Latin Movie Palaces
Projections on the old movie houses in the Bronx, with Casita Maria organizing the event. Live music of the era, along with Tito Fuentes movies, and other Latin stars, projected on the original movie houses.
Author: christopher
The Best of Words on Walls
This was our final Words on Walls event, which I was a part of for over two years. The program involved leading workshops with youth poets, projection mapping their words to site-specific walls through the city; then performing the poetry in time with the projections. This was our “best of” celebration, wrapping up this amazingly…
The Light from Below
THE LIGHT FROM BELOW is a site-specific interactive light and sound environment in the cavernous Fort Jay munition magazines addresses our collective culpability in fueling the military industrial complex. The works present phases of a cannon’s ‘life-cycle’ – sale, manufacturing, deployment, firing, and consequence. Visitors interacting with elements are exposed to the corporeality of war…
Tower Epoch at STEAM
The installation, Tower Epoch, part of the STEAM (Stem+Arts=Steam) exhibit at ArtsWestchester, is on view from May 20 – August 16, 2014. Artist Reception: May 10, 2-4pm. This exhibition explores the intersections of science, technology, engineering, math and creativity. Inspired by the STEM to STEAM dialogue in education, this exhibition presents artists using the interdisciplinary…
Tower Epoch
I have a light sculpture in this group show at Central Booking on Ludlow, opening Feb. 6 2014. The piece, titled, “Tower Epoch”, is composed of timelapse footage projected, reflected, off mirrors. The footage was captured in 2013 from the Queens Plaza Clock Tower. I’ll also be on a panel discussion Art & Science Panel:…
837 Washington Timelapse
Solar timelapse installation Sean McIntyre and I built, which recorded the construction of 837 Washington in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District. Images were transmitted over 4G to a server. The client was Taconic Investment, and ran flawlessly for two years off of the sun. Setup
Momentum
This is a new site specific installation that captures the movement of a swing and creates an immersive visual experience. Momentum amplifies the sense of weightlessness experienced at the apex of change. This was part of the Monitor Digital festival in Guadalajara, Mexico. This whole project is a collaboration between many people, without who’s support…
Glory Road
Showing September 18 – 21, 2013 12 – 1:30pm & 4 – 6pm (20-minute performances) Grace Plaza 1114 Avenue of the Americas (at 43rd Street) An Arts Brookfield Commission The Nerve Tank, a world-class theater innovator, brings the woeful myth of Sisyphus to the Grace Building Plaza. Sisyphus, a daring and clever king who outwitted…
Crystalline Time
I art-directed and project managed this projection mapping installation overlooking the High Line titled, “Crystalline Time”. This was an outdoor projection installation on the Taconic building at 837 Washington, designed as a compelling visual treatment to the construction scaffolding. The design goal was to raise interest and buzz about the building for a future client base.…
Silo Swing
Revitalizing a disused pair of silos in Flint Michigan, Silo Swing encourages visitors to take a ride on the seven-story kinetic light installation. The installation incorporates reflective wind-catching materials that create a light display on the two large silos both during the daytime and at night. This interplay of scale and weight, through light and…
The Museum of the Transition from the Unreal to the Real
Written, conceived, and directed by Liron Dan, Kelvin Daly, and the Ensemble Movement: Fibi Jane, Jacqueline Ha, Craig Whitehouse, Madi McKay, Emily Rubin, Noa Lembersky, Liron Dan Music: Zemi 17, Dok Gregory, Shamos Dan, Kelvin Daly Real time Light Sculpture by Chris Jordan At THE HIVE, 20 Cook St., Brooklyn, (thehivenyc.com) near the JMZ at…
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Blue Mailbox Book Tour
Annie sits atop street corner mailboxes and performed stories that happened on those corners, while projecting her her words on nearby buildings where those memories took place. passeggiata letteraria (lit walk) of L is for Lion Thurs May 9 6pm Act One: Dinner and Performance in Jimmy’s 43, 43 E 7th Street. 7:30pm Act Two:…
Reflections on Impact
Devotion Gallery 54 MAUJER ST BROOKLYN NY 11206 | 1-718-576-1107 February 1st – February 11, 2013 Reflections on Impact from Chris Jay on Vimeo. Mixed-media installation using reflections and projections that evokes a meditation on the impact of humanity on the environment. Visitors are encouraged to toss a penny into the pond, causing ripples through…
Locost Queue
The installation projects silhouettes of people photographed in Queens, in a queue, moving across the four faces of the clock tower. The rate of movement correlates to the population growth for the city of New York. A light flashes in the tower at the approximate rate of species extinction on the planet. Ie: its estimated…
Blackout Projections on Halloween
Enki, Sean and me playing with projections during Halloween 2012 blackout in NYC. Photos as we moved through the dark post-hurricane streets of lower manhattan with two 2k lumen projectors and a generator. This was during OWS, right before the 2012 election, thus the Big Bird to support Public Broadcast.
