The final night of .MOV features three distinct live video performances from artists in Portland, Denver, and Austin. Each artist presents a unique, real-time exploration of sound and image. not to be missed! This is live, experimental work that challenges traditional performance. This is the festival’s finale—come celebrate with us!
MSHR "Network Entity " (USA)
For this audiovisual performance, MSHR has designed a digital system that links visual and sonic parameters using open-source software. The duo improvises with the system via a handmade sculptural interface to unfold a series of compositions for video projection and four-channel sound. The result is a kind of live cinema in which visual and sonic shapes mutate through mutual interaction, guided by the players.
Colorado Premiere
Phillip David Stearns "Coplanar Nations: Israel & Palestine [LIVE]" (USA)
Coplanar Nations: Israel & Palestine is a hypnotic overlap of moving and flying geometric shapes laced with static, in the colors of those two country’s flags: blue, white, black, green, and red." -- Caroline Stover describing the fixed video work in the Linear Abstraction for the 21st Century exhibition at SCAD in 2015.
Z-fighting is an artifact that arises in 3D rendering engines when the rendering order of two coplanar surfaces interfere with one another in the z-buffer. This interference creates artifacts that manifest as flickering, moire or tearing of the color/texture assigned to the surface shader.
Coplanar Nations is a body of work that employs the use of z-fighting to dramatize open armed conflicts between modern nations, states, peoples and governing bodies by mapping flags as textures onto coplanar surfaces in order to force-render a "compromised state", a resolution that is never fully resolved.
While the fixed video work has been screened in the US and abroad, this is the first time the work has been revisited and developed for live performance.
Kyle Evans "bitwhisper.exe" (USA)
bitwhisper.exe is a live audio-visual performance that blends abstraction and rhythm, navigating the fragile terrain between structure and collapse. Visuals flicker like corrupted memory, responding in real time to whispered frequencies and fractured beats. The performance examines AV alignment as a dynamic system that invites both immersion and disorientation. It is a meditation on digital instability, and the human instinct to find meaning in abstract sound and image.
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