Polyphaseportal

more info on the top-level subsite cyberboy666/polyphaseportal.xyz

together with some friends, organizers and educators we are creating a new online space to host educational programmes such as talks, live-streams, workshops and multi-week courses. taking encouragement from the success of PHASE SPACE in NYC we are aiming to facilitate accessible non-hierarchical learning over open and ethical technology – find out more at polyphaseportal.xyz & join the polyphase mailing list to stay in the loop!

Lateral_movement_03

we put on anohter club night showcasing left-field, experimental dance music and light

see more about these event series on the subsite cyberboy666.com/lateralmovement

Analogvideobreadboard

a few foundations of analog video on breadboard

design and build your own vga-synthesizer!

an interactive six part online course with cyberboy666

this winter i plan to debut a new 6 week online course about making video-art with electronics.

it will involve receiving a kit by mail of specific electronic components and breadboards and then building modules with them together each lesson

there is more information and promo material avaliable plus a waitlist sign-up form here

Scanlinesshowcase3

recording is here (for now might take it down at some point):

Trashpalace_relaunched_again

TRASHPALACE is back baby! and this time in a new format - in addition to the weekly physical screenings now you can also play along at home - we streaming each weeks programme online for exactly 7 days after at trashpalace.tv

more info and archive on the TRASHPALACE subsite

Cyberfesst2

I performed live visuals and a techno dj set (under the alias Y&$bvQe3M#yk ) for CYBERFEST 2 hosted by doomfam in cyberdoof - 24 hours of party Live in 3D cyberspace.

this set was recorded on the twitch end so i may upload it at some point - for now tho heres some stills from the stream:

Underscores

more info about this on the subsite cyberboy666.com/underscores or you can just check out the site yourself at underscores.shop

i had been working towards this launch for almost 2 years and it was getting to the point where i was embarrassed at how long it was taking - my original plan was to launch about a year earlier starting with 3 products and adding to them from there. other life things got in the way (including needing to return to berlin to handover my apartment there) and so it was delayed - i did end up polishing up anohter 5 products in the meantime so we launched with a total of 8!

Taniwhasden23

so fun to be back in the den -such a great festival - got to project onto the huge cliff-face in a really nice cinematic context (away from the dance floow, people scattered around watching the cliff from many vantage points) and also on led-panels after sunrise on the last morning

Deathtrippavideo

I collaborated with my friend odin on a music video for local grindcore artist DEATHTRIPPA - im really proud how this one came out! really nice work all around!

Twistedfrequencyfestival22 23

TWISTED FREQUENCY is NZs premier underground music festival - I was lucky enough to get to perform visuals again - this time supporting and performing visual for the emerging renegade stage THE DOJO

at usual my phone dies at festivals and i never take any photos anyway..

Lateral_movement_02

we put on a club night showcasing left-field, experimental dance music and light

see more about these event series on the subsite cyberboy666.com/lateralmovement

Meanwhilefundraiser

i exhibited some short video works at MEANEHILE GALLERY where i have my studio. this was part of there 24-hour telethon funraising event.

the works were:

• 01IF_WALLS_COULD_TALK_TEASER(2022)_1:00
• 02TRANSMISSION_TEASER(2021)_1:28
• 03CRVST(2021)_3:10
• 04gezeiten(2020)_9:07
• 05getting_out_of_bed(2017)_5:04
• 06exploration#5_(2017)_3:32

Glitchartisdead2022

Gartenparty

Gilbert, Mihaly and i organised a teevee garden party with live video synthesis, cathode ray tubes, audio-visual improv and cocktails at rote insel - it was so nice to spend time with my berlin friends again and to see them all in one place before flying home was v special

Videocircuitsberlin2022

Varietyshow

Peloton22

Spent an amazing four days with the PELOTON crew - two days of cycling through swiss country side only to arrive at an old quarry and proceed with two days of partying with the new friends you made on route

I lost any photos i may have taken during this time - heres one gilbert took of me near the start of our ride tho:

