Admittedly, I don’t know much about the ISE Cultural Foundation, nor even about their current exhibit: OUROBORUS: The History of the Universe which is having their opening party tonight from 6-8 PM. What I do know is that the exhibit created by video artist Ali Hossaini in collaboration with Sweatshoppe – aka multimedia artists Blake Shaw and Bruno Levy – a couple of geniuses who will, I guarantee, blow you away with what they are doing with video and sound. According to the ISE’s site, the exhibition “tells the history of cosmic evolution by animating more than 30,000 found images in custom software that generates a holographic 3D environment. Compiling and processing the images requires hundreds of hours of effort and attention to detail on every frame of video.”
I had the pleasure of getting a live demo of their video art in Sweatshoppe’s Chelsea studio about a month ago, and I can promise you that whatever they do tonight will blow your mind – and at my age, that’s not something I get to say very often anymore. Incidentally, Sweatshoppe will be also be performing in the RE/Mixed Media Festival on May 30th at Galapagos, so if you miss them tonight, you should definitely do so then.
In the meantime, here’s a vid to whet your appetite – a demo of “video wheat paste” – just one of the cool things they do:
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