Round up 4 all

May 3rd, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink


Did it ever occur to you to wave at a surveillance camera? Or rather, at the person who is watching you at that moment in the control room? And how would it feel if that person would wave back and you would somehow be able to see or hear that?

By using surveillance cameras and a free motion tracking software the artists of !CoLAPseKoDe explore spaces in which innocent mouvements can have consequences. Visitors are invited to move between these spaces and by doing so, play with light, image and sound. For interested people there is also a workshop module on Thu and Fri (see below).

Players: Simon Yuill, Kirsty Stansfield, An Mertens, Pierre Marchand, Matthias Koole, Lot Jansen, Dorothé Depeauw

When: From 17 till 19th May at De Pianofabriek, Rue du Fort straat 35, 1060 Brussels

Round-up presents the results of !CoLAPseKoDe, a research process by Mangrove-Tentactile and Constant vzw/asbl, with the support of De Pianofabriek Kunstenwerkplaats and the Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie.
The performance is part of the Open House Festival.

Special: Workshop with Pierre Marchand & Dorothé Depeauw
on Thursday 17 and Friday 18 from 14 till 16h

Motion tracking is based on the analysis of differences between images in a video input. We’ll propose an exploration of how these differences are built in OBJSCRS, then trace new paths from the video input to the actual motion tracker. We’ll build visualizations out of this data structure, whether on screen or in any other possible form.

Motion tracking is based on the analysis of differences between images in a video input. We’ll propose an exploration of how these differences are built in OBJSCRS, then trace new paths from the video input to the actual motion tracker. We’ll build visualizations out of this data structure, whether on screen or in any other possible form.

Voice & objects

August 15th, 2011 § Comments Off on Voice & objects § permalink

In the framework of the CCA-program Creative Lab Kirsty Stansfield and me explore the concept of the “voice as object” and “object as voice”. The motion tracking software objscrs continues to mediate the development of concepts, methods and scores in which physical objects, performers and words are equal “players”. On the reading shelf is the philosophical essay ‘Irréductions’ by Bruno Latour. More documentation will be posted soon to the blog of the over all project !Co LAPse KoDe.

!Co LAPse KoDe breakthrough

April 23rd, 2011 § Comments Off on !Co LAPse KoDe breakthrough § permalink

The residency in De Pianofabriek last week (18-23 April) was filled with little moments of extasy.
First we discovered objscrs works fine with the surveillance cameras of the venue. Very promising :-).
Secondly we found a key for using the software that opened a brand new perspective on experiencing the two- and three-dimensional environments.
And finally we managed to pass on our excitement to an intimate audience.
Read on here, there and overhere.

Le Souffle de l’Equinoxe

March 26th, 2011 § Comments Off on Le Souffle de l’Equinoxe § permalink

! Co LAPse KoDe presented ‘Le Jeu des Jeux’ at the festival of performance & new media Le Souffle de l’Equinoxe in Poitiers.
Le Jeu des jeux or The Game of Games is a game that is designed as an inexplicit manual. The idea worked well, the audience went actively on stage exploring the !Co LAPse KoDe universe and produced some new interventions. You find the scores of the game and a more detailed report here. Pictures of the show follow soon.

! Co LAPse KoDe

December 5th, 2010 § Comments Off on ! Co LAPse KoDe § permalink

! Co LAPse KoDe is born!
It is the Next Generation of Kaleidoscope & Objscrs.

A reduced team, new functions in the software, new references in the games, new games, no more players or actors, no more performance but workshops & productions.

We’re looking forward to a fruitful research & action year, with – if everything goes well – residencies in De Pianofabriek Kunstenwerkplaats/Brussels/BE, Museo de Arte Moderno/ Medellín/Colombia, Centre for Contemporary Arts/Glasgow/UK and of course Chez Georges/Brussels/BE where we have our permanent laboratory set-up (with Georges!).

You can follow the process here.