Nice!kaeth wrote: Here's a pic from my first show at an art gallery with a simple one-projector, two-plate setup.
Another thing you can do with overhead projectors is get some moiré patterns printed on transparencies, layer two identical or similar ones, and manually manipulate them.
Works great coupled with the liquids. I like video and laser light shows too, but I love keeping the analog visuals alive!
Yeah. Space can be a concern. If a venue has a sound board that is located central-back area,
they don't tend to want you suspending sloshy staining liquids over their sound console.
Which is why old town-halls with an existing video projector suspended from the ceiling can be
awesome. But... although such town halls exist in my slice of rural Ontario, such things aren't
wide spread everywhere.
The moiré effect from screen/pattern overlay is a great way to make moving weirdness.
It would also be cool if this Critter& Guitari stuff had a "green-screen" capability. Like... if
the device output a color area that could be filled by whatever video signal you fed into it.
So you could have space shapes made by the audio coming into the device, and then inside
the green shapes (for instance) you could have whatever video you fed into the machine,
but just in that green shape areas. This kind of stuff was easily enough done with the Video Toaster
devices that gave the aesthetic of all cable access shows from the '80s into the '90s. But... I don't
think those devices are easy to come by anymore.
