For those who have not heard – please post far and wide; sign up if you can!
The ad reads:
Interactive Video workshop at Wits Digital Arts
Dates: 10 – 12 September (beginning Friday late afternoon, full day Saturday and Sunday)
Course Leader: nathaniel stern
Cost: R600
Who should attend: visual artists, VJs, performance artists, video practitioners and anyone interested in real time interactions between images, sound and performance.
Venue: The interactive media design lab at WSOA Digital Arts
Leading New Media artist nathaniel stern ( http://nathanielstern.com ), a graduate of the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University, and lecturer on the Wits School of Arts’ Digital Arts MA programme, will be leading a two and a half day hands-on introductory workshop to Interactive Video.
This discipline combines the use of video cameras and computers in order to track bodies, motion, proximity, light and color for use in interactive installation, multimedia performance, and VJing. The workshop will cover a basic intro to all of the above, as well as real-time video mixing, scrubbing and effects, and the use of sound to generate and/or interfere with video.
The workshop will utilize Max/MSP and Jitter as its development environment. This application uses a simple, graphical interface (which looks very much like a flow chart) to accomplish the artist’s goals. For more information, see http://cycling74.com
Amongst the various activities, the two and half day workshop will explore examples of Interactive Video work by contemporary artists, suggest some of the other possibilities for tracking information from the physical world through cameras, and also look at other software and hardware available for tracking and manipulating audio and video.
Basic computer literacy and an interest in making things are the only requirements. However, those who attended the physical computing workshop with Ralph Borland should feel free to bring their ADC (Milmoe) boxes for use with video!
The money earned from this workshop will be used to purchase a licensed copy of Max/MSP + Jitter for Wits, which workshop-goers will have limited use of until the end of the term.
For more information, or to sign up, contact Ms Natalia Fiandeiro, WSOA Digital Arts, (011) 7174663 or fiandeiron@artworks.wits.ac.za
