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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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A-Spline at Bring to Light

Projection mapping on the last warehouse standing from the 2006 10 alarm fire in Greenpoint. The installation, titled A-Spline, uses 24,000 lumens to bring the shell of a building to life with light and color. Part of the Bring to Light event, the first “Nuit Blanch” in NYC. 7pm – 12am, Greenpoint, Brooklyn Special thanks…

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“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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The Temple of Infinite Light

Temple of Infinite Light (TOIL) TOIL is an installation using very simple materials that create a dynamic environment of light beams. TOIL was created for The Forbidden City – Stranded III, in Brooklyn, organized by Winkel and Balktick. Special thanks to Eric Drasin, Yukiko, Sean McIntyre, and Reid Bingham for toiling on TOIL. Couldn’t have…

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Cue-10

“Cue-10” is part of the one year anniversary party/benefit for DEVOTION gallery and 319 Scholes performance and gallery space: two wonderful galleries in Brooklyn NY. “Cue-10” uses found-objects and digital projection to create a sculpture that blurs the line of projection and object through geometry. The installation uses ceramic reflective micro beads that reinforce the…

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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…

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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…

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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

Qu Yuan Goes West

“Qu Yuan Goes West” (Chris Jordan, 2010) is an interactive light installation, allowing multiple participants to control light and movement using the iPhone’s interface. The installation utilizes computer, projector, mirrors, and motors. “Qu Yuan Goes West” examines the US/Chinese relationship; and how individual identity and capital (yuan) are transferred between nations. The title refers to…

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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…

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Basement Bhangra 13th Bday

SOB’s. Sitting in for Paul Clay. DJ Rekha and Eddie Stats Doors at 7:00pm. Free mojitos from 7-8. $13 with flyer from website, $16 without FREE Dance Lesson at 9pm (NOT TO BE MISSED!) SOBs, 204 Varick Street, Subway: 1 to Houston St. Info: (212) 252-2392

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…

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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]

Synapsis

Synapsis is part of a small group show at the LEO KUELBS Collection gallery opening Friday. The show is titled POP: Crackle & Snap. SynapsisChris Jordan, 2010Projector, mirror, metal, concrete. Synapsis connects the physicality of neurons and the pharmaceutical drug industry through an interactive immersive light installation. POP: Crackle & Snap Video and Light Installations…

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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…

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