Bertrand Gondouin - Generative Art

Multimedia as a helping device in dance teaching and choreographic process

Bertrand Gondouin — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:00:00 +0000

I'm giving a workshop and lectures at the Choreography Department of Tallinn University,Estonia.24-26th april 2008.

What happen when the body becomes the only interface ? How can the body learn, play and compose an audio-visual artifact ? How does it affect creativity and emotion. Can the body function as a visual instrument ?

Topics:

Presentation of the Laeterna Machine Digital Dance Collective
Overview of electronic devices, sensors and their usage
Overview of mainstream electronic devices and their usage
Live video mixing history and interactive visuals software
The virtual space: Social Networks and VR
Drawing in space: from gesture to artificial intelligence

Workshops:

Live Video Editing, Motion Tracking, Video Publishing on the internet, 3D drawing with the Wii Controller. and my Tag Cloud!

fLiM - Nordic Light Hotel - Stockholm

Bertrand Gondouin — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:00:00 +0000

I'm in charge of the live visuals for the first fLiM!

fLiM will be a once-a-week hang out place for lovers of ambient, electronica and visuals at Nordic Light Hotel in Stockholm, starting January 9th 2008.

Guest DJ: Ola Bergman (New Speak)
Guest VJ: Bertrand Gondouin

Onsdagar | 20-01 | Nordic Light Hotel
Gratis inträde | 18 år

Grains & Pixels Lecture at the Open in Process event, London

Bertrand Gondouin — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:30:00 +0000

Grains & Pixels is giving an open lecture on AI in the context of performance at the Open In Process Event in London.

Open in Process body>data>space | Tue 5th June 2007 | 6.30-9.30pm | 3GBP

body>data>space are hosting two more exciting 'Open in Process' events in May & June. These nights take place as live open debate & presentation events focusing on the making processes for interactive arts. Speakers for the 5th June - Grains & Pixels (Sweden) working with AI & performance and Paul Sermon (UK) well known internationally for his pioneering work with telematics. More info & how to book

body>data>space merge live audio-visual interaction with telematics and the new generation of intelligent materials and wearables computers. body>data>space takes installations and live performances into large-scale public environments and architectural builds, shifting the relationship between the artist, the media/content and the user/audience.

Grains & Pixels and VJ Bertranol awarded by the Prix Möbius Nordica Experimental, Pixelache Highlights 2007

Bertrand Gondouin — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 22:00:00 +0000

Prix Möbius Nordica competition and Pixelache together decided to give special awards to some of the most interesting projects in the Nordic VJ Meeting.
The jury members were Eva Bischof-Herlbauer & Gery Herlbauer (Austria) from 4youreye / Eye|Con, Gabor Kitzinger aka VJ Rio Rokoko (Hungary) and Nordic VJ Meeting programme director Petri Ruikka.

- Propaganda from Estonia
Because of the energy of their VJ performance and their skill in interpreting the music into images and visual rhythms. Their work takes into account the essential elements of VJing: the space, the audience, the other performers and the music.

- VJ Bertranol / Grains & Pixels performance
Creating a new platform for and at the same time looking into the future possibilities of integrated audiovisual performance. Creative approach in integrating real-time footage into live performance on digital platform.

- Bottega Arete + VJ Samesame + Casper Obro
Creative collaboration by using several VJ outputs together in an interesting way in live performance. Fresh and unexpected footage and the skill in taking into account the relation between the footage and display set-up.

Grains & Pixels at Pikseliähky // Pixelache 2007

Bertrand Gondouin — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 15:00:00 +0000

Grains & Pixels is invited to play at Pixelache 2007 ! 2007-04-01 15:00 Kiasma Theatre, Helsinki

Pixelache is a festival of electronic art and subcultures. Pixelache presents projects experimenting with media and technology from a broad range of disciplines: artists, engineers, designers, researchers and architects. Pixelache focuses especially in presenting activities of various international grassroot networks and communities such as the VJ community, media activists, the open source community and the demoscene.The goal of Pixelache festival is to act as a bridge between the traditional creative disciplines and rapidly developing electronic subcultures.

Grains & Pixels rehearsal in the Placard: Live cinema without the cinema

Bertrand Gondouin — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:00:00 +0000

the placard headphone festival → 2007 → PlacardX -Pixelache helsinki - saturday

Grains & Pixels is having a rehearsal during the Placard Headphone festival. It's almost impossible to play without the visual feedback, but that's the challenge!

.16:00 (EEST) .Grains & Pixels. - .Grains & Pixels. - (+) - .Live cinema without the cinema.

Grains & Pixels at Nordiskt Avantgardenätverk

Bertrand Gondouin — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 12:38:00 +0000

2005-11-25/26, Stockholm, Sweden The 2nd Annual Conference of the Nordic Network of Avant-Garde Studies, Stockholm November 25-26: "Avant-Garde and Technology" with Lev Manovich and Douglas Kahn.

Grains & pixels will be shown at the Campus Café during the conference.

Some Topics (full program):

Norwegian Radio Avant-Garde. New and old?
The Distorted Voice - Music, Technology and Trauma
Technologos. The Palingenetic Universe of F.T. Marinetti
Love and the Doppelgänger About Film and Henry Parland’s Sönder
”For an ’Arrière-garde’”; Jean Epstein’s Theory of Art and Technology
Fluxus Haptics - On Haptic Visuality and Visual Strategies of the Fluxus Movement
The Power of Limited Self Will - Cage’s silence vs. Ghostigital’s noise

Scramble

Bertrand Gondouin — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 14:45:00 +0000

The Scramble software is my playground when experimenting with live video. It's a kind of Magic Lantern into which you can throw any kind of picture and animate it – I feed scramble with my own drawings, videos or photos – or start drawing from scratch in a 3D space.

Scramble has its roots in film history. One of its animation effects is a remake of the Zoetrope, a pre-cinema technology. Inspired by Orson Welles, I have also created a Soft/Deep Focus effect that simulates the depth of field of the traditional camera.

Technical details:

Unlimited numbers of layers
GPU image processing with shaders
Live video input, and image grabbing
Controls: sensors, midi, audio, Internet
Output: HDTV resolution 1920*1080
Language: Max/Msp/Jitter