IRiSs Laboratories
Integrated Ruptures in Sensory spaces
Past Research Projects
IRiSs Lab #7: mined machine dreams
Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival
North Street Church: 7:00pm April 17, 2010IRiSs Lab #7 presents an experiential cinematic experience, utilizing the science and mystery of stroboscopic light theory and the Sufi inspired Dream Machine design patterns of artist Brion Gysin. This revolutionary kaleidoscopic cyclone will involve the live manipulation of projected images through the use of prisms, mirrors, and lenses as well as live sonic interpolations from the audience and the architectural space around them. Images of psychiatric experiments and counter culture recreational activities of the 1960s will float, flutter, and flicker throughout the space as the research technicians monitor their audience test subjects.
WARNING: STROBOSCOPIC EFFECTS MAY INDUCE EPILEPTIC SEIZURES IN APPROXIMATELY 1/14000 SUBJECTS. SUBJECTS MAY ALSO EXPERIENCE SOME BENEFITS.
IRiSs Lab # 6: Shadows of Construction
You Gave Me Strength to Stand Alone Again: 14th Annual Symposium of Art
Sackville Music Hall: 2 - 3pm, October 24, 2009Experiment Cancelled Due to Illness / Laboratory Quarantined due to Contamination
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dataIRiSs Lab # 5: Falling Through the Cracks
Nocturne: Art at Night, Halifax, NS
Parking Lot Next to Palookas, 2110 Gottingen Street: 8pm - midnight October 17, 2009IRiSs Lab #5 will build on themes of industrial construction and the relationship to nature and human interventions. "IRiSs" stands for "Integrated Ruptures in Sensory Spaces", and the goal of the IRiSs Lab is to create non-linear improvisational work that abandons the standard, white screen at the front of the black cinematic box, while striving to build site specific work in which projected images and sound interact with the entirety of the architecture and history of the presentation venue
Special thanks to Palooka�s IriSs Lab #5 is co-presented by THE ATLANTIC FILMMAKERS COOPERATIVE�
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dataIRiSs Lab # 4: Tracing Our Trajectories
OK,Quoi?! Festival of Art
Sackville Music Hall: 8:00 - 9:00pm July 28, 2009Media artists from Sackville, Fredericton, and Halifax will be presenting a very unique performance that merges sight, sound, and improvisation at the Sackville Music Hall on Tuesday July 28, as a part of the OK,Quoi?! Festival of Art. Participating artists include members of the Motion Ensemble, Halifax Musician Lukas Peirce, and local artists Amanda Dawn Christie, and Evan Rensch.
IRiSs Lab #4: Tracing Our Trajectories will play with images and sounds relating to themes of movement, transmission, and orbit.
IRiSs Lab # 3: Chasing the Ghosts of Architecture
Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival
North Street Church: Halifax, NS, 10:00pm April 3, 2009IRiSs Lab #3 will build on traces of past lived histories in disappearing architectures, landscapes and the human form within them. "IRiSs" stands for "Integrated Ruptures in Sensory Spaces", and the goal of the IRiSs Lab is to create non-linear improvisational work that abandons the standard, white screen at the front of the black cinematic box, while striving to build site specific work in which projected images and sound interact with the entirety of the architecture and history of the presentation venue.
IRiSs Lab # 2:
Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre
February 7, 2009Contained experiment.
No audience and one observer from the press.IRiSs Lab # 1: Integrated Ruptures in Sensory spaces
You Even Called Me Friend: 13th Annual Symposium of Art
(Music Hall: Sackville, NB), October 25, 2008
Open jam from 12:00-3:00pm
Public Performance from 4:00-5:00pmAn audio and visual improvisation environment with media artists working with laptops, contact mics, tape loops, film and video projectors, prisms, mirrors, etc. The lab will be followed by a public performance. Participating artists from Halifax and Sackville.
Preliminary Hypothesese (how it all began):
June, 2008 and beforeearly collaborations
individual explorations
and a conversation at a bar in Kelowna
support from Struts, Faucet, and AFCOOP. Early labs open jams and free-for-alls.