Behind the name “Kopffarben” are the artists Julia Schaefer and Johannes Schmidt. Both artists work together to be able to merge their knowledge in the fields of painting, sculpture, theater, photography and graphics (Julia Schaefer), and computer animation, programming and film (Johannes Schmidt).

Dima was so busy managing the equipment that he didn’t take many photos on the two evenings that we went projector bombing with the Red Bull car during the Lunchmeat Festival – but he was able to shoot some video on the first night when it wasn’t raining. It’s all a bit shaky and hand held but I think it captures really well the atmosphere of working with the Tagtool outside. The first clip is from the roof terrace session at DOX.

The two clips below were shot outside the cinema BIO OKO and the club/gallery Roxy/NOD in the centre of Prague. While I was drawing we had a DJ operating the sound system in the Red Bull car, but Dima has used these two tracks by Mihaly Vig, ‘Valuska’ and ‘Oskigyo’ for the videos.

The festival organisers are making an official video of the whole event, which should also include some footage of our Saturday night performance at the Meetfactory. When this comes out I will post a link on the blog.

I spent this past weekend at Ateliér Libušín, located in the small village of Libušín, Czech for this years edition of the TagTool sessions.
Ateliér Libušín is also the home of Francis and Dima, whom I first became aware of from the Wall Of Light video.

On hand for the sessions was the entire OMA international family along with a hand full of musicians. There was lots of cooking and chatting and drinking, and more importantly TagTool.

For the first night Francis suggested we set up in the back yard because it was so nice out and the following evening there was a prediction of rain. On hand were three large plastic panels that were propped up, projectors turned on and off we went with two TagTool stations, one of them plugged in via a Dima invention using VVVV keyed into the other for some dual TagTooling.

Photo: Maki

Improvised musical accompaniment by Seppi and iink.

Photo: Maki

The following evening we all went into the studio and a secret project involving an iPad was introduced into the mix. In the images above and below, left side is TagTool and right side is the ______ running on the iPad.

Photo: Maki

Not shown here at all are the experiments where the ______ on the iPad sent its drawings to the MadMapper using Syphon.

When the geekery concluded we settled into a multi-tagtool session…

Photo: gnu

Photo: gnu

Colors coming out of the nose of the mind.

PLEASE NOTE: The event was supported by funds of a cultural promotion called “Wir sind Nachbarn” (we are neighbors) by “NÖ Landesakademie” (an institute of Lower Austria).

Here are photos of the performance on the roof terrace at DOX Gallery.

As it was a real jam session I decided to make a sequence of both abstract and figurative images for this setting. Here are photos of the two musicians who provided the live accompaniment for my drawing.

It was the sound system in the Red Bull car that was used for music to accompany the street projections.

Below are some more photos from the street session outside BIO OKO.

In order to cover the whole height of the building Kuba held the projector on its side – a great idea that worked really well – but drawing was much more difficult, as either I had to stand sideways or try remember that when I moved the pen up on the tablet, the line went down on the building and movement left showed up as movement right!

Unfortunately, on Thursday evening it was seriously wet – not the best weather for projector bombing!

I was the lucky one, cowering inside the van (although this proved to be not the most comfortable position for drawing!)

But despite the bad weather this was a great projection location.

As well as ‘drawing’ on the wall I was able to incorporate the statue in the niche into the pictures.

When we moved to the next location we parked the van next to the Red Bull car in the car park end-on to the wall. With the back door of the van raised to form a ‘roof’, a raincoat draped over the back of the Tagtool to give extra protection from the rain and the projector inside the van sitting on the tailgate, this was a much more comfortable drawing position for me.

The audience was not so lucky!

My projection area fell within one of the ‘loops’ of the permanent mural that covers this big wall and as there was a lot of ambient light at this location I chose not to use the transparency slider but instead concentrate on making big bold images in pure colours.

I ended the session with a bit of advertising for the remaining events of the festival!

It had been great fun, although we all went home very wet – and glad that our performance on Saturday at the Meetfactory would be indoors!

As you can see from the gallery there is quite a bit of Piggy action involved when it comes to Tinet. The Hypno Toad with its underwater friends came about towards the end of the night and is rather telling of what happens to the mind after drawing for about 6 hours straight.

A big thanks to the co-organizers Henri Gylander for his interest in including our talents to grace their party.

You can read a more personal and in depth report about this adventure on Tinet’s blog post.

The brave new world is characterized by a borderless reality. The world has grown due to changing means of communication to a global village. In Vienna the global intersection of Electro and Hip Hop music found a new rising star – Dorian Concept – accompanied by Yukon, Fnord & Marv´s Tagtool performance.

Here are some pictures of the club gig in Graz @ Niesenberger by Disko404.

Following the first incarnation of the Gr8 Bits show, Skot (Scott) Deeming aka mrghosty was invited by the Winnipeg Art Gallery to program a follow up as part of the gallery’s inaugural Nuit Blanche celebrations. The evening saw over 4000 attendees visit the gallery over the course of the evening.

It featured several of the artists and their works from the first Gr8 Bits show, while some brought new works as well:

Tagtool (interactive 8 bit drawing installation) by Rylaan Gimby.
DDRVJC (dance dance revolution VJ controller) installation by mrghosty
Lost in Thought (anti-game installation) by Murray Toews.
NES feedback video mixing by Andrew Milne.
VJ DRUMS (video drum kit installation) by mrghosty.
* plus 8 bit music sets by Cut Stickens and DJ 10fwd (decade forward).

Here is a short video about the event.