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.

Catch a glimpse of the live performance here:

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