Scanlinesshowcase2

Blackmass_iii

BLACKMASS is an annual all night 12-hour movie marathon special event hosted by the film club TRASHPALACE

every year some of us make a pilgrimage to avondale’s hollywood theatre for the incredibly strange 24-hour movie marathon for those who missed this procession, for those who even our weekly tuesday penance won’t atone them - join us for a service through the darkest hours: welcome to BLACKMASS

Cerchio23

Tim Caldwell (NZL) Video-artista e programmatore neo-zelandese. L’estetica e la praticità del suo lavoro video si ispira a quella della hack culture e del cyberpunk, attraverso l’utilizzo del creative coding e di software open source, aggiungendo elementi visuali ispirati al cinema weird&trash di serie B. “In a crockpot” è un caleidoscopio di colori saturati, spirali e frattali che si fondono tra loro al ritmo incalzante di un hardcore sperimentale e selvaggio, tratto dall’omonimo album di debutto del producer Keith.

In_a_crockpot

very excited to share my music video for the titular track on KEITH ‘s debut album - IN A CROCKPOT

its been a pleasure to see this genre-defying labor of love take shape out of our home over the course of last year & its clear the result is nothing less than a masterpiece - i dont know if the world is ready yet for KEITH fully UNSHEATHED but when future music historians trace back the influence of these sounds to this singular moment i will be proud to have my art sitting here along side it 🥰🔥🥰🔥

Grains_at_meow

I was invited to perform live visuals for GRAINS at meow. since the visuals were recorded directly on my laptop we also released a few live av tracks onto youtube:

it was also fun to make glitchy visuls for JILTER OFF KILTER using written notes on the document projector:

Twistedfrequencyfestival

TWISTED FREQUENCY is NZs premier underground music festival - I was lucky enough to get to perform visuals across both of the main stages over multiple nights as well as support the setup and running of new renegade stage THE DOJO

Purplerainedit

PURPLE RAIN - REMIXED & RETOLD (2021) - ten video-artists edit, glitch and remix segments & songs from Prince’s 1984 rock musical drama film PURPLE RAIN. Featuring edits by VideoArtDuo, Chris Prine, Josh Sasson, Saiteron, Marisa DeMarini, cyberboy666, David Jackson, theB_Roll, Paul Cornett, mingkurray

Vidicon_2021talk

i presented a talk - introducing underscores.shop - an exclusive look into a project i have been working towards launching for some months now

the talk is about my plans to open a shop to sell some circuits, but also covers some history of open source, some personal experiences with video instruments and a fair bit of insufferable rambling about art, money and life 🙊

Vidicon_2021

Vidicon is a gathering of video artists, analog, digital, software, hardware and everything in between. For 3-4 days there is never ending sessions of jams, talks, workshops, impromptu art pieces, collaborations and performances.

once again scanlines.xyz is providing infrastructure to help power this festival on independent and open-source technology - its been a pleasure to help make this event happen again this year

big ups to autr for coding the frontend for our multi-stage cube interface! and ed as always for bringing us all together

Crvst_shortfilm

a (silly) little experimental short film made at home with flatmates while i couldnt access the studio due to covid lockdowns…

Transmission

TRANSMISSION is an audio visual noise-performance-art collaboration Nathaniel Sibbles and I conjured last week as part of the group show ECHOS OF OPTIC DEMISE

Lateral_movement

I created poster images and video trailers for a night of experimental dance music and club deconstruction that I was going to provide visual content for also - unfortunately due to covid restrictions the party was postponed and eventually cancelled - hopfully this idea will resurface again in more stable times

Lan_party_bakerylounge

We hosted the wgtn side of lilac.angel.nightmare’s stream party at the bakery with hyperpop//scenecore//glitchcore// mixes from _bbmage yr_mpdg stacey.leeeee and birkent.hot - i helped to set up and run the stream plus provided visuals for the whole night.

