Prepared for Media Arts, University of Wollongong April 2008, by Louise Curham. Good for everyone! Video camera requirements Manual focus Manual iris Progressive scan tripod
Author Archives: Lucas
“Now To the Future” by Andrew Frost
Measuring Up / Looking Back / Chewing Over
Measuring Up: Illustrating this comment and this page of sketches and calculations, I’m posting these photos to show how we worked out the relative dimensions of the mirror/screen. Not very complicated! Lucas’ armspan (188cm) was assumed to be similar to Guy’s – thus, we reasoned, Lucas would use a “full-size” mirror of 24X32 inches (61X81.3cm). …
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(Wo)Man With Mirror notes, by Lucas
Louise and I have finally begun the practical work of re-enacting Guy Sherwin’s Man with Mirror (1976-2009). We’ve been looking and thinking about this work for several years now. In August 2008 we spent some time with Guy, when he came to Australia. We saw him performing the piece in Brisbane, and we had a …
Disappearing Video, Video Disappeared?
The above photo shows Louise Curham from the TLC making a cracking point at the plenary discussion session at the end of the Disappearing Video Conference. To her right are Lyndal Jones, Andrew Frost, Stephen Jones and Danni Zuvela. It was a really interesting day. Here’s my round-up of a few random thoughts: Stephen Jones …
Disappearing Video
[above image: Denis Beaubois “In the event of Amnesia the city will recall…” (still, detail) (Sydney) 1996-97 digital video, sound 9:12 minutes] It’s rare enough to see a serious exhibition of video art in an Aussie art museum. But accompanying the MCA’s Video Logic show, there is a super rare screening of historical Australian video …
Guy Sherwin and Lynn Loo in Brisbane
above: Guy Sherwin performs “Paper Landscape” in Brisbane during his recent screenings. The TLC’s Louise and Lucas, joined by Sydney film maven Mike Leggett, recently made the trip to Brisbane to see Guy Sherwin and Lynn Loo do their thing at the IMA. Guy and Lynn’s trip was courtesy of the Brisbane Film Festival and …
Steven Ball Screening in Sydney
Screening Details: Loose Space and Circular Time Steven Ball’s Mini-Retrospective 7:30pm, Friday 25th July 2008 SYDNEY 302 Cleveland St Surry Hills NSW —Entry by gold coin donation— UK film and video veteran Steven Ball will be in Sydney briefly next week. The Teaching and Learning Cinema is delighted to be presenting an retrospective of his …
Mark Titmarsh Interviewed on Super 8 Film in Sydney
Between Super and Deluxe Mark Titmarsh interviewed by Bob Percival, 1 August 2006 An in-depth interview with Mark Titmarsh, a key enthusiast for super 8 filmmaking in Sydney through the 1980s. Check it out here. Bob Percival recently wrote a thesis on the history of the Sydney Super 8 Group. Read bits of it here. …
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Chris Fleming on Long Film
[above: the light at 9pm on Friday during Long Film For Ambient Light] [The following is a short series of excerpts from an interview with Chris Fleming, recorded by Lucas, Friday 16th March 2007, 9pm. These quotes are cut from a longer conversation. You can also read a short note he wrote after the event, …