Home
About the 3minutes.net Project
News and Mailing List
Forum and eGroup
Guidelines for Content
Frequently Asked Questions
Buy DVDs, books and Merchandise
Press Kits and Publicity
About the 3minutes.net Team
Links We Like
Sitemap

Baba Avtomat & the Cylons

Title of work : Baba Avtomat & the Cylons (2005)

Video can be downloaded at: www.archive.org/details/BabaAvtomatandtheCylons

  • Director: Kat Black & Jasper Cook - VJzoo.com
  • Sound / Music: Paul Elwin - Cordata
  • Improvisational Dance: Ellen McCarthy - flutterby.net.au
  • 3D Modelling: Dmitry Sergeev
  • Running Time: 3 minutes
  • Format: DVD or downloadable in a variety of digital formats.
  • Produced / commissioned by: 3minutes.net - Kat Black & Jasper Cook

Brief Description of the piece: We have used abstracted footage of a live dancer incorporating the character of Baba Avtomat, a human mind trapped in a Sex Robot body in a post-apocalyptic future. Her arms are interchangeable, but she is a little unwieldy, as though just getting used to the shell in which she has become trapped.

We have used VJ techniques and software to produce this piece as a live mix. In other words, instead of using video editing software and planning the work in a linear way, we collect all of the content, experiment a little and then jam visually to the audio track while recording the results. This method of working is closer to performance art than film-making, if you are looking to fit us into a genre.

One of the themes which we are most keen to explore in the Collective is the interaction of real humans with created characters in 4D space/time. What relationships will develop? Can an animated character lead such a relationship, or must it always follow? These are issues that we want to explore experientially, by actually DOING in live workshops with large-scale video projection.

Screened at at several Arts Festivals throughout Australia in 2005:

  • Friday 30 September - International Ear Candy Screening at Electrofringe Festival, Newcastle, NSW
  • Tuesday 16 August - Finalist in the The Harries National Digital Art Awards, Brisbane
  • Wednesday 20 July - Teknikunst Contemporary Technology and Digital Arts Festival - "Impakt" screening in Melbourne.

More information regarding these hybrid perfromances can be seen at VJzoo.com/thhybrid.htm
all content copyright individual artists or 3minutes.net collective 2004-2005