Fubar_festival_2021

fu:bar is the longest running glitch-art fesival - a celebration of errors in Zagreb, Croatia, that aims to gather contemporary glitch artists from all around the globe. This year again the festival was held completely online

I was invited to present and screen an old video piece TWO MUSHROOMS KNOCKING and partake in a panel disussion as part of their GLITCH CINEMA programme:

“GLITCH CINEMA: Poetic & critical embrace of noise & error In the beginning there was noise – thus writes Rosa Menkman in her influential Glitch Studies Manifesto (2011), a work that laid the foundations for the critical exploration of art works that incorporate noise & error as a means to examine and interrupt the normative function of the image and the media itself. These works do not only present pleasurable aesthetic objects (because, yes, dirty glitch can be indeed very pretty) - they also act as a magnifying glass drawing attention to the material basis of the technology used to reproduce moving images, whether it be celluloid, analogue video or digital apparatus. Using various means to distort the recognisable imagery (celluloid scratching, data bending, images generated by artificial intelligence etc.), they bring us exciting, vibrant, noisy and utmost dirty alternative visions that radically challenge the dominating clean, sterile imagery of contemporary digital cinema. As such, they pose fundamental questions regarding the political nature of technology, image and the reality itself. This program will showcase eight eye and mind-bending contemporary audiovisual works that offer a journey through myriad of creative & critical uses of glitch in different media (celluloid, analogue video, digital format) followed by the Q&A discussion with the artists.” - Ejla Kovačević, curator

Blackmass_ii

BLACKMASS is an annual all night 12-hour movie marathon special event hosted by the film club TRASHPALACE

every year some of us make a pilgrimage to avondale’s hollywood theatre for the incredibly strange 24-hour movie marathon for those who missed this procession, for those who even our weekly tuesday penance won’t atone them - join us for a service through the darkest hours: welcome to BLACKMASS

Arthack_ghostmachine

Bakery_lockdownlivestream

New Zealand went into a full lockdown following the COVID-19 outbreak in august last year - my flatmates and i took this oppertunity to livestream a more intimate party night of dance music and glitch visuals from our basement

Trashpalace_relaunched

now with a mailing list and website and an instagram - more info about this at the TRASHPALACE subsite

Bakerypartymemes

It has been so nice to be back in New Zealand after some years away. I have been staying in an awesome big house in the brooklyn hills known to some as the bakery. we threw an all night multistage dance party in may where i got to perform some collobarative audio visual sets with some old friends ( DESTROY WITH SCIENCE ) and new ( perescope ) ! (i also deejayed some techno iv been listening to from berlin in the early hours)

here is an excerpt from collaboration with perry (1/2 of grains ) plus me live remixing their microscope footage:

Scanlinesshowcase1

Vidicon_2020workshops

Vidicon is a gathering of video artists, analog, digital, software, hardware and everything in between. For 3-4 days there is never ending sessions of jams, talks, workshops, impromptu art pieces, collaborations and performances.

I used this opportunity to debut two different (online) video-art related workshops:

the first was a mail-in video circuit building workshop

two_comparator_effect DIY with cyberboy666 - The Comparator circuit is a Posterization video effect that produces high contrast video and differentiation. The circuit is based off a circuit design by Rob Schafer and made into an open source DIY project by cyberboy666 and the Scanlines community.

the second workshop was teaching about kicad the open source pcb routing software

Intro to KiCad: A hands on interactive workshop with cyberboy666 : Learn how to design and create printed circuit boards using the free and open source program Kicad. No prior experience needed! rsvp required as space is limited.

Vidicon_2020

Vidicon is a gathering of video artists, analog, digital, software, hardware and everything in between. For 3-4 days there is never ending sessions of jams, talks, workshops, impromptu art pieces, collaborations and performances.

scanlines.xyz provided infrastructure to help power this festival, so i was busy in the background settings things up. It’s so rewarding to see it all come together - thanks ed and everyone involved

Pikselfestival

PIKSEL is an international network and annual event for electronic art and technological freedom, organized in Bergen Norway

I was invited to speak about r_e_c_u_r, including the backstory and spinoff projects plus give a live demo of some features.

