Filmverkstaden

Sound and Image: Camera ILLUMINATA-work in anabasis

18.03.2017 20:00 - 21:00 h

CAMERA ILLUMINATA-work in anabasis
2017

Marek Pluciennik and Roberto Pugliese aka Aliasing

16 mm projectors, mirrors, kinetic elements, live electronics

Marek Pluciennik and Roberto Pugliese will say farewell to soap factory with an audio-visual performance using 16mm film projectors, digital projection and processed sound.

CAMERA ILLUMINATA is an immersive audiovisual performance that combines projections of both analogue and digital visual materials while going beyond the usual screen presentation. It is a live performance where images are diffused across the space using a complex system of moving mirrors.

The project is based on live cinema practices such as physical manipulation of the projectors and the film but pushes those forwards to digital media by means of real-time manipulation of digital video.

The system is composed of 16 mm projectors coupled with a digital camera positioned in front of the gate. While the image is formed it gets captured and processed digitally. The result is a hybrid that gets projected digitally on screen and also diffused directly in the performance space.

A further element to expand the performativity and physical intervention of the media is the use of mirrors that brakes the image. The mirrors are attached to computer-controlled motors letting them move, drastically modifying the image and articulating the visual development according to pre-programmed algorithm or being influenced by the sound of the machine itself.

This approach to the machinery is to extend it and augment it with digital media while retaining the physical relation between the performer and the machine, the human gesture and intention acting through an instrument.

The sound has a very important role since it magnifies the behaviour of the system by amplifying all the sound created on the projector plus the one of the motors.

​The project is built around the broad notion of expanded cinema, media art and audiovisual performance and let those categories converge towards a common ground of light and sound performance.

This event is free.

With the support of VISEK and the kind friends of Filmverkstaden and Vaasa Hacklab.