Camp Bestival Animation & Fireworks Finale
Chroma Collective had an excellent time on our largest projection project to date at Camp Bestival this July. We were commissioned to create a Medieval themed, animation projection onto Lulworth castle for the finale show on the Sunday. I directed the animation and collaborated with Two Tigers Fireworks, who worked magic by syncing the fireworks to … Read more
NO PLACE
NO PLACE is a hybrid performance using immersive animation to be installed inside Brighton’s iconic apartment block, Embassy Court, during the White Night Festival. The project is documented on the NO PLACE site. Inspired by techniques used in neuroscience experiments such as the “rubber hand” illusion, participants wear immersive video headsets and encounter environments … Read more
encephalo//graphic in performance
Extract from the encephalo//graphic animation in performance at Ropetackle Arts. An animated meditation on the different ways we experience, and visualise our experience, of music. The animation combines illustrations of brain cells by early 20th century Spanish neuroscientist Ramon y Cajal, with electroencephalographic (EEG) data recorded from the collaborators, when playing and listening to the … Read more
Animating the Mind Screening Event
image: Samantha Moore Cockerel Over Field BANG’s Animating the Mind event welcomed film-maker Samantha Moore to Brighton to talk about her new film An Eyeful of Sound. Sam is known globally for her work as an animated documentary maker, directing films like Doubled Up (2004) and The Beloved Ones (2007). She won the 2010 Nature Scientific … Read more
Dream Machine: White Night Projections
Video documentation filmed & edited by Dominic Alves The Dream Machine story culminated in a programme of animation, projected onto Brighton’s Marlborough House during the White Night festival. The projections provided the dramatic conclusion to the Dream Machine story we’d built up about Marlborough House and distributed in two comics newspapers throughout Brighton. *** You … Read more
Flash on the Beach 2010
Here is my talk on the Dream Machine project at FOTB. It was good to get the news out about what we’ve all been slaving away at these last few weeks for the Brighton Animator’s Network: below is a little vid of our project last year that transformed of Brighton’s Unitarian Church. Working on these … Read more
Music and Neuroscience: animating brains
This is a snippet of animation from the Neuroscience and Guitar event on the 22nd October, a collaboration between neuroscientist Anil Seth, musician Richard Durrant and myself. This piece of animation to accompany Richard’s new piece was projected onto a large piece of gauze during the event. The animation combines illustrations of brain cells by … Read more
Dream Machine
After months of preparing and a Summer of pre-production the BANG call out for our White Night 2010 animation and comics commission is now live! As I’ve said on the project website, Dream Machine is a large-scale animation projection event. A wondrous story of sleep experimentation and imagination, told through comics, live performance and animated … Read more
Ka-boom! A panel on comics and graphic novels for young people
Just got back from producing the comics session Ka-boom! at the Children’s Media Conference. The panel brought together David Almond, Jamie Smart, Lizzie Spratt and Esther Bircham, in a session that looked at the diverse ways in which contemporary visual and sequential literature can bring value to the lives of children and young adults. … Read more
Flickers: Off the Path at Brighton Festival
Flickers: Off the Path has it’s premier at the Brighton Festival. I’ve been working on this project as animator / performer since 2008 and it has been a real journey of discovery. The R&D trail, installed last year in a different site in Stanmer Park, used various styles of animation, from watercolour to stop-motion, and … Read more