Fubar_festival_2020

fu:bar is the longest running glitch-art fesival - a celebration of errors in Zagreb, Croatia, that aims to gather contemporary glitch artists from all around the globe. This year the festival was held completely online - including inside an interactive 3d render of the medika cultural centre.

My new video piece ~ gezeiten ~ (a collaboration with berlin based producer alec budd ) premiered at this festival. both as an installation in the virtual gallery and as part of their short and experimental online film screening.

I also gave a lecture about the joys and struggles of performing with real-time analog video corruption and a live demo of a new video-circuit SYNC_OPE i have been working on with Gael Jaton.

Streamlines

Paloma and i hosted monthly livestreams from the scanlines community. watch this space - more scanlines events coming soon !

Scanlines

in the wake of physical isolation from first covid lockdowns some friends ( Paloma Kop, Andrei Jay, Olivia Jack) and i created an online community space to discuss diy video and audio projects, electronic-based art, and related interests. It is hosted on our own servers, running open source technology and intended as a refuge from large corporate social media sites. you can check it at scanlines.xyz

in addition to the (discourse) forum we also set up a chatroom, streaming server and video hosting platform for this community

Coaxial

Guergana Tzatchkova ( ichi_raramuri ) and i took the recurboy workshop to Co-axial Arts Foundation in Los Angeles. we met so many amazing people through this workshop - thanks so much to Eva and Brock for hosting us!

Marscollege

spent some time with Guergana Tzatchkova ( ichi_raramuri ) in residency at mars.college - a educational program, R&D lab, and residential community dedicated to cultivating a low-cost, high-tech lifestyle in the california dessert.

although our scheduled soldering workshop was cancelled due to sandstorm+power outage, i did get to give a talk and demo about video-art ( intro to video-art making instruments ) and perform with new friends including phillip and kyoka

Powerplayrave

performing visuals with ixianoptical and maryvizbiz at this multistage squat party on the outskirts of east berlin

Fubar_festival_2019

fu:bar is the longest running glitch-art fesival - a celebration of errors in Zagreb, Croatia, that aims to gather contemporary glitch artists from all around the globe.

Guergana Tzatchkova ( ichi_ramamuri ) and i were invited to the week-long fubar_2019 artist residency in Zagreb where we presented and hosted a video-instrument building workshop for our new project recurboy

we met and spent time with other artists from across europe and the united states. attending fubar gallery opening, film screenings, audio visual performances and many late nights with beer and börek in HACKLAB01

Videocircuitsberlin_talk

I gave a talk and demo of the r_e_c_u_r project at one of our VideoCircuitBerlin meetups

Videocircuitsberlin

Gilbert Sinnott ( autr ) and i decided to host some communtiy gatherings, featuring talks, jams, beer and hangs with artists and hobbists interested in electronic media art in berlin

Signalculture

it so happened that my plans to travel outside nz coincided with an invitation to spend some time working on my r_e_c_u_r project at Signal Culture in Owego, New York. This was an amazing experience which i want to write about in more detail soon. In short i used this opportunity to explore and push the limits of what a raspberry pi based video instrument could do. there is a more detailed write-up on this research on the github. Hopefully these new features will make it to a stable release soon !

Housepartyvideo

currently pending an ‘official release’ due to technical / bureaucratic reasons , this is an unofficial preview of the abstract colours and textures used to evoke sweet dream-pop from Adelaide, Australia.

Asalivideo

the next collaboration was an international effort, working with Piotr Dang from Owls Are Not (Poland) and vocalist Certifyd (Malaiwi) for their release Asali SP on 1000HZ Records / Atypeek Music Records

Showvideo

most of this year my focus has been on toolmaking (see r_e_c_u_r ) and travelling (without video gear), so not too much time for composing new video-art. i decided to concentrate my efforts on a series of commissioned music videos for some friends. This is the first, made with from DWS, (my longest collaborator) to coincide with his new EP Digital Devices.

