Video Mash Up with Marlon Barrios Solano - A Harvestworks Digi Camp for Ages 9 and up :: Contact: Carol Parkinson 212-431-1130 x 12 :: Where: Harvestworks, 596 Broadway Suite 602 NYC 10012 (at Houston Street) :: 212-431-1130 :: Dates: August 6 - August 17 Monday - Friday Time: 10am - 1pm.

Video mashups is a new and experimental art form where videos from multiple sources are edited together into a new video. To date, many of these video mashups have been parodies, but even music mashups are being integrated with them to make combined audio-visual media mashups. The creation of “mashups” implies the capacity to meaningfully and creatively sample and remix media content. The video mashup has come of age thanks to the likes of YouTube, Rocketboom and others.

Video mashups can be presented as short video pieces and distributed on the internet. They may also be performed live using real-time video applications in venues as diverse as theaters, galleries, dance clubs, movie theaters and outside buildings.

Description of Activities: Students will be introduced to different video mash-up and live video performance styles and techniques. With very a fun and “hands-on” approach, students will also be exposed to internet resources, open source and authorship issues, image content development and to explore the expressive potential of sound-image relationship with “found” content and its creative implications. The students will conduct supervised research on the genre over the internet looking for open source visuals and digital imagery. The students will develop a final live video performance and post their mash-ups in an special account in You Tube. This is an exciting and fun way to introduce them to creative expression with cutting edge technology and a direct experience on creativity deploying the ability to meaningfully sample ans remix media content. Each student will be assigned a Macintosh computer with internet access.\

About the Instructor:

Marlon Barrios Solano is a Venezuelan dance/new media artist, teacher and researcher, US-based since 1994. He directs, performs, researches and designs improvisational digital real-time environments for performances and electronic music performance; recent projects include collaborations with musicians, choreographers, dancers, architects and new media artists. Residencies include The Advanced Computing Center for Arts and Design (Ohio State University); Interaktionslabor 2004 (Germany), Denison University; STEIM (The Netherlands), ZKM (Germany), The Aesthteic Technologies Lab at Ohio University, and Digital Cultures Lab (UK). He has performed live visuals in NYC (Eyewash, MOMA, Monakeytown, Share NY) and Europe and led workshops in real-time video for teenagers at the Wexner Center (Columbus OH). He holds an MFA in Dance and Technology from The Ohio State University. He has lectured extensively on performance, interactive media and embodiment in South America, Europe and the USA.