The piece, which had its premiere at the Paula Cooper Gallery in Manhattan late last year, is a four-screen audiovisual composition of spliced-together music-related scenes from Hollywood movies.
As always, MUTEK will also feature many multimedia and interdisciplinary performances, including a four-screen audiovisual show by French-Japanese duo Nonotak, and a sound and light performance using custom instruments by Warp Records artist Jackson.
At a recent Museum of Modern Art PopRally event this past Monday, Cunningham screened an audiovisual remix of Gil Scott-Heron's New York Is Killing Me.
The recessed screen for the audiovisual system is hidden above the fireplace.
Part of the exhibition will include a new work called unfold, a screen-based immersive audiovisual piece that transports viewers into space, offering glimpses of cosmic happenings like the birth of stars and solar systems, based on scientific data.
At the Aston, the entire second floor has been devoted to amenities, which include a health club, an outdoor patio deck and boccie courts, as well as a lounge with a pool table, a large-screen television and an audiovisual system.
The time needed to set up the apparatus is usually less than 5 minutes including the audiovisual on-screen instructions, and our version of the verbal fluency task takes less than 3 minutes, which is less demanding for the participants.
Most audiovisual work involves screens of some description and often those screens are at the back of a stage with a bank of audio equipment and wires set up in front of them.
The project merges two previous projects developed at the HACK Lab: an ARHemlet equipped with a camera, headphones and screen and Wired, an interactive audiovisual processing software.
An audiovisual work, the screens in the piece contain a number of animated symbols (including corporate logos) and shapes rotating in abstract ways.
Then the whole thing will culminate in a live finale at Village Underground on December 2nd where you could find yourself projected onto a giant screen as part of a live audiovisual set by Jamie XX.
