24.10.2007
I stop saying sorry right now, but you will find new Blogentries here from time to time. Not weekly or monthly but slowly it´s getting more Information on Urban Projections.

So what do we have this time?

First a really nice Projection called "In Out 1.0" in Nancy France. I really like their projections but at the same time i think the video is so good because of the sound, editing and the really good filming. I think that makes a big difference than seeing it live. See it here.


In Out 1.0 in Nancy, France

The "Installation fase at planet prozess berlin" is just great. It plays with live footage, videogame graphics and real painted elements at the same time. Don´t miss this one!


Fuse Installation at Planet Process, Berlin, Germany

Rhode Island School of Design Students project "pop icons of batman, patrick stewart, michael landon, political photographs and zombie videos". For sure it´s trashy. Go here.

20.07.2007
Sorry for the Delay! I was quite busy for the last months, looks like a dead site right now, but I´m trying to change that again. Found some new clips and here they are:

Projection bombing in Rio, march 2007, Liana Brazil and Russ Rive. They use live drawings and simple animations, simple but nice. Movie here.

The next comes from "Crustea" and I really like this one! Especially because it was made live. This is what he wrotes: "This is a short video I made yesterday. The idea is to project some live visuals on a building, and also play with the existing elements (doors, windows..) and light up elements separatly, in rythm with the music. Not perfectly in time, but this is live ! :)" Movie and more here.


Projection by Crustea

Flying missile in the streets of leeds. Reminds me of widlife (more Info under "Links") Movie here.

"Underground Video Art" in Norman, OK, USA on the 22th June 2007. Simple but nice black and white projection showing a guy doing different facial expressions. They filmed a lot of the bystanders reactions. Movie here.


"Underground Video Art"

A video projection on a 25-floor building in São Paulo to promote the launch of the movie Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Its commercial but worth a look. Movie here.

Some fresh stuff from TXT-healing (Taken from his website: "TXTUal Healing is an interactive public theater piece. It looks at the cell phone as a device not just to remove oneself from a physical space, but to interact with and explore it.") He travelled to Romania in June. Find pictures for that trip on his website.

26.03.2007
Urban Projection took part at the "Lange Nacht der Museen" in Stuttgart on the 17th of March. You can find some pics and a short movieclip under "work".


Urban Projection at "Lange Nacht der Museen" in Stuttgart, 17th of March 2007

07.03.2007
Lumen is a Leeds based arts organisation. They supported several projects dealing with outdoor projections. Find the supported works here. I had a look for the supported artists and found a few more sites:

Blackout Arts (a Bristol-based artist collective) and their work "Intimate" provided space for several artists to show their work in urban surroundings.

Tunnel Vision by Jasper van den Brink shows a different view of a tunnel to motorists and pedestrians. Have a look at the original movie here.

Not really "urban projection" but perhaps an interesting thing to think about is the possibility to project on water. I found the commercial way here.


"Intimate" by Blackout Arts, 2006


"Tunnel Vision" by Jasper van den Brink, 2004

23.02.2007
I was travelling for the last 2 weeks without having an internet connection so lets see what was happening.

The Graffitti Research Lab L.A.S.E.R. Tag, going BIG! Find clips, pictures, information and Links to more on their Website.

Paul Notzold aka TXT Healing and Federico Hatoum have something new going on: TXT-A-Sketch. So get your mobiles ready for the 1st and 2nd March in Rome. More Info here.


L.A.S.E.R. Tag, Photo by Urban Data on Flickr


TXT-A-Sketch

07.02.2007
Fireworks & Rockets, Visions of New America took place at the 4th of July in New York City. I couldn´t find out the year.
Artists and image-makers from around the country submitted their visions of newAmerica to be featured in the projection series. As the video played on walls and street corners a camera crew interviewed bystanders on their thoughts on the changing America.

Got a Mail from Finnland (Thanks Matti!).
Projection in the center of Rovaniemi on New Year's eve. This was created on the spot in a couple of hours. I just tried to make the projections interact with the building.See the movie here.

24.01.2007
TXTual Healing did another show in Baltimore, 20th of January. See the pictures here.


TXTual Healing

The Urban Monster Commission and their work "We only come out at night" shows monsters that attack pedestrians on the street. Check the movie.


Weonlycomeoutatnight

20.01.2007
"Sleepwalkers" done by Doug Aitken at MOMA, New York. This nighttime installation comprises eight large-scale moving images projected around the Museum and on its facades, enlivening the architecture with the nocturnal journeys of five city inhabitants...Have a look at the Website, for more pictures try flickr.


"Sleepwalkers" by Doug Aitken. Photo by "dolce vita rachel" (flickr)

17.01.2007
You can find pictures to the ongoing Project "Faces" (that takes place in Stuttgart) here.

Found another one today on YOUTUBE. Public Projections made by the "OnMediaGroup" during CMJ 2006 (NYC) at the myspace.com party. See it here.

12.01.2007
Modus Operandi art consultants curated "Light Up Queen Street 05/06 ", an annual programme of external lighting, video and sound commissions for the City of London.

"Illuminating York"
This winter York will be more beautiful in the evening than ever before. Many of the city's most treasured buildings will be bathed in light so that everyone can explore and enjoy York as much by night as by day. Read more.

If you´re staying somewhere around Brussel have a look at this:
"TOUCH" an urban interactive installation by LAb[au] from 26 December 2006 until 15 January 2007 every day between 17H00 and 01H00 on the Dexia Tower and place Rogier in Brussels, Belgium. Have a look at the Livestream.


"Touch" in Brussels

09.01.2007
From 11th to 21st of January there will be a lot of public projections in Stuttgart, Germany, in line with the 20th Stuttgarter Filmwinter. Urban Projections will participate, too. It will start on Thursday, the 11th with the work of Heinrich Breitsprecher "Burnout", 19:00 near Bohnenviertel. The next will be "Brandsatz" by optokopter on Friday the 12th at reinsburgstr. 95 (near schwabstr.) More Dates and pictures will follow soon.

Got a Mail today (Thanks Marcel!) to a fantastic french project that should spread the world! Have a look at their side and help them with your own "work of light".

FAITES DE LA LUMIERE! Worldwide on Saturday, 16 June 2007.
Transform your daily life by: Chinese shades, luminous machines, slide shows, paper cut out with the windows, of the mix vidéos, projections of film, performances illuminated, luminous fantomes, reflections of pans...Spread your lights on the panes of the cars, the edges of the pavement, the windows, the frontages, cloths suspended, the sheets of the trees...