Month: February 2012

Is It Time for a New Image? Introduction to New Media Forum

Is It Time for a New Image? was the second Forum held in Sydney in 1995 by the recently formed New Media Forum. Introduction to the forum was by Mike Leggett who introduced the four speakers: John Colette a media artist and lecturer at the College of Fine Art of the UNSW; Sally Pryor who had worked for some years with computers both as an artist and a scientist, from the University of Technology in Sydney. Darren Tofts, a lecturer in the department of literature and film at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne; and Jon McCormack, a computer animation artist and lecturer in the computer science faculty of Monash University.

The committee who organised this the second forum were: John Potts; Rebecca Cummings, Mike Leggett, Nicholas Gebhardt and Maria Stukoff. With thanks to Victoria Lynn, AGNSW for hosting and supporting the event and the AFC for providing most of the financial support.

1995
Mike Leggett

Critical Light Pathways

Critical Path is a choreographic research and development centre for dance artists in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. In September 2010, using the dichotomy of outside / inside as it relates to both body and architecture, Alan Schacher and Mike Leggett experimented with the multiplication of space and presence to generate looped choreography-image systems.The methodology alluded to historical cinema and sideshow through experimentation with camera obscura, shadows, silhouettes and auras.

2010

Mnemovie : ‘interactive montage’ engine demonstration

This 2-minute demonstration is of the ‘Sampling’ and ‘Lateral’ models made using the Mnemovie interactive engine.

Twelve 3-min mini-docs about the research in the Creativity & Cognition Studios in 2006 are sampled into a 50-second loop. By gesturing to the top of the screen, the item seen at that point is run from its head at normal speed. Gesturing to the left will run it backwards, to the right forwards; to the bottom of the screen, the titles of each movie are seen in succession each time the screen is touched. The choice is to review the work of this research group using images or words as a starting point.

In the second demonstration, using the same engine, a series of 60-sec loops of my son as he was growing up are linked laterally frame to frame: touching the top of the screen shows him older, the bottom of the screen, younger; and as before, touching the left makes the movie run in reverse.

2009
2-mins