Gratitude

I'm still processing Portraiture and Perception. Admittedly, I still have a ton of thank you cards to send. I also have a 20-25 page paper to write regarding the installation/production. All the while, I'm teaching two classes. One class is Intro to Composition for the Freshmen dance majors. I love this class and I love my students. They give me so much inspiration. Here's a video one of the students shared in response to an assignment about the "progression of an idea."
Enjoy!

More Load-in Pics

Just for fun:

"Portraiture and Perception" is this way.

Load-in for the show started Friday, March 9th. Here's the beginning:

Coloring Pages for Art Explorations

Part of my MFA project involves creating lessons and workshops that deal with the concepts I work with as an artist. Fiona Lundie, my co-presenter for the upcoming Portraiture and Perception exhibit, is teaming up with me to lead an hour and a half workshop for kids ages 4-8 at Urban Arts Space, Saturday March 17th from 1-2:30pm. That's a pretty big range of ages, cognitively speaking. Fiona will lead kids through creative movement exercises involving her set constructions. I will lead a quick flipbook workshop. Some kids won't be able to make flipbooks, so I'll have some modified flipbooks that they can put together. With the help of some friends, I'll put these together Sunday. At this point in the process leading up to the show, I need more hands than just my two!

I took a few hours last Saturday to trace out photos and video stills using some parchment paper. Kids will also have these coloring pages - yet another way to play with perception.

I'll probably have them available on a table throughout the exhibit as well. I'm finding the urge to pick up a crayola.

Stream of Faces

The following is a quick video I made for my own rehearsal process. These wonderful women are providing me with facial gestures that I will incorporate into my solo that deals with the interstitial space between four distinct groups of women. Music is by Gustavo Santaolalla, however, the audio during the performance will most likely be the audio from interviews with these women.

Some Inspiration

I actually got a lot done today including (but not limited to) sweating in Abby's class, returning emails, responding to discussion posts from my students, meeting with Fiona to discuss production issues for our show (which is quickly approaching), hacksawing parts off the Keystone projector, brainstorming more fabrication ideas with David, putting the helmet cam on skaters at derby practice, rounding up OHRG merchandise for easyriders (we're the "rock-em-sock-em Women's Roller Derby action they're referring to in their sound-bite), gearing up for our first OHRG home bout of the season (which is THIS SATURDAY!) and finding some new inspiration from this video:

Getting back to Projectors

Now that I can let my website rest for a bit (although I haven't finished the phone app yet), I'm back to the projectors. It's time to work in Jitter. To the left is a simple patch, although it took me forever to get the right hi (human interface) element correct. It was simpler than my mind wanted to make it tonight. In any case, the scrolling mechanism is working through Jitter. Next thing I need to do is tweak the video a bit so it projects at the correct size and ratio.

I think I'll get some sleep though before starting the next phase. Tomorrow is a full day of reconstructing the second projector and  getting the videos for the first projector tweaked for a demo. These projectors and the videos going through them need to be done this week!