4shrooms4u Progress Report!
The 4shrooms4u project has reached a mid-way point in its evolution, and a progress report is called for!
We have created 7 clips of our analogue practices. Each clip was produced with one of the shroomies as the actor/artist, and others in supporting roles. Each presents a particular technique in projection art which can be hopefully easily absorbed and advanced by the budding shroomita.
Technical details: most clips were captured with the Panasonic NV-DX1 or the Sony DCR-VX1000E. They were shot in a 60 minutes session at Studio HollerG, and then cut them using FinalCutPro. Pablo cutter for all. Camera was by Pablo Naranjo, Georg and Doris. Backing soundtracks by Georg Hofman, Hermann Bühler and Doris.
In addition to this, we’ve created a single, longer presentation in video form of one performance, expressing the combination of many artists and many techniques in an unusual setting. This is by way of bringing all the elements together for the 4shrooms4u audience, and presenting a challenging target. The performance was done at night, outside in the ampitheatre at Symposion Lindabrunn, a quarry / sculpturing retreat south of Vienna.
Work so far done was achieved primarily with funding from NetzNetz/MA7-Stadt Wien, the self-contributions of our shroomie artists, and some equipment from CastYourArt.
The next step is to take each of these clips and wrap them into a presentation layer using standard net techniques: website and DVD. Each clip deserves one page, with text of explanation and artistic merit, accompanied by technical instructions. The pages need to be collected into a cohesive system, for which we have created a new blog called 4shrooms4u. That blog is the first attempt, as it easily lays out a page-by-page collection, and allows basic formatting and presentation. Our current task is how to embed the video into the blog posting. So far, it looks like all the plugins only support google or youtube video.
