Interviews for Radiate

Posted on 26th Jun, 2012 by Emma Puente

Recently someone asked to see some examples of interview footage and I realised that I didn’t have anything of the sort up on Vimeo, so I had a rummage through my virtual drawers and uploaded a couple of clips from a series of interviews I shot and edited in 2010-2011 for an interactive resource that was developed as part of the Radiate training scheme. Radiate is a project funded by Arts Council England and the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust to provide emerging artists with practical experience and knowledge of with schools across the West Midlands.

By the end of the project I had shot interviews with ten different arts practitioners working in a range of fields from textiles and ceramics to photography and web design, based all over the West Midlands. The interviews were for an interactive tool sent out to schools on CD-ROM, which students could use to find out more about careers in the arts by selecting the practitioner and question response relevant to their interests. I really enjoyed this project as it was interesting speaking to people from different creative fields; plus I got to work with the ever-delightful Jim Duckett, whom I once shared an office with at The Hive many moons ago!

The interactive tool is not available online, but there are a few screengrabs here to give you an idea (Two Thirds Design created the tool, and were also interviewees!)

The clips below are only short snippets, but if anyone would like to see more just drop me a line and I’ll upload some more. The delightful lady and gent featured in the interviews here are Katie Jennings and Arron Fowler, whom I also used to work with at The Hive (I do know actually know some people who haven’t worked at The Hive, promise). To find out more about them and what they do, please check out the links beneath their respective videos.

Interviews for Radiate – Arron Fowler from Emma Puente on Vimeo.

Arron Fowler’s website

Interviews for Radiate – Katie Jennings from Emma Puente on Vimeo.

The Hive

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Mixed Realities

Posted on 31st May, 2012 by Emma Puente

I recently finished putting together this video for Mixed Realities, an international networked art exhibition and symposium curated by Jo-Anne Green (February 7 – April 15, 2008). Mixed Realities took place at The Huret & Spector Gallery (10 Boylston Place, 6th Floor, Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts), and online via Ars Virtua (Second Life) and Turbulence.org.

My partner‘s work The Vitruvian World was part of the exhibition, so we went up to Boston for the opening in 2008(I thought England was cold in February, sheesh), and it was a fascinating show – I love interactive artwork, being a born fiddler and button pusher!

Long after the exhibition was over, Jo-Anne approached me to ask if I could take the various images and video documents that those involved had produced and edit them into a single video document, which would be included in the Turbulence.org archive at the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. As you can imagine I had all sorts of different video file types and resolutions to work with (as different people had shot different sections) as well as many images of varying size, but I think it came together quite nicely.

Here is the completed video – music and narration by Helen Thorington.

UPDATE: The video is now also up on the Turbulence website

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POCOS 3

Posted on 4th Apr, 2012 by Emma Puente

I completed the documentation of the third and final POCOS (Preservation of Complex Objects Symposia) event, entitled Gaming Environments and Virtual Worlds  a few weeks ago and it is now available to view on Vimeo (link below). This event took place at the end of January 2012 at Novotel, Cardiff – as ever, the POCOS team were a joy to work with and I enjoyed my fleeting visit to the city; I actually got to see a bit of Cardiff this time! I’m not sure what’s next for POCOS, but I hope I have other opportunities to work with these good folks again in the future.

The sessions and presentations from all three symposia are uploaded to my Vimeo site in the Video Productions for Clients album.

And for more information about POCOS please visit their site:
POCOS

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‘Remember’ – a ONE creation

Posted on 8th Feb, 2012 by Emma Puente

This was a video I created in Nov 2011 at one of the excellent ONE (Obstructions Networking Event) workshops organised by arts practitioner and all round talented gent Arron Fowler, whereby participants are invited to create a piece of artwork within the parameters of certain criteria, or obstructions (inspired by Lars Von Trier’s film The Five Obstructions).

The obstructions for this piece, if memory serves, were:
– I could not be recognisable in the video
– Theme: ‘ending’
– Make a 3D object and feature it twice
– Abandon a technique/success strategy I usually use
– I had to interfere with the work of the other practitioners

See if you can spot how I met these parameters!

 

The ONE workshops are held on a regular-ish basis at The Creative Studio, Butcher Row, Shrewsbury – the next one will be on the 12th of February (this very Sunday) and you can find more information about the event (and ONE in general) here

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(in)Remembrance [11-M] promo video

Posted on 8th Feb, 2012 by Emma Puente

This is the second of the promotional videos I am doing for Michael – with both this one and Insurance.AES256 I had existing video project files to work from and tweak as I had created video documentation for both of these pieces in the past, so they were nice easy projects; not so for all of the others! Lots more of these coming, just not quite at the same pace 🙂

 

(in)Remembrance [11-M] is “a series of interrelated artistic interventions and works reflecting on the Madrid train bombings of 2004” and was commissioned for Manifesta 8: the European Biennial of Contemporary Art at the Museo Regional de Arts Moderno (MURAM) Cartagena, Spain in 2010.

