video
paintings: (see also hybrid
performance)
At
the 'arty' end of the VJzoo.com spectrum are works we
call video paintings. These are gentle, abstracted videoscapes
that morph, dissolve and pulse.
Many
people have commented that these works look like Impressionist
paintings. Monet would sit and paint the same scene again
and again to express subtle changes in light and colour
throughout a day. We aim to capture such fleeting changes
by 'video painting' with time as well as light and colour.
Sometimes
we're lucky enough to be able to do work this abstract
and ambient at gigs, but often we do them for other contexts,
such as exhibitions, arts festivals and installations
in collaboration with sound artists.
Some
of the events we've done video paintings and hybrid performance
for include in 2005-6 include -
Some
of our video painting works include:
Views
From a Moving Vehicle 1
- download video at archive.org
Get
Naked
- download in a variety of formats - including streamed
podcasting video at archive.org/details/GetNaked
You
can also see some of our 'video painting' in the later
sections of our tour performances, which you can watch
on our events page.
We're
keen to see Video Painting develop as a genre in it's
own right - floating between VJing and Fine Art. If enough
people are interested, we'd like to develop a workshop
to teach the techniques we've developed, as with different
artists' content, they'd look completely different to
our own works (we hope!).
Video
Painting is the natural child of the centuries-old field
of "Colour Music" (aka Color Music in US) -
but only possible in this form with newly-developed software
and filters. We'd prefer to foster Video Painting's development
than keep our techniques a secret - so let us know if
you'd be interested in a DVD tutorial (or a hands-on workshop
if you want to fly us from Western Australia to wherever
you are...). If there's sufficient demand, we're happy
to share the techniques.
Screenshots
of these video paintings make some quite beautiful still
images, so we've harvested some and made them available
for use as free desktop wallpapers in a variety of common
sizes.
Choose
your preferred image to the right and your screen resolution.
If it's for your correct desktop setting size, it should
fit perfectly without stretching or distorting the image.
If
you like a lot of plain space for your icons, you could
alternatively choose the smallest size (800x600), specify
a black background and center the image. Depending on
your resolution, that should give you a fair bit of black
space for your icons. |
