Realtime Visual Workshop + Sudden Sound Concert
Thursday, March 10, 2011 :: FREE
Krannert Art Museum - East Gallery
500 East Peabody Drive, Champaign, IL

1-5pm :: Drop-In Workshops :: Realtime Visual Performance with Psymbolic

This interactive, hands-on workshop will provide a tour through the art of creating motion graphics for realtime performance using various timeline, code based and node based technology. Drop in to learn how to edit, composite, encode, and program visual content for concerts and live performances. Contact Psymbolic to receive relative software links and tutorials.

7:30-9:30pm :: Sudden Sound Concert w/ Rozanne Levine and Chakra Tuning plus Ferrocene3, featuring Live Interactive Visual Performances by Psymbolic & ROOKtv

Chakra Tuning is an East Coast-based extended clarinet ensemble led by Rozanne Levine (clarinets, bamboo flute), with acclaimed composers/bandleaders Mark Whitecage (saxophone, clarinet), Perry Robinson (clarinets), and Rosi Hertlein (violin, voice). Chakra Tuning will perform with custom collaborative visual environments by Psymbolic and in collaboration with Urbana-based improvising ensemble Ferrocene3.

PSYMBOLIC >> This catalytic duo (Julee & Troy) are Audio / Visual Event Engineers that create Live Interactive Visual Environments in which they project evolving expression through their video compositions and the realtime surrounding spectacles. Psymbolic always aims to provide a customized thematic performance with synchronous moments of meaning and inspiration.

Psymbolic's theme orientated visuals are composed of customized video modules, in which they have been personally creating and producing by means of animation, compositing and programming since 99. During a live performance they use customized code-based and node-based visual software along with hardware to synch video loops, camera inputs and effects to the mood of the momentous music.

Austin Motion Graphics Festival 2010
October 18th through 24th
New Motion + New Sound + New Code = http://MGFest.com

Austin TX --- The Austin Motion Graphics Festival provides seven days of educational, entertainment and networking events featuring artists such as: Herzog & de Meuron, Lucas Arts, N.A.S.A. w/ Tom Waits and Kanye West, Basement Jaxx, Warp Records, Ninja Tune, Royksopp, The Crystal Method, Puma, The Flashbulb, Carl Burgess, The Mill, Dvein, Pleix, Psyop, Max Hattler and many more.

A full week of entertainment events kick off Monday with the Austin Film Meet, a networking event for those passionate about creating films, movies, and new media projects. Tuesday night, MGFest premiers a Screening Series featuring the best of international call for entry submissions as well as selections from Stash's DVD Magazine and Lumen Eclipse's video art exhibits in Boston's Harvard Square. Curated from international talent, the screenings set the tone for MGFest's focus of showcasing innovative local and global artists. Wednesday night, Android meets free beer at the Austin Flash Group Meetup, a short speaker series including Ryan Stewart, a special guest from Adobe, covering AIR for Android, a Flash framework review, with free pizza and beer. Thursday night's installation art showcase, "The Digital Made Analog," takes place at the US Art Authority and features Austin-local installation, interactive, and projection artists in a buffet of media mayhem.

As the week transitions into weekend, The Austin Motion Graphics Festival culminates into Art Outside, a 3-Day camping festival at the beautiful Apache Pass festival grounds near Rockdale, Texas. The site features hundreds of acres of grassy camping areas and lush pecan trees scattered throughout. Over the weekend, festival participants experience the creations of over 300 Artists including: Random Rab, Gift Culture, Artificial Life Preserver, The Wave Farmers, Psymbolic--visuals, Win Win Creative, VJ Mason Dixon, Paul Baker, Michael Christian, Art of Such-N-Such, Life-Size Mousetrap, Ricochet, Elemental Uprising, 999 Eyes Freakshow, Agent Red, Blockhead, God-des and She, Spoonfed Tribe, Community Art Makers, The Art Department, George Krause, Minor Mishap, Gyronauts, T-Bird and the Breaks, Heyoka, Brownout!, Govinda, Anahata Sound, plus many more!

MGFest's educational program consists of daytime, hands-on workshops Monday through Thursday at LumenBrite Training in the Design Center of Austin. