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Video Documentation

Posted by Marla Bendini on Sunday, April 21, 2013, In : DM2009 Performance and Interaction

Please view video documentation here.
Thank you.

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Artistic References and Developments

Posted by Marla Bendini on Saturday, April 20, 2013, In : DM2009 Performance and Interaction

Development of the performance is a continuation from a performance "Intimate Detachments", a collaborated interactive multimedia Butoh performance conceived for a experimental sound performance module last year. In this performance, the butoh performance manipulates the video/sound art playback.

http://www.marlabendini.yolasite.com/intimate-detachments.php

Size 10 fists

2012
digital image, edition of 2
1.2m x 6m

In this image, I was drying out my mouth with a high-powered electrical air pump. ...

Testing & Process

Posted by Marla Bendini on Saturday, April 20, 2013, In : DM2009 Performance and Interaction

Channel that detects black moving pixels:

Layered the moving particle channel over the live feed:

It was a nice visual but I felt it could be better.
Perhaps it gave a lightness to the image, but I thought the layers were a little detached.

It finally dawned on me the day before the presentation, that I could simply invert the black-and-white alpha channel and allow the moving particles to be black like my hair instead! The answer was so obvious I was focusing so much on coding I fail to see ...
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Electricity made us angels: Write-up

Posted by Marla Bendini on Saturday, April 20, 2013, In : DM2009 Performance and Interaction

Electricity made us angels is an exploration into new media performance with the intention to incorporate technology into my existing performance practice in terms of design, process and consumption which cannot be realised otherwise; a virtual performance that potentially deviates from its live input.

In an age of Facebook, iPhone self-portraits and Instagram, I manipulate self-portraiture/performance to explore multiple identities and fluidity in perspective, to bridge the present to what...