UVP Mobile Projection Wagon

The beta-version of the UVP Mobile Projection Wagon, a red Radio Flyer wagon modified for urban projection, made its debut at The Palace Theatre in Syracuse, NY on April 20th. Riding on the coattails of the Syracuse International Film Festival, UVP created Top Ten Box Office, a video combining climactic clips from the top ten highest grossing American films of all time. Here's the list at imdb.com

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-posted Monday May 7, 2007-

UVP Vol. 2 @ Spark, March 15th

Urban Video Project Volume 2 took place at Spark Contemporary Art Space during Third Thursday (Th3) on March 15th. The date fell during Syracuse University's spring break, limiting the audience to those embittered souls not able to fly away to Place-Warmer-Than-Syracuse. The event featured two 3'x7' window video installations rear-projected onto spandex screens, a video installation by Christopher Gianunzio exploring his birthplace and search for his birth parents, a video installation and performance by Colin Todd documenting his surveillance and stalking of random strangers, and a 6-channel sound installation and performance by Blake Carrington documenting his Audio Walks, narrated dérives where he grabs sound from signs, objects and environments around the city.

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-posted Monday March 26, 2007-

Guerrilla Drive-In Cinema 03

Hitchcock's "The Birds" is projected onto a rather dirty snowbank, with the fortress-like Carousel Center supermall in the distance. Following the movie, a still frame of firefighters spraying the birds while the city burns is tagged with elements highlighting movement around the projected image and the physical snowbank.

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-posted Monday March 26, 2007-

Guerrilla Drive-In Cinema 02

"The Endurance", a documentary about Shackleton's Antarctic expedition, is projected onto a parking lot snow bank. (no sound)

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-posted Monday March 19, 2007-

Redline

Pseudo-Antarctic explorer tags a red trajectory onto a wall of snow and ice alongside Interstate 90.

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-posted Thursday March 8, 2007-

Guerrilla Drive-In Cinema 01

The first action by Avalanche Collective was a drive-in movie screening of Akira Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" projected onto a snow bank in a strip mall parking lot behind Taco Bell. Drive-thru customers running for the border caught sight of the spectacle, but were ultimately seduced by imminent consumption of meximelts and 7-layer burritos. Following the screening, an artifact of the event was left on the snow bank in the form of a graffiti-tagged subtitle from the film: your head is on the block, and all you can think of are your whiskers.

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-posted Sunday February 25, 2007-