‘A HERMIT’S MOVIE IV: IN TREES’
A performance by Barry Sykes.
Friday, 25 November 2011 at 18:00
Immersive Vision Theatre [http://goo.gl/VVDUM],
Plymouth University,
Plymouth, Devon, PL48AA.
Barry Sykes stages an updated version of his ambitious performance lecture written for and about The Immersive Vision Theatre, Plymouth University’s 1967 concrete planetarium, now repurposed by i-DAT to present state-of-the-art immersive visualisations.
The event is free, to book please go to: http://barrysykesatidat.eventbrite.com
Constantly surprising and entertaining, this sprawling multimedia monologue invokes astronomy, astrology, error, understanding, karaoke, Van Gogh, Versailles, An elm tree, and the mechanics of comedy and cinema. Originally written and performed whilst Sykes was artist in residence at Plymouth Arts Centre in 2010/11 he has been invited to present it again as a Constellation event alongside the British Art Show 7.
This event also offers an opportunity to gain access to the Immersive Vision Theatre’s 40 seat auditorium.
Supported and developed by i-DAT, Commissioned by Plymouth Arts Centre.
“Barry Sykes’s life as an artist has taken him down some offbeat, and perhaps not strictly legal, avenues. His artworks-cum-social experiments include impersonating a part-time police community support officer and replicating/ripping off work by such strange bedfellows as romantic minimalist Cerith Wyn Evans and painter Karel Appel. He’s even got his dad to realise work for him, as with a series of photos carried out according to his instructions. Trust, originality and morality rank among this trickster’s quarry, in projects that unpick what goes on behind the scenes in art.”
(Skye Sherwin, The Guardian, January 2011)
Biography
Barry Sykes (1976 Lives and works in London) has a diverse practice involving sculpture, drawing, photography, video and performance. Recent solo exhibitions include ‘I Am Not him And I Do Not Have Your Pen’ Late at Tate, Tate St Ives, 2011; ‘Recreate A Nervy Pistol (An Early Retrospective), Plymouth Arts Centre, 2011; ‘The Desperate Designer’, Gallop, London, 2009; ‘I Was Born On The Day Heidegger Died (But I Don’t Know Much About His Work)’, i-cabin, London, 2008. He has been in recent group shows at Tate Modern, London; ArtSway, New Forest; Project Space 11, Plymouth; UCL, London and Goldsmith’s College, London. He has recently delivered talks and performances at Tate St Ives, Tate Modern and Spike Island, Bristol and The University of the Arts. London.
Aggregator v1.0 builds on a suite of creative ‘tools’ or ‘operating systems’ that dynamically manifest ‘data’ as an abstract and invisible material, forming a mirror image of our world and reflecting, in sharp contrast and high resolution, our biological, ecological and social activities.
Aggregator v1.0 generates an audio/visual immersive experience of data feeds from web 2.0 platforms, news feeds, networks, buildings, and satellites all orchestrated through subtle audience interaction.
Aggregator v1.0 is a evolving generative performane and the audience is able drop in and out during the session.
Aggregator v1.0 coding and composition by Pete Carss.
Aggregators: Pete Carss and Mike Phillips.
Aggregator v1.0 is a component of the Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival 2010
Date: Saturday 27 February.
Venue: Immersive Vision Theatre.
Time: 12:00pm - 4:00pm.
Admission: FREE.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDyk9rj6QGo
Live coding application - Fluxus (care of Dave Griffiths):
Audio feeds:
PALAOA Audio Observatory (microphone under ice)
http://icecast.awi.de:8000/PALAOA.MP3
Air Traffic Control:
http://mso.liveatc.net:80/khnd1
http://aus.liveatc.net:80/sbbr_acc
Calm noises:
http://www.whitenoise247.com/Sounds/CalmSeaWaves.wav
http://www.whitenoise247.com/Sounds/river_full.wav
Natural Radio:
http://mp3.nasa-us.speedera.net:8000/mp3.nasa-us/florida1
http://67.207.143.181:80/vlf15
http://194.116.73.37:8000/pontese124.m3u
http://icecast.nis.nasa.gov:8000/florida1
http://picasso.astro.ufl.edu:8000/icy_1
Radio Astronomy:
http://28.72.128.252:8000/radast
Fluxus sample code:
;(require fluxus-016/drflux)
(require fluxus-017/planetarium)
;(set-dome-mode! #t)
(smoothing-bias 2)
(clear)
;(clear-colour 0)
;(blur 0.1)
;(fog (vector 0.1 0.1 0.1) 0.2 0.01 0.1)
(ortho)
(define dome (dome-build 10 180 2048))
; buffersize and samplerate need to match jack’s
(start-audio “MPlayer” 1024 48000)
(define (render count)
(cond
((not (zero? count))
(translate (vector 0.1 0.1 (* 10 (gh 4))))
(scale (vector 2 2 1))
(rotate (vector (gh 4) (gh 5) (gh 6) ))
(colour (vector (* 0.5 (gh 4)) 0.2 (* 0.5 (gh 10))
0.3))
(opacity 0.3)
(draw-torus)
(render (- count 1)))))
;(with-state
;(rotate (vector 0 -25 0))
;(render (- count 1))
;(draw-cube)
;set the view of the camera
(dome-setup-main-camera 1400 1050)
(every-frame
(with-pixels-renderer (dome-pixels)
(with-state
;(rotate (vector 0 0 (* 90 (cos(/ (time) 10)))))
(translate (vector 0 0 -100)) ; move it into view
(render 10)))
