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Group screenings of projects from the Nonlinear Storytelling graduate seminar, Hunter College at Monkeytown, a four screen, four channel venue in Brooklyn, NY, 2008 and 2009.

For two years my Nonlinear Storytelling graduate seminar in the Hunter College Integrated Media Arts MFA program publicly presented their final projects at Monkeytown in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Monkeytown had four large screens surrounding the audience that could display four channels, or any combination of 1-4. Many students designed pieces specifically for this four-channel space.

Vis-à-vis

A collaboration between members of my Brown University MC170.6 Soft Cinema course, designed and produced for Blur 03 Project and Prototypes Open Swap on April 26, 2003, hosted by the New School in collaboration with Creative Time and Parsons School of Design. Vis-à-vis was also presented at the Free Cooperation conference, Department of Media Study, Buffalo, NY.

In vis-à-vis, a tightly-framed face is captured on video, then “abbreviated” and spliced together, in correct anatomical relation, with five other abridged faces. Initially sectioned according to the proportions of the Golden Mean, this hybridized visage undergoes constant mutation as some components increase in size and others are edged out. Using Jitter (an extension of Max MSP), the montage of looped video clips is constructed in real time. During one complete cycle, lasting less than two minutes, the smallest section evolves into the largest. When a new cycle begins, fresh faces recalled from the database replace the older ones. Over time, every face from the database will appear.

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Behind Vis-à-vis:
Mat Greenleaf, Matt Groff, Michelle Higa, Arthur Hur, Yew Leong Lee, Thomas Owen (Jitter), Daniela Rosner (RISD), Christopher Smith, Rachel Stevens (Prof), Joseph Winter (TA), Sayaka Yabuki