Motorway

an unrealised multi-channel installation piece. maybe it will become something oneday… i actually quite like this 3 min demo as it is :

Recur

more info about this at the r_e_c_u_r subsite

Lotinsodom

more info about this at the WEMAKEPORN subsite

Backyard2

Backyard #1 was so nice Courteney and i decided to put on one more:

photos by Courteney. Matt outdid himself and shared a playlist of video recordings for all sets, day and night.

Gettingoutofbed

more info about this at the WEMAKEPORN subsite

Eyegum

(photos by Sam Blyth Collective)

Tablehooters

more info about this at the tableh00ters subsite

Underground

(photos by Rob Burrows)

Radicalmycology

Radical Mycology was looking for submissions of mushroom related tracks for the Radical Mycology Mixtape Vol. 1. Catherine, Victoria and i banged some mushrooms together, recording ambient and percussive mushroom sounds and remixed Derek Mahon’s poem a disused shed in county wexford to create two mushrooms KNOCKING. i made a video from some mushy visuals i had just recorded.

this video contains the demo recording:

for a more polished audio recording checkout the Radical Mycology soundcloud :

Parasiticcircuitry

more info about this installation at its project page

Blackmass

more info about this at the TRASHPALACE subsite

Blockparty

(photos by Rob Burrows)

Backyard1

Courteney Lomas and i thought it would be fun to put on an event in her backyard to share the various art/music projects our friends are involved in. turns out it was.

in such a relaxed and supportive environment it was nice to experiment with ideas i had never tried live before. Catherine and i put together a noise set to open the basement stage. my visual set with Henry was the first time performing with live liquids, and my MX50 mixer got his first live outing performing with Matt.

a playlist of full sets from the basement can be viewed thanks to Matts gopro

(photos by Courteney Lomas and Andy Raba)

Trashpalace

more info about this at the TRASHPALACE subsite

Taniwhasden

(photos by Kelly Kellective)

Meowrave

Osos

OS//OS - Open Source, Open Society Conference After Party !

Officeblock

121 curates a number of popular dance party events in Wellington.

(video and photos by Emmi Walden-McLean)

Deadchannel

more info about this installation at its project page

Arthack

Matt McKegg (DWS) and i have performed improvised live a/v sets together on a number of occasions. Matt performs electronic music using open-source javascript software he created called loopdrop. we have similar approaches/interests in improvising, diy, hardware etc which makes collaborating a pleasure

Pleasuredome

a live hardware visual set

using video collages created by some of my favorite films and remixed as video-art in real time. loosely inspired by the energy and passion of the minority subcultures at the heart of the first wave of house-music

Cyberboy

my exploration seires of video-art shorts were made to explore the aesthetics of new gear in my setup

exploration #1

Ian Matthews and i started poking around (carefully) inside a vhs player. i made a short using this and a damaged bowie cassette i found:

exploration #2 (corporate sponsorship)

video made with a simple diy vga-synth i started building as part of a work hackathon:

exploration #3

some ps1 circuit bending, would later use this in my interactive glitch-art installation Parasitic Circuitry:

exploration #4

experiments with symmetry and video synthesis (first plays on my edirol v4). inspired by moments from a improvised hardware jam with leo and laurence

exploration #5

i finally got around to building my cfog video equations and managed to track down a korg entrancer = 8-bit graphics and 90s rave aesthetics !

exploration #6

video inspired by my live liquid light set at Backyard Session accompanying Henry’s (BE.) dreamy compositions

Mindzone

a no-budget cyberjunk experiment

Homies

opened by Naomi Smith, more info about the space here

while in this space i curated a film night for the main area and also began experimenting with a ‘secret’ proto-TRASHPALACE cult/outsider film night in the back room. making it exclusive must have worked as these screenings were more popular than the main nights ! (pictured below)