SHIFT it happens – LIVE CINEMA

Es una experiencia audiovisual en vivo que surge desde el desktop de la computadora, la creación basada en el error y la saturación de contenidos virtuales. Explorar el glitch digital puede interpretarse como una forma de evidenciar el código detrás del sistema operativo para descubrir una realidad más profunda…

Este proyecto se estrenó en el marco del Festival Internacional LPM (Live Performance Meeting) que se realizó por primera vez en México en el Centro Nacional de las Artes, México D.F. También se presentó como parte del Festival Internacional de Sta. Lucía, en el Centro de las Artes, Escuela Adolfo Prieto, Monterrey, México.

BOOKINGS

IN SPITE OF… (a fragment)

As a matter of questioning the reality we are living in the city of Monterrey, which has been kidnapped by the drug war violence. This is ourway to stand up against violence, questioning many feelings as strong as fear in a poetic action that involves dance, performance, singing, closed circuit video, live cinema and projections.

Interpreted by Radha Murillo / Mezzosoprano, Dancer.
Special Guest: VjThai (Roxana T. Barraza) / Live Cinema

IN SPITE OF… a fragment,  has been presented at the Theater of the Cultural Institute of México in San Antonio, and the Little Carver Theater in San Antonio, Texas as part of the special collaboration and invitation with Seme Jatib from Proyectos en Movimiento dance company.

It also qualified and was presented as part of the national contemporary dance festival XXVII EMDC (Encuentro Metropolitano de Danza Conetmporánea) at the Gran Sala del Teatro de la Ciudad in Monterrey, México.

During summer we had 3 presentations in the Teatro del Centro de las Artes, Monterrey, as part of MOMENTS_ Contemporary Dance & Live Cinema.  It developted through 3 acts or AV performances. For which a specific projection design was developt in situ according to each of the 3 performances and individual concepts to convey different emotions.

BOOKINGS: mediaselectah@gmail.com

VjThai (Roxana T. Barraza) with Media Selectah´s collaboration, worked with dancer/singer artist Radha Murillo to developt MOMENTS a multidisciplinary performance involving dance, singing, realtime experimental video realization, video projection design, videomapping, electronic & electroacustic music, with different levels of interaction, to convey emotions and ideas about the present moment and a poetic protest against violence.

Media Selectah´s projection design Involving 2 video projectors, 1 video camera with closed circuit, live videoperformance using the softwareResolume Avenue by VjThai. Incorporating previous recordings and footage fromthe city of Monterrey, tv news, and postproduction work with Final Cut Pro.

These beautiful pictures are taken by Gen Gibler for Media Selectah.

Performance

Live Cinema · Audiovisual Concert · Dance & Multimedia · Expanded Cinema · Projection Mapping · Live Performance

CHICO SONIDO (Latinlover)_ Amor y Paz Festival.

VIDEO STILLS from the REALTIME VIDEO PERFORMANCE_

LIVE AV PERFORMANCE VIDEO REMIX_

Live Video Performance by_VJThai
for CHICO SONIDO (Latinlover)

Live Music by_Chico Sonido
PROJECTION DESIGN by_ Media Selectah
5.04.2012.

At Festival Amor & Paz 2012. PALENQUE, Real de Catorce.
San Luis Potosí. MÉXICO.

FLYER_

S.O.S en Festival Medi@rte 9.0

S.O.S. (Save Our Souls)

dirigido por  VjThai (Roxana Barraza)

Performance Arte & Multimedia
Festival Mediarte 9.0

Invitados especiales_
Dj Yesca (Sistema Local)
Dr. Ruddz (Sistema Local)

Presentado el 17.NOV.2011. Festival Medi@rte 9.0

@ Teatro del Centro de las Artes. Centro de las Artes. Parque Fundidora. Monterrey, México.

FOTOS DEL PERFORMANCE_

PRENSA_ VIDEO Periódico REFORMA.

ACERCA DEL PROYECTO_

Do we look for signs or do they find us?

Signs are in everything that is alive, everywhere.

But what signs do we see? What signals do we receive?

Are we in tune?