10% Nation at Dixon Place
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 10 PM DIXON PLACE, LES I’m doing the video design for this play on celebrity culture, with the theater company Nerve Tank “I think all the time now that I’m Cinderella, and the clock’s about to strike midnight, and the coach turns back into a pumpkin.†10% Nation is a show about…
Eldridge Synagog with POEMobile and Bring to Light
I only had a small roll in this, but was such a fun event, wanted to share some images. We projected Hebrew and English poetry while it was being recited on the Eldrige St. Synagog. There was also klezmer music, and dancing in the streets. Wonderful community event. POEMobile Eldridge Street Synagog Bring to Light…
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BucketCraft
BucketCraft is an installation on Governors Island, part of the FIGMENT Season Long Sculpture Park. The installation is located at the south end of the Parade Ground. A camera affixed atop a 14′ pole records the movement and construction of buckets and people within its frame. Through the course of the summer, the buckets will…
AVWAVE part 2
Two evenings of audio video performances at The Firehouse Space, curated by Chris Jordan AVWave The Firehouse Space May 18th, 8pm $10 246 Frost Street Brooklyn, NY 11211 http://www.thefirehousespace.org This is the second night of the two part series I’m organizing, bringing amazing artists in diverse media together. Justin Riley Sima VisualhornHonking + The War…
AVWAVE part 1
Two evenings of audio video performances at The Firehouse Space, curated by Chris Jordan AVWave (part 1) The Firehouse Space May 11th, 8pm $10 246 Frost Street Brooklyn, NY 11211 Link + Merche Blasco Josh Ott + Ezekiel Honig Dok Gregory, Masha Gitin, Jeremy Slater
Unsound Festival
Unsound Festival New York at Warsaw, hosted by The Bunker/Beyond Booking Photo © Seze Devres View more photos from the event shot by Seze I did live visuals for four hours, with the musicians Zemi17, Ital, Laurel Halo, and Hieroglyphic Being. Monolake Live – The Ghosts in Surround (imbalance computer music | Berlin), video by…
New Museum 35th Anniversary
I worked with the Bring to Light crew for the projection mapping at this prestigious gala, celebrating 35 years of the New Museum. The clerestory was mapped with projections of recent Mew Museum featured artists work.
Slanted Walk
Slanted Walk Chris Jordan, 2012 The Front Room 147 roebling street williamsburg, brooklyn Front Room Gallery [media id=33] This interactive projection installation examines public space through the use of light and movement. The installation combines live camera of passerbys to create an inverted shadow. By highlighting the individual in the urban landscape, Slanted Walk attempts…
Rafmögnuð Náttúra
Reykjavik Winter Lights Festival 2012 Hallgrimskirkja Church, Reykjavik, Iceland Feb. 9-12, 2012 Four day timelapse, shot from Cafe Loki[media id=32] Festival sponsor documentation of the installation Celebrating the darkest of days in Reykjavik with the Winter Lights Festival 2012, Chris Jordan brings Iceland’s most recognizable building, Hallgrimskirkja church, to life with light and movement as…
Bradford Reed, Front Room
Bradford Reed and Chris Jordan the Front Room gallery in Williamsburg FRIDAY THE 13th: SOUND/VIDEO/LIGHT/MOVEMENT PERFORMANCES, 7-10pm FREE 7pm: Tom Swirly 8pm: Bradford Reed and Chris Jordan 9pm: Rubaiyats Of The Cicadas (ROTC) with Shige Moriya and Ximena Garnica of LEIMAY Front Room Gallery 147 Roebling Street Brooklyn frontroom.org
OWS Projections
A group of us projected at the Occupy Wall Street 2-month anniversary, using stationary and mobile projections. Video from Democracy Now WNYC article Gothamist article on the “Bat signal” OWS projections
Time’s Up Halloween Party
Projected on bands at C-Squat with the Time’s Up activist group.
