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Cut&Paste 2009

2009-02-20T12:00:00.000-08:00

Was graciously invited to be a part of the judging panel for this event. Major props to those participating, talk about adrenaline sweetness!! Also my good friend Scott Barry hooked me up with this opportunity. If you haven't already seen his work, prepare to melt like a redwood tree loving the sun tooooo much

Cut&Paste
Scott Barry

Intergalactic Sugar in onedotzero festival

2008-09-03T10:26:00.000-07:00

Great news. My new Intergalactic Sugar video has just been accepted into the onedotzero film festival.

info from there site...

"onedotzero_adventures in motion 2008/09 tour is launching this month! the festival will present ground-breaking cinematic screen work, interactive installations, and explosive live audiovisual performances. the tour launches in argentina 26-28 september, then reaches zurich 2-3 oct. we are excited to return to london with new partnerships and residencies with bfi southbank + bfi imax hosting the three day festival [14-16 november] and p3 space hosting precursor interactive events and exhibitions [1 - 12 nov]. the tour then continues across asia, the americas, europe and the baltics."

onedotzero

Interstellar Sugar - Suryummy from Suryummy on Vimeo.

SF LAPTOP BATTLE

2007-11-01T12:05:00.000-07:00

Gonna throw down some AV poop at this event 11-10-2007

SF LAPTOP BATTLE

Saturated Blink

2007-07-24T21:09:00.000-07:00

It's been a bit tooo long since last time I posted. Wish I could be a true blogging warrior , complete with a frosty mug of balsa wit and constantly drenched creative flounderingssss, but whatev ehhh?! The computer can become a piece of crinkly fried toast rubbing under yer eyelids if you don't be careful.....

Here's too a lovely cute girl I know...caught her inside a saturated blink of comfy joy

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10 SPEED - lets green this city

2007-05-01T11:09:00.000-07:00

another animation that I directed....

MAGNIFY - lets green this city

2007-05-01T08:56:00.000-07:00

I recently directed, designed and animated a couple of films for PG&E. Packaging green facts into lovely animations is quit fun!

here is the web site that we created too.

http://www.letsgreenthiscity.com/

Independent Exposure: Microcinema Film Festival

2007-04-20T14:06:00.000-07:00

Two of my films have just been accepted in the Microcinema Independent Exposure Film Festival! Global Giraffe and Stratus Link will go on tour with a host of other interesting independent films and animations. The premiere screening happens on Monday April 30th at the 111 minna gallery in San Francisco.

Independent Exposure

AV performance at A+D Museum Los Angeles

2007-03-13T10:12:00.000-07:00

I have a really interesting gig coming up.....I'm being paired up with audio artist Deru to perform a DJ/VJ set at the A+D museum in LA. Its part of a 4 week series of AV shows. Check it out if your sunny or cloudy, could work both ways you know.

A+D Museum

Light Fizz on the D-FUSE

2007-02-27T19:11:00.000-08:00

Some of my work was just published in the new VJ/AV book edited by D-FUSE. I just picked it up a couple days ago......its really well done the layout is lovely and the info/imagery is pretty eye opening. Its nice to see this art form getting the proper respect.

you can pick it up here

PIXEL DANCERS

2006-12-07T18:24:00.000-08:00

I recently directed and animated this video. It was so damn fun to do....lowfi simplicity and an honest desire to see these dudes milking the concrete into a healthy garden..

JUICEY REDWOODS

2006-12-07T18:18:00.000-08:00

Its been awhile since I've posted...though I have a wonderful excuse. I just got married to my beautiful wife Crystal! Such a lovely event, juicey redwoods, sparkeling candles and loving family members pounding their hearts through the Big Sur wilderness!
I highly recommend love and all its positive attributes ;)

'vE-"jA new VJ BOOK

2006-08-09T12:15:00.000-07:00

Great news my visuals are being featured in the new VJ book that Xarene Eskandar has been working on. Its due out for release this August so keep an eye out.
info below....

'vE-"jA is a global snapshot of an exploding genre of tech-art performance: VJing and live audio-video. The book covers 40 international artists with 400+ colour images and 60+ movies and VJ clips included on an accompanying DVD.

Essay by Marius Watz brings forth the role of synchronicity of audio and video technology in cinematic performances; Barry Munstertieger, lead producer of Apple video software, focuses on the role of art in the evolution of technology; Grant Davis [VJ Culture] provides supportive information on VJ specific hardware and software; and essays by contributing artists cover local cultural aspects influencing VJ scenes globally.

http://www.vjbook.com/

AV SET at ROBOTSPEAK

2006-08-04T16:19:00.000-07:00

I just performed my first solo audio visual set at the infamous robotspeak sessions. What a cool venue and group of people. If you don't know already RobotSpeak is a super sick underground electronic music instrument store in San Francisco. They sell everything from totally tricked out monophonic earth shakers to circuit bent teletubies. Basically its a major hub for all the producers in town.

The set I performed involved a delicate balance of visual forms being triggered in arkaos by midi notes and samples coming from live. All running on one laptop. I also edited a couple of av samples that I was triggering from a dvd player. All in all it worked very well and the crowd enjoyed the show. Of course there is room for improvement. I'm trying to move slowly towards a more narrative approach. Incorporating child like story lines that will hopefully jump start the playground mechanics of our ancient child minds.

Its so damn exciing to be involved in av performance these days. I feel like the technology and know how is finally hitting a tipping point. Allowing artists to truly create captivating realtime performances that are both meaningful and thought provoking.

here is a quick edit of the performance
AV SET at ROBOTSPEAK

www.robotspeak.com

Lightrhythm AV show at SFMOMA

2006-07-28T11:24:00.000-07:00

Last week I was able to perform with other members of the lightrhythm collective. Below is the info from the event.

SAN FRANCISCO–Lightrhythm Visuals provided an evening of audiovisual art for the summer installment of the “SFMOMA Sessions” event at San Francisco’s most prestigious art venue.

SFMOMA We showed lots of new work, either for the first time in North America, or the first time anywhere. Featuring Lightrhythm artists Ben Sheppee, VJon (Jon Schwark), Suryummy, Kevlar, and lighting collective » Coil. The program will also highlight new work by international producers upcoming on the label: MMM (Tokyo), VJ Oxygen (Netherlands), Positron, Benton-C and C-TRL Labs (New York), Tom Wall and VJ Anyone (London), and VJ Culture (San Francisco).

Music for the evening was be selected tracks from from several labels and artists we have been developing relationships with including Coppe, edIT, Plaid, The fabulous Laura B, and several artists associated with Lowpro Lounge. Full music and visual setlist available here eventually, bu in the meantime, check out the » images of the show.

The event was actually a gallery party for the Xefierotarch exhibit, and there was some tie-in, but we were the main entertainment for the evening.

Album on itunes

2006-07-28T11:10:00.000-07:00

I don't know why I'm so excited about this, but I am. I guess I just think its pretty cool to know that so many people have access to my songs. dgital distribution is way too neat!

Our Polychromatic Breath up for sale!

2006-05-16T14:04:00.000-07:00

Hey all, My new album is availiable for purchase at cdbaby (link below). Plus you can listen to the first 2 min of each track at the same location. I'll keep you posted when it gets uploaded to all those digital retail nodes (itunes, napster etc....) should be within a month or so

hope you enjoy it!

PURCHASE ALBUM Our Polychromatic Breath

MAKER FAIR

2006-04-27T18:20:00.000-07:00

what a weekend. I was invited to perform at the Maker Fair VJ battle. If you have never heard about the Maker Fair, its absolutely mind crunching. It felt like Macgyver and a bunch of burning man art creatures collided in various sized airships, their mind and soul guts hitting the ground, sprouting highly intelligent and creative electrolegolized playgrounds! Outrageous and downright necessary for the creative geek in all of us. Neways here is a small video clip of me performing at the Fair, I'm the guy on the left with the turtle.

MAKER FAIR VJ BATTLE VIDEO

Those LEDs are one of the coolest things I saw there. The lights are made in individual bundles, complete with battery and magnet. The magnet is so you can throw these suckers way up onto lovely skyscraper walls and bridge towers. essentially peppering the urban landscape with your own mind bending light installations.

PUPPY LEARNS TO KONSTRUKT

2006-04-06T23:02:00.000-07:00

o and another thing, during the TOKYO tour we visited this massive corner store cage complex that semi-nurtured some of the cutest creatures ever developed by "mother nature"

TOKYO VJ CREAMPUFF MOUNTAINS

2006-03-30T21:06:00.000-08:00

Even though this happened awhile ago I thought it would be nice to post this. Back in oct 05 my VJ crew (lightrhythm visuals) and I went on a splendid tour through the lovely mechanical gardenistic clubs of Tokyo. What a lovely sequence of events this produced. It was really amazing to be throwing down our visual sets within such a vivid landscape. My fiance Crystal and I were able to chill with our good friend Shinji, who also happens to be one of the top vj's in Japan. Above all it was really great to travel and share our visual thoughts within the global framework of audio visual culture.

here are some more pics of the tour
TOKYO TOUR PICS

sunrise bumps its head and feels good!!!!

2006-03-22T23:46:00.000-08:00

Well I've finally decided to make the jump into the bloggy orb zone. With any luck this place will be a nice sounding board for my future audio/visual projects. Right now I'm working on my first AV dvd which will hopefully be released later this year. Even better though, I've just come out with the audio portion of it. Its my first professionally produced audio album and well to say the least I'm super excited and even a bit proud. The sound is kinda like a bunch of clouds having a cool discussion over a nice cup of sunlit slobber. Its a healthy sound.

I'm in the process of setting up a "pro pro" way to sell it over the internet. Untill then feel free to contact me and I could send you a copy for a small charge.

well thats it for now expect some lovely visual poo in the coming months

suryummy