CTRL ALT SHIFT – from V.I. Artists on Vimeo.
Michael Faulkner of D-FUSE says the most interesting thing in this video: it’s when technology becomes redundant that it’s accepted as art. Photography gets invented, and suddenly painting – a business and a craft for centuries – is “high art.” (Don’t ask, incidentally, about what late 19th Century art critics and salon organizers thought was great painting. It was utterly dreadful.)
Ctrl Alt Shift is a 10-minute documentary, pointed out by Resolume developer Bart on their forums, featuring live visualists and audiovisualists. It has a number of things going for it: a terrific artist lineup, asking the tough, obvious questions about why fundamentally we do this stuff, and an editing style that makes projection, live-style edits, and eye candy animation part of the documentary object. It’s a tasty treat to watch if you know the artists, and even if the chatter in this video is the sort of thing you discuss over beers and V4s with your mates, it could be an ideal video to pass along to your friends who don’t yet entirely get what this whole thing is about.
Featured artists:
The Light Surgeons, D-Fuse, Hexstatic, Vj Anyone, Addictive TV, Vector Meldrew, and Fatamorgana
It’s a production by Dean G Moore and Simon Lane.
I know of at least one other documentary project on live visuals evolving. Of course, maybe what we need – given the imperfect and evolving nature of the medium – is more along the lines of a 24-hour visual network. I nominate … all of us.