patashnik a+b

marcus • April 6th, 2008

This piece will be performed at the Rundgang 08 exhibition at the school of Art & Design, Kassel. Follow this link » to see other works of this exhibition.



patashnik a/b is an audio/visual live drawing performance. The two parts of the piece tell a story about an uncertain voyage into space. Without any prepared video material the story is told in figurative images and abstract visuals, combined with a soundtrack of granulated field recordings and electronic music tracks.

All images and animations are created live on a graphics tablet with our completely rewritten animation software NervousInk3. We're working on a public version, which will be available soon for Mac/ Windows.

» Photos: setup set, show set

» Videos: patashnik a/b trailer, patashnik a/b - full length recording

by Vera-Maria Glahn and Marcus Wendt

Many thanks to:
Matthias Siegert, Host & Curator
Fluctuating Images, Gallery/ Location
Myriam Kunz, Photographer

The "Loop" animation effect is partly inspired by Golan Levin's Yellowtail (1998).

 

This piece will be performed at the Rundgang 08 exhibition at the school of Art & Design, Kassel. Follow this link » to see other works of this exhibition.

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+audio +drawing +live +performance +visual

6 Responses to patashnik a+b

  1. Phillip Lamble April 7th, 2008 at 05:04 PM
    amazing. you completely resort my faith in the world of modern art.
  2. Lukas April 9th, 2008 at 07:55 PM
    BOOOOOM!!!!!!!! Da habt ihr ja was feines gezaubert! Big Up!!!
  3. Golan Levin April 24th, 2008 at 08:18 PM
    Very interesting. You might enjoy a related performance I did at Ars Electronica 2000, called "Scribble", which used software called "Yellowtail" (1998) which is now a freely available Processing demo. Links are here: http://www.flong.com/projects/yellowtail/ http://www.flong.com/projects/scribble/ "Scribble" was released on a commercial DVD which is still available from the Ars Electronica Center in Linz.
  4. Greger April 24th, 2008 at 11:10 PM
    Very very nice :) What do you develop your software with? What programming language?
  5. Marcus May 7th, 2008 at 08:12 PM
    thanks guys =) it's all written in java/opengl based on the processing libraries with a custom accelerated graphics engine and tablet drivers. theyre all publicly available if youre interested e.g. » www.processing.org, svn.infostuka.org ...
  6. pk May 12th, 2008 at 12:23 PM
    Very, very cool in concelt and beautiful in execution! Can´t wait to try the NervousINK application myself when you release it.

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