Urpasuco up and running

Urban Particle Super Collider
with image / object contributions by:
Parnian Ferdossi (Tehran), David Yaghoobi (Tehran), Reza Mohseni (Tehran), Kamyar Adl (Tehran), Arash Mozaffari (Tehran) , Cyrus Farivar (US), Jooyoung Lee (Seoul), June1777 (Seoul), JuHyung Cho (Seoul), Minxx (New York), Martin Queticotic (New York) and the tehranseoulnewyork Flickr project
"INTERFERENCE" at EYEBEAM, New York
10 year Retrospective Series Sept 27 - Nov 10 2007

Rehearsal

Benton Bainbridge and Angie Eng and myself in rehearsal. A gig at Eyebeam opening. After knowing each other for so many years (but hardly interact) it felt like a class re-union! I pulled out my dusty Panasonic WJ 5, we all worked analog because we used a cool Benton-style video delay: A simple DVD burner, which delays yje video by a few frames (I guess because if the enormous real-time effort of encoding)..and that's what we needed to also delay the inevitable feedback because all our mixers were daisy chained. What was on the screen? A fusion of Kenya, Ulsan/Seoul and ..the Bronx. Matt Ostrovsky joined for sound..

the final final final render

Yes, of course: Everything had to be re-rendered. And that took 72 hours straight. Thank good we have several of these silver books. I needed three, because my Urban Particle Supercollider (urpasuco) has THREE channels, not one!

pARTy at Space Nabi

There will always be these nervous laptop guys. In the Western scenes already an endangered species, but not in Seoul. Space Nabi did a three day media art party with amplified skateboards, lots of Electronica, oddball interactivos and bad ResFest videos.
Hae Young and Spooky from NY were there, it was great to have them around,just to reassure myself that I'm not dreaming.
Nonetheless there was quiet some energy, reminding me of the end of Nineties jungle electronica explosion only in an entirly different culture and partially blended with present day technology and culture. Paul felt similar and said Seoul has the most interesting scene out there right now - and this man talks definitively global!

one more office visit

explaining Torsten and Yun Jang Ar (from SeMa) the office...

T'eheran Ro and Se'oul Street

My Urban Particle Collider Project, that connects Tehran, Seoul and New York involves a lot of different photographers. It started as a Flickr group project. While searching for Tehran street images on Flicker I accidentally landed back in Seoul an Tehran-ro. An American Flicker member, Cyrus Farvilar had posted THIS image of the road on his page.
Without knowing about it, one of the involved Tehran photographers, Parnian Ferdossi, send me THIS image. Good to be back in New York in time to add a third one. I could not imagine a better graphical element that connectsfor this three cities. Thank you Cyrus, thank you Parnian!