What better way than to project on a converted church, that is now a residence (which we found out later). This all went down on a beach in Royan France. Part of Les Grandes Traversees festival. And many thanks to my assistant Emilie Jung, seen on the beach below.
The strange character lurks along the wall while people in the street text message into it’s thought bubble. The interactive bubble reveals the characters inner thoughts, as it tracks the characters movements. This collaboration piece involved myself with Jared Gradinger and Pictoplasma. This piece was made during Les Grandes Traversees festival in Bordeaux France in July of 2010.
Pulling frames from the 1960’s marvel animated classic series, The Return of Captain America, is now powered by your text messages. An audience sending in text messages triggers the movie frames to play forward and places their sms as the next line of dialogue. This piece was first shown in April 2009 at Le Ferme du Buisson just outside of Paris.
Oh if only tiger woods had this piece, he could have sext’d in private. In this full motion interactive sex projection the audience text messages in the thoughts of the woman painted gold f***ing. I couldn’t have shot this piece without the open minded actress Cara Provenzano. The piece has been making it’s rounds from NYC to France. Kool Keith enjoyed her so much he had her open his concert at the Gramercy/Blender theater in 2009. Video is in French and English
March 7th, Saturday night at the Chelsea Art Museum. Actors in the windows paired with SMS created dialogue sent from passersby in the street. NYPD swung by to check it out, they are huge fans.
Performances by Anna Fikhman, Ellpetha Tsivicos, Noah Miller, John Zurek.
Special Thanks: Sam Bardaouil, Till Felrath, Gemma Lumley, Nicollette Ramirez, Louisa St. Pierre
The video is put to the song ‘Skeleton’ by the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s.
‘The Only Certainty, Death and TXT’s’ Interactive Installation commissioned for The Leonardo for the Body Worlds exhibit in SLC. It ran from from October 08 - January 09. While people were working through the lines to the exhibit they could pass time by making a 30 foot projection of a skeleton speak by text messaging in the dialogue. The skeleton animates into different poses when it receives a text.
Special Thanks: Kersten Swinyard, Dennis Evans, and Alexandra Hesse
…and the only reason we pulled this off were the countless volunteers that kept this running for 4 months!
Skeleton animation done by Miguel Sanchez
The Only Certainty, Death and TXT’s from paul notzold on Vimeo.
For the past ten days my friend Soren Sorensen and I criss-crossed Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and PA working for the Obama Campaign ground game… I’m happy to say we had a clean sweep of the states we visited, though Indiana was a toughy. Here are some of the results from the interactive projections we put up in the cities we swung through. Participants were invited to text message up to the display, answering the question “I’m Voting Because…” The content was sent in from people on the street showing there support for new possibility.
Along our trip we were called faggots, socialists, communists, terrorists, and witnessed Obama stickers being torn off of cars at rest stops. We met all the negativity with polite smiles and recording equipment. BUT this is not par for the course, we were greeted with thank you’s, cheering and positive support from A LOT of wonderful people. We spent Halloween on the Ohio State University where the local campaign office created a dance party in the streets. People were excited out here, and there was electicity in the air.
More updates and a thorough recap of the trip coming soon. Some photos below:
From State College Pennsylvania… Slightly pre-mature on Monday night, but more than appropriate now!!
Pittsburgh, PA:
I was invited over to Brussels by the wonderful folks at Square to celebrate the year before opening their meeting center with some interactive projecting. The nights before the scheduled party I brought my bicycle cart and went out on the town. With help from local Joris De Beer, we set up a projection in front of the EU parliament. Pictures from parliament projecting and the party below.
This is text message enabled freestyle rap. The story telling ability of freestyle rap fed with user generated content via text messaging allows those that are not so rhyme inclined to hand over their ideas to those that are more lyrically enabled. The live release was at BLVD in Manhattan. An audience text messages in the content that they want the MC’s to freestyle from. The messages are fed to the MC’s via a monitor on the stage, the messages are also projected large behind the rhymers fo rthe audience to see. This ain’t easy people, the MC’s have no idea what’s coming next. MC’s involved: NYC aka Never Yet Contested, Jah-C, Folk Lore, and The 1SHANTI. DJ - KUNAL MERCHANT.
We are guns for hire….
Putting up speech bubbles in Calgary. Had a great time working with Truck, Ideal, and the New Gallery. Check out the new fast attack bike cart that I developed with Aaron Wieler. It unfolds to create a mobile projection platform, and then packs in on itself for check in at the airport. Perfect for that jet setting lifestyle.
TXTual Healing July 19, 2008.
