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The Image Is The Servant

Sun, 01 Mar 2015

The Image Is The Servant

I was involved in Honest Dave's second The Image Is The Servant event at Hansom Hall in Leicester on Friday.

TIITS2 was a follow up to last year's event and contained a similar combination live music and live multiscreen visuals. My involvement was to contribute to the live visuals using my wireless video system.

It was the first outing for the system, which features four wireless analogue video cameras and a multichannel video receiver. The output of the receiver is then fed in to a Mac running a version of my Memory Mirror Max patch. Just like the original Memory Mirror, the patch then builds up a dynamic collage of the incoming video material. For this event, two of the cameras were fixed on the stage and two were given to people to point at whatever interested them.

The results were pretty good. The glitchy video from the cameras was nicely mashed up by Memory Mirror and ended up resembling a combination of VHS video and security footage - in a good way!

The event itself was excellent with some great music and lots of interesting images being shown on the multiple video screens. It was good to be involved. See my pictures of the event up on Flickr. I'll be producing some video of the camera footage soon.

Author: Sean Clark