Project:Clut
Client: Self, Collboration with Joe Gilmore.
Date: 2007

'Clut' documents a series of experiments using an analogue and digital feedback system. The system consists of a digital 3d model displayed on a monitor which is in turn being captured by a video camera whose input is then textured back onto the surface of the 3d model.

The camera input causes surface deformations in the 3d model according to luminance. These in turn feed subsequent iterations in the feedback loop. As the electronic loop moves with near lightspeed the input begins to change faster than the system can respond to it. The negative feedback signal begins to act as positive feedback causing the output to oscillate. The resulting image is dependent on a combination of variables such as camera and monitor settings, light amplification, scan rate, distance, angle, physical vibration and digital to analogue conversion. The soundtrack was generated in realtime by converting the video image into synthesised sound.

Clut is included in the Aurora DVD, 'Edition One' along with films by Thorsten Fleisch, Ben Rivers, Volker Schreiner and others.

http://www.aurora.org.uk/editionone

Screenings:

•Quadruplex, Hull Boathouse, Hull, UK, Saturday 28 June 2008. http://www.quadruplex.co.uk/screening1.htm

• Aurora Tour: 'Unfamiliar Countries, Impossible Structures', Animator Festival, Poznan, Wednesday 9 July 2008. http://www.aurora.org.uk/?lid=1817

• Aurora Tour: 'Unfamiliar Countries, Impossible Structures', The Lighthouse, Brighton, Tuesday 3 June 2008. http://www.aurora.org.uk/?lid=1817

• Sonicrecycler4, Watermans Art Centre, Brentford, London, Saturday May 10 2008.

• Futureproof Arts Festival, Nottingham, Saturday 3 May 2008. Curated by Emily Wilczek.

• Aurora Tour: 'Unfamiliar Countries, Impossible Structures', Black Box, Belfast (Belfast Film Festival), Sunday 13 April 2008.
http://www.aurora.org.uk/?lid=1817

• Aurora Tour: 'Unfamiliar Countries, Impossible Structures', Film Festival
Centre, Rodina Cinema, St.Petersburg. 25 January, 1 February 2008. http://www.aurora.org.uk/?lid=1817

• POV, Kluubb, Hong Kong SAR. 4 January 2008.

• Auror a, Norwich, UK. 7 November, 2007.

• 19th Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Chicago, USA. 14 June, 2007.

• Evolution, Leeds, UK (World Premiere). 26 May, 2007.