[spectre] Three collaborative networked video works by Garrett Lynch and Frederique Santune

[Garrett Lynch]

Collaboration for artists can be one of the most productive endevours.  
It produces work by the artists involved which would have unlikely been 
produced individually and also obliges the artists to make conceptual 
compromises they might not usually have to.  It frees up the creative 
spirit as each artist realises at a point that they have to let go of 
their single vision to accommodate the thinking of the other.  The 
OTHER is the crucial element in collaboration, it not alone designates 
the other artist but also implicates the unseen, inexperienced, 
unknowable, unthinkable and inconceivable of the former

Under this framework Garrett Lynch and Frederique Santune would like to 
announce the release of three networked performance video 
collaborations entitled:

Grimace
C.a.r.n.e.t. . .d.a.b.o.r.d
Looping Portrait #1

Each work was performed live employing multiple digital video cameras 
networked and mixed through a camera security system.

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Grimace
http://www.asquare.org/project/grimace/

Grimace is a studio based performance employing three digital video 
cameras networked to a multiple camera security system.  The two faces 
displayed are a reconstruction of artist Garrett Lynch's face.  Two 
camera video his eyes while the third camera videos his mouth.  The 
live feed of each of the eyes are then used eight times with a set of 
four right eyes on the left of the screen and a set of four left eyes 
on the right of the screen.  Two identical live feeds of the mouth are 
displayed below each set of eyes.  The resulting composition is of two 
faces bearing a close resemblance yet differing slightly, reacting, 
grimacing, to some unseen event or in response to each other.

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C.a.r.n.e.t. . .d.a.b.o.r.d
http://saturne-feerique.net/collaboratif/carnet_dabord/

C’est l’histoire courte d'un passage: du pareil au même.  Quand le 
doute devient errance, la voix se perd.

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Looping Portrait #1
http://www.asquare.org/project/loopingportrait1/

Looping Portrait #1 is an accidental portrait of artist Frederique 
Santune produced during setup of a studio based performance.  It 
consists of two digital video cameras networked to a multiple camera 
security system which mix's them live to a single digital video deck.  
The cameras are off-sync with the security system resulting in 
distortion, regular loss of signal and a progressive scanning of the 
video from right to left.  This effect combined with the figures 
movement create potential for an infinite and seamless video portrait.

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gar & sf
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Garrett at asquare.org
http://www.asquare.org/

fred at saturne-feerique.net
http://www.saturne-feerique.net