S.O.S Live Cinema is a multimedia art project that consists in creating an audiovisual piece in situ through the  realtime improvisation of music and visuals that interact in different ways, and suddenly create an AV conversation between ideas and feelings.

S.O.S. is divided in 4 sessions, in which VjThai explores different experimental approaches to realtime videocreation through feestyle. Using videoclips or video loops made with different processes, as the basic elements for the live visual composition.

Many feelings and ideas are evoked in a sinesthetic language that alouds for each individual to have a different experience, and therefore a different interpretation, making their own connections, opening a space/time for contemplation.

VjThai creates live video performance from her video recordings, 2D animations, photographs, edits, investigations, loops, found footage and samplings.

FLYER_

PROGRAMA_

LIGAS_

http://www.festivalmediarte.org.mx/

http://www.alianzafrancesa.org.mx/ 

http://www.conarte.org.mx/ 

Fotos por_ Genevieve Gibler para Media Selectah.
http://www.flickr.com/ggibler 

Sinaloa Art Museum (MASIN), Sinaloa Cultural Festival.

LATINSIZER (Static Records) _Festival FMEL Chicago

Improvisation & Creation of real time visuals  for the artists

_LATINSIZER (MX/ Static Records) – LIVE ACT

LATIN ELECTRONIC MUSIC FESTIVAL (FMEL) / 4th Edition.
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. USA.
NOCTURNE SHOWCASE also with Clorofila (MX/ Nacional Records), Kampion (MX/ Static Discos), Vj Gabriel Noguez (LA/Cargo Collective).

VIDEO_

PHOTOS_

Photos by Carolina Sánchez & Ariel Escarcega for FMEL & Media Selectah.

ABOUT_

In this festival I had the opportunity to do what I love the most, to travel and to improvise live visuals with total freedom. I got an invitation from the FMEL Chicago to do various live performances with Mexican electronic artists, to work for the very first time.

For the Static Records showcase with Kampion and Latinsizer, I listened their songs a few days before the show in Chicago city, just to have an idea. I didn´t want to have any references to their visual style, so I could create only based on the music. The sounds kept echoing in my mind, looking for images in my internal hard disk, and so they try to come out at the live performance, where I get to meet the artist at last while performing.

To visualize the live act of Latinsizer, I tried to create visual atmospheres, using a lofi aesthetic and a bit of vintage science fiction, inspired maybe in the original version of TRON the movie.

Video recordings of obsolete games to create visual sequences, remixing digitizing errors, and a bit of what I like to call Mexican glitch, are some of the futuristic effects done with the primitive techniques that I love.

With the Live Performance of experimental video and free improvisation, one is in the searching for moments of synchronicity between music and visuals. It is an  exercise that requires intuition, some kind of telepathy and a fun attitude to project a multimedia experience.

_*_

Thai

LINKS_

http://fmelchicago.org/
 

http://staticdiscos.com

KAMPION (Static Records)_ FMEL Chicago.

Improvisation & Creation of real time visuals  for the artists

LECTURE – Latin Electronic Music Festival

Lecture_ Live Cinema by VjThai.

for Latin Electronic Music Festival (FMEL).

At Chicago Art Department.

Chicago, Illinois. USA.

24.08.2011.

PHOTOS_
by Yair López. FMEL. 

MEDIA_ 

Seme Jatib & Radha Murillo – IN SPITE OF…

Visual concept, design  & realization by VjThai & Media Selectah
Improvisation & Creation of real time visuals  for  multimedia theater presentation by VjThai.

IN SPITE OF…
contemporary dance_live cinema & music

Cultural Institute of México in San Antonio.
San Antonio, US. April. 2011.

PARTICIPANTS_

Directed by Seme Jatib
Coreography & Interpretation: Seme Jatib y Radha Murillo
Experimental visual realization & Live Cinema  by Roxana T. Barraza
Music by Enrique Camacho, DJ Ruddo Bashmeister / Live Mezzosoprano by Radha Murillo

PHOTOS_
Photo Stills taken by Media Selectah, from the recorded video of the presentation by  Erik Bosse.

PROGRAM_

PRESS_