“GDANSK, POLAND - JULY 4 2008: A UFO has been spotted over the historic town of Gdansk, Poland, on July 4 2008.
The UFO flew in along the coast from the nearby town of Sopot, and then circled the centre of Gdansk. The UFO made its startling and surprising appearance soon after sunset. It appeared to […]

Dezeen has posted some new work from Pixelsumo favourite Moritz Waldemeyer. This time he has embedded an LED display into the costumes of rock band OK Go.
“When the band appears on stage, LED lights embedded in their jackets run through a sequence that makes up the letters O,K,G,O – like a Vegas slot-machine scrolling […]

With all of these new interfaces for musical expression that have been around now, I started taking a peak at the scores the players use in their performance. Whilst I am not personally involved in research in this area, I thought it might be interesting to someone out there who is (plus I’ve not […]

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On Saturday I went to see Daft Punk headlining at the Wireless Festival in Hyde Park London. Why do I blog this? The live show is simply stunning, an audio visual treat.
We were extremely squashed in down the very front, eagerly anticipating the curtain to be drawn back. After about 30 […]

The start of the Future Cinema tour back in June was one of the most interesting and unique nights I had been to for a while. Run by Future Shorts, the main focus of the event is short film, animation and motion graphics. Over 150 short films and videos were shown, along with […]

NDSVisuals is a wireless VJ controller using the Nintendo DS. Ndsvisuals utilises the DS features, such as two screens, a touchscreen, wireless networking. The DS is used as an input device to control VVVV patches in realtime.
Watch this video [Quicktime or Windows Media] to see the functions such as:
display and arrange video footage, […]

Move-Me is inspired by the convenience and immediacy of the familiar photo booth, which captures a private moment in a public space. The move-me booth is a special video booth that invites members of the public to create a short video dance based on instructions set by top-flight international choreographers.
Move-me.com is a unique opportunity […]

Golan Levin and Zachary Lieberman are taking over Japan. As part of the Kids Program exhibition at the NTT InterCommunication Center, they have a range of collaborative and individual projects on show from 2000-2006.
[from interview mp3 ]
“These collaborative projects came about through their common interest in gesture and audio visual performance. They have been […]

Takashi’s Seasons, by Takashi Kawashima, a grad student of UCLA, is a sequential live shadow puppet / video performance in which various scenes interpreting the four seasons are performed by a modern Utsushi-e artist.
“In the spring children are seen walking back to school with their school bags (the academic year begins in April in Japan). […]

Six String Sonics is the (work in progress I believe) creation of Gil Kuno. This project sets out to reinvent the guitar. “Instead of stringing one guitar with 6 strings, we have created 6 single string guitars which will be played by 6 people. Since there will be 6 hands manning the strings, the […]