http://4shrooms.blogs.sonance.net where analogue expression gets mushed into pixels and digits Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:21:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_48" align="alignright" width="256" caption="andi on oils, oils on tent"][/caption] back from Symposion Lindabrunn and our first cut of Lux Ludica.  I'm attempting to upload some imagery, but failing dismally, it seems that TCP of greater that 80k is now banned across the english channel. Fixed, the problem was closer to ... http://4shrooms.blogs.sonance.net/2008/09/28/1st-piccies-luxludica-ad-hoc-fast-demo/ st9fan posted these pictures in a dark corner of the net, but to no avail, we found 'em: These were taken at Meran, Italy at the recent [un]defined event in parallel with Manifesta. After much pushing and shoving, we agreed to try projecting directly on the concrete of the parade ground. Much to ... http://4shrooms.blogs.sonance.net/2008/09/10/spotted-on-the-net/ We have now purchased a number of slide projectors and lenses. One projector is a Kodak Carousel to play around with and get experience.  We are more or less agreed that we will stick to Kodak Carousel types for the future, because they are heavy, high quality, as bright as it ... http://4shrooms.blogs.sonance.net/2008/08/31/new-projectors-and-lenses/ Doris + Jan return from Meran, Italy, where we performed a sort of mini-shrooms (2shrooms?) show in support of the various other artists. This included 2 technical workshops on PureData, a program for driving electronic music and visuals, etc. We had to be very careful because our analogue visuals easily ... http://4shrooms.blogs.sonance.net/2008/08/31/meran-italy/ Last Friday night under Pooool's projections at Karlskirche, the 4shrooms inducted the newest member into our bosum:  Marc Kössler, also known as deepfjord.  Marc does all sorts of visual stuff like: "Maskierte und unmaskierte Ausschnitte, Einblicke und Bruchstücke grenzenloser Spielräume zwischen Technik, Natur und Fiktion."  Yeah! Projections at Karlskirche were ... http://4shrooms.blogs.sonance.net/2008/06/22/then-we-were-9-welcome-to-marc/ Nuestro amigos La Trinchera del México D.F. performan en la clausura del festival Performagia 2008. Aqui una imagen solamente, y notícias que crecen y crecen como una tribu!? Los trincheritos ya cuentan ocho amigos, dos invitados y cinco músicos. Saludos de Viena a Rafael, Morris, Aisel, Elena, Viviana, y ... http://4shrooms.blogs.sonance.net/2008/06/03/la-trinchera-en-performagia/ More projections than Sigmund Freud's waiting room! We had a lucky 13 beams in all, across both sides of the Radowan hall in Yppenplatz. Including our new, tiny €1 two-slide antique. Soho also saw for the first time ever all 8 shroomies on performance, and for the second night, ... http://4shrooms.blogs.sonance.net/2008/05/29/soho-in-ottakring/ Call to all shroomies, do we have photos of LifeBall? Rumours that we made the national news are still unconfirmed, but as one wit observed, a 30 second spot still leaves us 14 and a half minutes of fame in the bank account. Notable highlights: a wonderful stage put us in ... http://4shrooms.blogs.sonance.net/2008/05/29/lifeball-has-come-and-gone/ a toast to the journalist who signs fair in the culture/fineart/media section of derStandard! long life, health, happiness and whatever else they wish to the castyourart podcast team of Juan-Pablo, Ewa and Wolfgang! here it is ... der STANDARD ARTICLE: Unter sich drehenden Kuchentellern http://4shrooms.blogs.sonance.net/2008/04/15/thanks-to-castyourart-4shrooms-makes-derstandard/ CastYourArt feels the magic! They have now posted up the video they made of 4shrooms. It was based on the delfin interview, and used lots of footage from recent and old performances. Even La Trinchera footage from the Sammlung Essl performance was slipped in! Check it out, share ... http://4shrooms.blogs.sonance.net/2008/04/03/castyourart-analog-synergy-in-a-digital-world/