Harlequin, 2010

new piece going to be shown in Territories show @ Vers10n Fest this week in Bridgeport, Chicago. Final version of this will include video component. this animated gif gives u a flavor of the piece and what this video piece will eventually look like.

Opening Of Version Festival
Territories Group Exhibition
@ Zhou B Center (1029 W 35th St)
www.zbcenter.org
7-10pm – exhibition runs through May 3

Opening night of Version 10 begins with Territories, a group exhibition. Meet participating artists and get an advanced look at the festival program ahead. Features work by: Tomas Moreno, Chad Gerth, Hui-min Tsen, Chris Larson, Hideous Beast (Josh Ippel, Charlie Roderick), Tim Graham, Jennifer Mills, Xavier Nuez, Miguel Guzman, Monument 1.5, Alexa Loftus, Peter Feigenbaum, Aron Gent, Aaron Delehanty, Holly Holmes, Before Cake after Dinner, Se Young, Brian Murer, Erik DeBat, Sarah Ross, Bill Mackey, Mike Slattery, Tom Burtonwood, Kariel ( Karri Kuoppala and Muriel Laesser),  Heloisa Escudero, Jeff Zimmerman,  Lise Haller Baggesen, Gitte Bog, Gudrun Hasle, Anni Holm, Berit Nørgaard, & Niels Post.

Curated by Dayton Castleman & Ed Marszewski

(Exhibition runs through May 3rd, Open Sat 12-5pm and by appointment: 773 837 0145)

Translations from tom burtonwood on Vimeo.

Translations from tom burtonwood on Vimeo.

Translations (with Jacob C. Hammes)
Digital video with audio
Running time 5 mins
Edition of 300
2010

(Live) Translations from tom burtonwood on Vimeo.

Translations, projected / performed live at Three Walls as part of Chasing Two Rabbits. Thank you to Jacob C. Hammes for his awesome musical accompaniment / score. Big thank you to Andrew Rigsby, Travis Saul and R James Healy for their help with all things animation, Maya & Final Cut. Also many thanks to Shannon Stratton and Sonia Yoon for organizing the event and asking me to take part.

first draft of the new animation for threewalls screening on friday, i’m really happy with some bits of this, other bits need to be tweaked, but i’ve got like 3-4 more sequences ready to plug in and a few more that haven’t been made in maya yet, but i’m liking the retro, glitchy feel to the visuals and loving the unfolding cubes….. now if only i could make these in real life… if you wanna see this finished and projected on a wall with awesome musical accompaniment hustle on over to threewalls on friday.

here’s a sneak preview of one of the sequences for the upcoming screening at Three Walls on friday, it cuts off a bit a the beginning and runs a bit fast but i’ll fix that for friday. Events details are as follows:

Friday February 26, 2010

Chasing Two Rabbits

Friday, February 26^th, 2010.

Doors at 6pm, Program starts at 7pm

Suggested Donation: $10.00

Chasing Two Rabbits is a special event curated by Sonia Yoon and Shannon Stratton that pairs animators with live performances by sound artists and musicians. Inspired by the experimental films of Norman McLaren, who combined abstract imagery (including scratching and painting into the film stock in earlier work, as well as paper cut-outs and live action and dance) with imaginative music and sound, Chasing Two Rabbits, acts to pair artists in both genres to produce a unique event where, rather than leaving art to illustrate a story, perhaps sound and vision will illuminate each other.

The program for the evening will include animations by Gracen Brilmyer, Peter Burr, Tom Burtonwood, Dana Carter, Jodie Mack, Tracy Taylor, and Rebecca Schoenecker with sound by The Chicago Phonographers, Chris Hammes, Eric Zeigenhagen, Steve Lacy, Frank Van Duerm, Kotoka Suzuki, Cait Stevens, George Monteleone and Broken Chooser.

“If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.”

Permutation_495 from tom burtonwood on Vimeo.

i have to say after a month or so of working on this piece i;m not really all that happy with it. in the spirit of keeping this public “studio” honest and complete i decided to post the animation. it’s hard to say exactly what irks me about this, i think when i started out i didn’t really think about how the different frames would relate in sequence, each frame by itself is exciting and stimulating, but seen together in sequence they don’t really convey the idea i have been shooting for. i culled them down to 7 or 8 frames that seemed to work well together from a possible group of 50 or so. without much further ado i’m going to pull this one off the animation stand and start fresh.

stay tuned.

Permutations 2.0, frame from animation.

Making progress now on the second Permutations animated short. work on the first Permutations animation has ground to a halt. hopefully will get this done soon also.

This sequence is missing a section from the end, where the cube will re-form from a spinning plane– will post this l8tr