Fat Friday Benefit Projections
Sofy Yuditskaya and I projected at the Angel Orensans foundation. Sofy wanted to trace the architecture, so we mapped the altar facade in the space to great effect.
Music
BlackRat Presents.. a night of delirious music and light
Projections for a full night of bands at Tender Trap in Greenpoint, incluing Vic Thrill, Himalaychian Indo Celtic Freek Folk Music, Sewer Rats BK, Tekrok Gabberjazz Animetal, The Icebergs, DJ Small Change, Megmanmusic.
“ab uno pluribus” projections
Projection accompaniment with three musicians at this cozy event, including David Linton, Jeanann Dara, and Wolfgang von Struermer. NOW IN ITS SECOND YEAR! The October session of this monthly audio-visual event will present electro-acoustic live sound by Jeanann Dara [viola + effects], David Linton [analogue electronics], WvS [digital synthesis + iOS devices] and live visuals…
Plan 23
Projection accompaniment with dear friends Plan 23 at the Brooklyn Wildlife Festival.
New Years Eve – Court of the Snow Queen
This was for the Gemini & Scorpio New Years Eve party, where I provided the video backdrop for the evening.
Incidental Words
Jon Sands and Chris Jordan have brought together a group of artists, collaborating on creating an evening of animated mixed media poetry performance for Boston’s first Nuit Blanch, Illuminus. The project, titled, “Incidental Wordsâ€, is a roving performance of poetry by three of the East Coasts most relevant spoken word artists: Jon Sands, José Olivarez,…
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…
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…
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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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…
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
Time’s Up Halloween Party
Projected on bands at C-Squat with the Time’s Up activist group.
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.
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…
“You play it — then it plays you” at The Tank
I’ll be creating a visual instrument and playing it at The Tank with Use the Other Door, regular Share folks who make soundscapes. 7:30pm $7 http://www.thetanknyc.org about Use Other Door Use Other Door is Veranika Hryn and Dzmitry Zhykh an experimental-electricity duo from Belarus. “You can never step in the same river twice….. but at…
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Time Bandits AV night
An evening of extraordinary audio visual performances the secret order of the slippery spiral presents:“TIME BANDITS – another evening of extraordinaryaudio visual performances” – foci + loci (Chris Burke & Tamara Yadao)— 000000Swan (Black Swan)— Richard Garet—-Bicameral Research Sound & Projection System—–Fair Use Duo (Luke Dubois & Matthew Ostrowski)——Marcia Bassett & Samara Lubelski duet; with…
Alien Acres Summer Camp
Alien Acres Summer Camp, with 180 people attending this year. The photos and video below represent many many people’s creative work. I was focusing on outdoor projections, including fog and large screens. Jeanne, Sam, Zarah, Sima, Jeremy, and Lukas were also doing projections you see below. The big fire was Jen Upchurch’s FIGMENT temple from…
Chinatown rooftop show
a summer salon with performances by ATTN: LITTLE BLACK EGG ANTI:CLOCKWISE visual installation by Cj (I’ll be projecting recent documentation of Glacier National Park) 149 East Broadway #4F (F to East Broadway) 8:00 PM Rooftop, weather permitting Music begins promptly at 8 Event photos by Enki
DROID at New School
New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music Spring 2010 Jazz Presents series continues with New School Drum Sets! DROID, featuring Amir Ziv Thursday, April 8, 2010 8:00 p.m. 55 West 13th Street, floor 5 The Performance Space New School Jazz faculty member and alumnus Amir Ziv leads DROID in concert. The ensemble features Amir Ziv…
Bollywood Disco at SOBs
I’m sitting in for Paul Clay (FICTIVE) tonight for dj Rekha’s Bollywood Disco dance party at SOB’s. Let me know if you want to attend, I’ve got a few comps. Otherwise, its $10. Doors are 11pm, but things won’t really get going until after midnight. Retro film classic eclectic disco grooves DJ Rekha and Rajstar…
AMNH with Glowing Pictures
Back at the AMNH with Glowing Pictures. A geodesic mirror ball, and other moving mirror effects, were used through the night. [media id=10]
3d VU at Unsound
3d VU installation, part of the Unsound festival. Audio reactive video installation in the back room of Public Assembly in Williamsburg. Friday and Saturday evening. More info at:http://beyondbooking.com/http://unsound.pl/en
DROID
Another installment of this continually evolving collaboration with the amazing DROID crew. Doors 8pm SETS 9:30PM & 11PM; $15 email for RSVP I’ll be throwing down with my favorite fusion freaks at the DROID factory in the Lower East Side. Amir Ziv Jordan McLean Adam Holzman Shahzad Ismaily – bass
{R}ake at Monkeytown
{R}ake is a performance series of alternative and collaborative electro-acoustic music and video. Performances range from pure improvisation to more structured pieces, with video-artists and musicians working together in exploratory ways. Monkey Town is closing on January 24. Their curatorial mission and immersive 4-wall video setup made Monkey Town an important advocate of video in…
Engadget with Bubblyfish
Bubblyfish (Haeyoung) and I did a very short performance for the 10th anniversary and final show of 2009 of Engadget. More info
Overtone feat Thema with Big Bully, Lenny De La Posso at Sputnik
10pm – 4am at SPUTNIK (262 Taaffe Place Brooklyn) $10 / $5 with rsvp: overtonenyc@gmail.com Fine Diving and Subliminal Broadcast have joined forces to bring a new monthly party to our friends in Brooklyn. After scouting locations in the area we chose Sputnik which is an underused location that has a great sound system, a…
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The Last Masquerade (DANGER)
Lighting for the Gamelatron, rear silhouette camera/projection installation, and refracted mirror projections for the DANGER party’s Halloween party in Bushwick. Read more
Pitchfork benefit for Showpaper as part of CMJ hosted by ToddP (phew!)
Ok. That’s these meta days we live in. And yes, I’m sure my contribution to this will be lost in the noise. But, I’ll be bringing a bit of light to this benefit for the all ages newspaper Showpaper. Organized by ToddP and Pitchfork. As part of CMJ. Info below: THE PITCHFORK BENEFIT FOR SHOWPAPER…
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DROID loft performance, LES
Doors: 8:30pm Sets: 9:30pm & 11pm $15 Live projections with a group of musicians in the Lower East Side. I’ve been collaborating and evolving my work with this group for three years now; so expect a very sophisticated, synchronized set, mixed with a handful of protocinema elements. Jordan McLean – trumpt & electronics Adam Holzman…
OSB with Glowing Pictures
The museum party season is upon us once again, back at the Rose Center for One Step Beyond with Glowing Pictures (Benton-C Bainbridge and Owen Bush). Music by Amanda Blank, Devlin and Darko. “The One Step Beyond party is back at the American Museum of Natural History, and we’re more than psyched about it. Presented…
New Island Festival with FIGMENT
Governor’s Island is going out with a bang this season, staying open until 11pm Thursday through Sunday; with FIGMENT contributing a full line up of artists, installations, and dj’s on Saturday from 11AM – 11PM. [media id=1] I’ve thrown myself into the fray with numerous installations, including a 3d stage (thanks Noise), with 3d glasses…
Fab Faux plays REVOLVER
Projections for The Fab Faux, at The Beacon. These guys recreate The Beatles sound with amazing detail and accuracy. I’ll be creating a visual accompaniment that draws from the visual history of the band, while bringing it to the modern day. Timelapse of the entire day (40 megs)