WORKSHOP >>>
Introduction to Isadora – The Video Installation Toolbox
Sat 14 & Sun 15 Sept 2024 @ Videogrape, Montreal - $125 CAD
https://www.videographe.org/en/workshop/introduction-to-isadora-the-video-installation-toolbox/
I'm giving a two day beginners workshop for video artists who want to learn how to present their work as installations. This is ideal starter for anyone who is interested in working with video in a more flexible manner - exploring non linear navigation, incorporating randomness, real time effects, syncing video and screens, and basic projection mapping.
We will be using the media arts software Isadora - a really powerful toolkit which is thankfully very easy to get started with. It's must quicker to grasp than Touch Designer or using Brightsigns, but alsoextremely flexible. If you have an old mac mini lying around, you can give it a new lease of life as your video server! I used it most recently for presenting some of the works in SVP REmbobinez, including the Karaoke For ONe piece, which is still up and running.
The course includes a free 1 month isadora license. There are only 6 places I believe, so you'll need to sign up quick!
full details here: https://www.videographe.org/en/workshop/introduction-to-isadora-the-video-installation-toolbox/
EXHIBITION >>>
PUNCHCARD ECONOMY: 8 HOURS LABOUR
24 / 7: Work between meaning and imbalance
1st May 2024 > 19th January 2025 @ Kunsthauz Graz, Austria
PERFORMANCE >>> 14 JUNE >>> https://www.museum-joanneum.at/en/kunsthaus-graz/our-programme/calendar/event/sam-meech-1
LIVE STREAM @ https://www.youtube.com/@videosmithery/live
https://www.museum-joanneum.at/en/kunsthaus-graz/our-programme/exhibitions/event/24-7-2
I will be performing a new version of my '8 Hours Labour' work in June as part of an exibition on labour in Graz. Curated by Katia Huemer and cuocurated byt Martin Grabner, 24 / 7: Work between meaning and imbalance brings together many artists looking at our relationship to work and time.
The exhibition examines the often precarious aspects of artistic and cultural work, posing questions about the blurring of boundaries between letting oneself be exploited and self-realisation.
My contribution will simply be my 'work' - 8 hours of knitting on a brother punchcard machine, as an attempt to move focus away from the art object and towards the act of artistic labour. I say 'simply', but in reality this decision has dramatically inscreased the amount of admin and planning involved, so once again I seem to have fashioned a rod for my own back. Why is there always so much work invovled just to get to the work? Still, I'm looking forward to it.
The (insane) list of exhibiting artists includes:
Maja Bajević, Julien Berthier, Louisa Clement, Manuel Correa & Marina Otero Verzier, Jeremy Deller, Antje Ehmann & Harun Farocki & Eva Stotz, Aldo Giannotti, Liam Gillick, Lisa Großkopf, Andreas Gursky, Michael Hieslmair & Michael Zinganel, Tehching Hsieh, Johanna Kandl, Peter Kogler, Luiza Margan, Pia Mayrwöger, Sam Meech, Michail Michailov, Elisa Giardina Papa, Nika Radić, Martha Rosler, Sebastian Schmieg & Silvio Lorusso, Christoph Schwarz, Selma Selman, Santiago Sierra, Lia Sudermann & Simon Nagy, KURS (Miloš Miletić, Mirjana Radovanović), Oliver Walker
WORKSHOP >>>
Introduction to Isadora – The Video Installation Toolbox
Sat 14 & Sun 15 Sept 2024 @ Videogrape, Montreal - $125 CAD
https://www.videographe.org/en/workshop/introduction-to-isadora-the-video-installation-toolbox/
I'm giving a two day beginners workshop for video artists who want to learn how to present their work as installations. This is ideal starter for anyone who is interested in working with video in a more flexible manner - exploring non linear navigation, incorporating randomness, real time effects, syncing video and screens, and basic projection mapping.
We will be using the media arts software Isadora - a really powerful toolkit which is thankfully very easy to get started with. It's must quicker to grasp than Touch Designer or using Brightsigns, but alsoextremely flexible. If you have an old mac mini lying around, you can give it a new lease of life as your video server! I used it most recently for presenting some of the works in SVP REmbobinez, including the Karaoke For ONe piece, which is still up and running.
The course includes a free 1 month isadora license. There are only 6 places I believe, so you'll need to sign up quick!
full details here: https://www.videographe.org/en/workshop/introduction-to-isadora-the-video-installation-toolbox/
EXHIBITION >>>
PUNCHCARD ECONOMY: 8 HOURS LABOUR
24 / 7: Work between meaning and imbalance
1st May 2024 > 19th January 2025 @ Kunsthauz Graz, Austria
PERFORMANCE >>> 14 JUNE >>> https://www.museum-joanneum.at/en/kunsthaus-graz/our-programme/calendar/event/sam-meech-1
LIVE STREAM @ https://www.youtube.com/@videosmithery/live
https://www.museum-joanneum.at/en/kunsthaus-graz/our-programme/exhibitions/event/24-7-2
I will be performing a new version of my '8 Hours Labour' work in June as part of an exibition on labour in Graz. Curated by Katia Huemer and cuocurated byt Martin Grabner, 24 / 7: Work between meaning and imbalance brings together many artists looking at our relationship to work and time.
The exhibition examines the often precarious aspects of artistic and cultural work, posing questions about the blurring of boundaries between letting oneself be exploited and self-realisation.
My contribution will simply be my 'work' - 8 hours of knitting on a brother punchcard machine, as an attempt to move focus away from the art object and towards the act of artistic labour. I say 'simply', but in reality this decision has dramatically inscreased the amount of admin and planning involved, so once again I seem to have fashioned a rod for my own back. Why is there always so much work invovled just to get to the work? Still, I'm looking forward to it.
The (insane) list of exhibiting artists includes:
Maja Bajević, Julien Berthier, Louisa Clement, Manuel Correa & Marina Otero Verzier, Jeremy Deller, Antje Ehmann & Harun Farocki & Eva Stotz, Aldo Giannotti, Liam Gillick, Lisa Großkopf, Andreas Gursky, Michael Hieslmair & Michael Zinganel, Tehching Hsieh, Johanna Kandl, Peter Kogler, Luiza Margan, Pia Mayrwöger, Sam Meech, Michail Michailov, Elisa Giardina Papa, Nika Radić, Martha Rosler, Sebastian Schmieg & Silvio Lorusso, Christoph Schwarz, Selma Selman, Santiago Sierra, Lia Sudermann & Simon Nagy, KURS (Miloš Miletić, Mirjana Radovanović), Oliver Walker
SHOP >>>
Simply A Matter of Work - print - $1 CAD + p&p
