mercoledì 22 maggio 2013

Video art of the day. Repopulate -- Blake Shaw Video Painting Tel Aviv / Jerusalem 2013 (THE BRIDGE Preview).

via woostercollective.com
Repopulate -- Blake Shaw Video Painting Tel Aviv / Jerusalem 2013 (THE BRIDGE Preview) from SWEATSHOPPE on Vimeo.

In April 2013 Blake Shaw traveled with Jay Haze to the Occupied Palestinian Territory for his first trip to launch "The Bridge", a new telecommunication art project to facilitate real-time artistic collaborations amongst people across borders using 'Nomad.OS' a live-streaming software he is currently developing.
In this video he takes portraits of refugees from Balata, Al-Jalazone, and Al-Am'Ari refugee camps and uses video painting to paint their portraits onto historical sties in the Israeli cities of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and the old city of Jaffa in an effort to symbolically return the image of these refugees to their ancestral homes.
Video Painting is a technology developed by Blake Shaw and Bruno Levy aka SWEATSHOPPE that uses custom interactive software, video projection, and electronic paint rollers outfitted with LEDs to create the effect of painting videos on walls. The technology allows them to explore the relationship between video, architecture, and mark making and create video collages in real-time.
Music by Jay Haze aka Dub Surgeon
Special thanks to Jay Haze, Koan Baysa, Jack Persekian, Neda Mansouri, The Goethe Institut, Lolita Brayman, Public Art Lab Berlin, Efy Tal, the Khouriya family, Al-Qattan Foundation, Yafa Cultural Center, Edie Rush, Yoram Aharony, all of the people of Palestine, all Israelis against the occupation, and everyone who has helped support this project thus far, and will continue to help support building "The Bridge" in the future.
Directed and produced by Blake Shaw
For inquires into "The Bridge" please email blake@sweatshoppe.org
For video painting inquiries please email contact@sweatshoppe.org
Website for "The Bridge / Nomad.OS" coming soon at brdg.net

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