To find out more about this artwork please visit this page on Michael’s website: (in)Remembrance [11-M]

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Promotional videos for Michael Takeo Magruder

Posted on 1st Feb, 2012 by Emma Puente

Having put together a couple of documentation/promotional videos for Michael’s artworks and installations in the past, we thought it would be a good idea to come up with a standardized format so that I could make a series of them that he could use to promote his work, send out with submissions etc. This is the video for Insurance.AES256, one of his most recent works which was commissioned for the All that Fits: The Aesthetics of Journalism exhibition at QUAD, Derby (May-July 2011), and also featured at the Filmwinter Festival in Stuttgart (Jan 2012) – the piece raises questions regarding the mysterious file insurance.AES256 released by whistle-blowing non-profit organisation Wikileaks in 2010.

 

Michael Takeo Magruder is an American artist residing in the UK – his practice “explores concepts ranging from media criticism and aesthetic journalism to digital formalism and computational aesthetics, deploying Information Age technologies and systems to examine our networked, media-rich world.” Check out his site!

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A shameless plea…

Posted on 11th Jan, 2012 by Emma Puente

Next week my partner and I are off to Germany as he is one of the artists featured in the Stuttgart Filmwinter festival (which means I have only a few days to learn some semblance of German – eek)

I edited a video for him in which he explains the artwork being featured – the work is entitled ‘Insurance.AES256’ and concerns the mysterious encrypted file released by controversial whistle-blowing organisation Wikileaks; the file’s contents have, as yet, still not been unlocked. This video is one of seven entered into a competition on the Film Winter site, and €500 will be given to the artist featured in the video with the highest ratings.

So my shameless plea? Please click on the video ‘Insurance.AES256’ by Michael Takeo Magruder and rate it 5 stars! You just have to click on the video and click on the 5th star, easy peasy! Here is the link, the site is in German but here is the Google-translated version:

NETWORK CULTURE AUDIENCE AWARD

Edit: it seems some people are having trouble with the translated link, here’s the original

If you’d like to read more about the artwork or look at some of its online iterations, please check out the information on Michael’s website

Cheers!

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POCOS 2

Posted on 11th Nov, 2011 by Emma Puente

The documentation of the second of three POCOS (Preservation of Complex Objects Symposia) events, entitled Software Art is now available to view on Vimeo (link below). This event took place over two days in October 2011 at The Lighthouse in Glasgow, it was my first ever visit to the city and indeed, to Scotland (shameful I know). I loved it there, wish I could have stayed longer!

In a couple of weeks I’ll be heading down to Cardiff to film the third and final event, Gaming Environments and Virtual Worlds. The one and only time I have been to Cardiff was a very rushed road trip to see a screening of a film that I had a bit part in, so hopefully I’ll get a chance to see some of the city this time!

All of the sessions and presentations from the second symposia are are uploaded to my Vimeo site in the Video Productions for Clients album.

And for more information about POCOS and their forthcoming events please visit their site:
POCOS

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Video for popbangcolour

Posted on 2nd Nov, 2011 by Emma Puente

Ian Cook is a Birmingham-based artist who paints using radio controlled cars, car tyres and toy car wheels. This piece was created at the UK round of the LeMans Series, the ‘Silverstone 1000km’ held at Silverstone Race Circuit, Northampton, UK.

Created on Sunday 11th September 2011, I shot the entire creation of the artwork over around 6 hours, and managed to squeeze it into this 5 minute video! The setup was one single static camera recording the whole thing, and I took various close-ups with a second camera. The music is ‘The Signal’ by BertyCox, which I came across via Jamendo, an excellent resource for free, legal and unlimited music published under Creative Commons licenses.

BMW M5 GTS by Ian Cook (popbangcolour) from Emma Puente on Vimeo.

Find out more about Ian Cook here: popbangcolour

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POCOS videos

Posted on 18th Aug, 2011 by Emma Puente

My most recent video project was the documentation of the first of three POCOS (Preservation of Complex Objects Symposia) events, entitled Visualisations and Simulations. It took place over two days in June 2011 at Kings College London, and all that they required was a single shot recording for each segment – nice and easy! I recorded all of these videos with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH1 and my audio set-up included a Sennheiser ME66 gun mic (except for the sessions in different rooms, in which case a smaller, less powerful gun mic mounted to the GH1 was used), a live feed from the PA and mic at the front of the space, and two sound recorders, my Zoom H4n and a Marantz recorder belonging to the venue.

All of the sessions and presentations from the first symposia are uploaded to my Vimeo site in the Video Productions for Clients album.

And you can find out more about POCOS and their forthcoming events here:
POCOS

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