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:…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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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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…
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 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…
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 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…
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 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
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
Projected on bands at C-Squat with the Time’s Up activist group.
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.
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.
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.
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…
Collaborating with three artists at Brooklyn Fireproof.
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)
[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…
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…
Back to the Rose Center with the Glowing Pictures crew.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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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…
“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…
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, 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…
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” (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…
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…
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
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…
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 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…
