoshop, this 2D animation was created for Sarah’s senior thesis.
With an afternoon of entertaining student presentations and energetic audience participation over, we went on to close the festival with a food + drinks reception at EMPACs cafe. With the feedback from the professionals, and insight into the ideas of the next creative talents it was a very appropriate ending with a positive outlook for the future! Who knows where the students/graduates work will end up… perhaps within onedotzero_adventures in motion festival next year?!
With plenty of screening programmes and late night events to please the over 18 crowd, we opted for a more child friendly start to the day with our new onedotzero_sprites programme. Featuring a specially curated selection of shorts, including Studio aka’s stunning “Lost and Found” this programme was aimed specifically at our next generation of creators. Proving to be a success, onedotzero_sprites was well received by both children and adults alike with the infectious giggling certainly a sign of approval!
Lost and Found: Philip Hunt
INSTALLATIONS
Set up specifically for Sunday, Brian Alfred‘s video installation: It’s Already the End of the World, 2010 created a powerful presence in studio 1 with Brian’s work inspired by his interest in globalization, civil unrest, political and social opposition, and influential figures and locations. Audiences were able to wander in and out, sit, stand, lay down and immerse themselves amongst the animation which featured multiple soundtracks by musicians Flying Lotus, Ghislain Poirier, Roberto Carlos Lange, and many others.
While our final screening programme was underway, there were still opportunities for all festival goers to enjoy the delights of our free installations dotted around the EMPAC building throughout the weekend. On the mezzanine level we had our interactive music video lounge, dissolving the barrier between artists and audiences with the ability to control the action, create your own tracks, record personalised cuts to send to friends, and appear in another realm through the magic of augmented reality.
Interactive Music Video Lounge: Blac Ionica
Course, not forgetting our onedotzero interactive festival identity installation which has been causing quite a stir since it’s launch at our onedotzero_adventures in motion festival premiere at London’s BFI Southbank in September 2009. The identity was created by Wieden + Kennedy London, who were inspired and stimulated by online conversations amoungst onedotzero’s global community, aiming to unite them to create the identity itself. The result – specially produced generative software allowing these conversations to evolve, grow and interact using a nokia n900 phone. This open source software is now free for you to download and have a go yourself!
With the temperatures hotting up in troy on Saturday, it was a relief we had plenty of interactive installations and stellar screenings within the EMPAC building to entertain while taking the heat off!
With onedotzero screenings of citystates 09, craftwork, extended play 09, new british talent 09 and j-star 09 the 3 day screening pass was much more than a bargain!
Due to the mentioned complicated set-backs of visas + ash clouds, the scheduled residency for AntiVJ at EMPAC had to be scaled down from three weeks to one week. Not letting time get the better of them, Nico + Joanie of visual label AntiVJ took on the epic challenge by working all day and all night to produce their installation, ‘light canvas‘, using light projections onto the white canvas walls and executed using the mapping technique.
While Nico returned to business in Europe, by Saturday evening Joanie was set-up and ready to go for AntiVJ’s live audio-visual performance with the aid of music by sound artist sleeparchive. Using the Icelandic volcano as inspiration, the piece took on its own life erupting with light, live projections and reactive sound to entertain a fully captivated audience who packed out studio 2.