Chrono Giants
Josh Goldberg and I created this interactive projection installation, Chrono Giants installation at the 2nd annual Bring to Light festival in NYC. October 2nd, near the waterfront in Greenpoint.
BTL: Bob and Irene
Columbia architecture student Jocelyn Oppenheim worked on the creation of an inflatable called, “BOB“. I’ll be projecting footage of hurricane Irene inside this for the BringtoLightnyc.org event.
Bring to Light 2011
I was a Technical Advisor for this illumination festival in Greenpoint. I also taught a workshop with youth poets on projection mapping, Urban Word and City Lore sponsored the poetry workshop.
We are the Soul of the Temple
A private dance party 9pm – til late MUSIC Dok Gregory as the DJ Stellar Chic Solo, Soul Lounging Dhundee (Sugarcuts), Soulful House D_Juice (Resident DJ Winkle and Balktick), House for the Soul Zemi17 (Resident DJ TheDanger), SpaceHaus from the Soul VIDEO Installation by CJ Projections off convex mirror in a white room, spatially corrected…
Full Moon at Fireproof
Collaborating with three artists at Brooklyn Fireproof.
GO FIGMENT timelapse
Timelapse of the Summer Long sculpture park, where I had an installation up.
Let Us Make Cake
I was one of 40 artists in this group video looped on the New Museum during the Festival of Ideas.Timelapse of one loop of the compiled movie (includes poetry piece from Bowery Poetry Club)
Chrono Beam
[media id=27] Chrono-Beam is a time-based installation, engaging the realms of memory and space to remap participants’ images onto a public wall in the form of a queue. Participants are recorded and added to the queue of projected people, forming a video-line of people that moves over time. Chrono-Beam converts the sidewalk from a mere…
RedBlueGreen at WestFest dance festival
I’m thrilled to be working with Flexicurve dance company, creating a projection component for six dancers utilizing camera, computer, and a very large piece of black scrim, as part of the WestFest Dance Festival. “RedBlueGreen” involves recording and delaying movement over time, projected to appear, “floating” on the dancers, set to the track, “Videotape” by…
One Step Beyond with Glowing Pictures
Back to the Rose Center with the Glowing Pictures crew.
NYU with Lars Graugaard
8:00 pm at Frederick Lowe Theater, 35 W. 4th St. Playing the players. I’ll be triggering musicians with beams of light. The musicians won’t be actually playing, but their motions and fretting with their instruments recorded and used as variables for the audio which Lars will be composing live. projector tomusicians tocamera and mics tocomputer…
OptoSonic Tea with Bradford Reed
Live sets by: – Alex Carpenter (live visuals and sound) with James Ross (live sound)– Chris Jordan (live visuals) with Bradford Reed (live sound) Invited respondent/moderator: – Andrea Monti Suggested donation:$ 7 Diapason882 Third Avenue, between 32nd and 33rd Streets, 10th floorBROOKLYN (Sunset Park)(718) 499-5070directions: D, N or R train to 36th Street in Brooklyn…
Time’s Up Valentine’s Dance Party
Happy 2011! For this benefit, I used 4 mirrors, one projector; Peter Shapiro fed video to one quadrant, which was then delayed by a few frames in a cascade to the other three mirror-quadrants. [media id=23] Peter Shapiro shot some video of the evening Video of burlesque black light projections Link to ride and after…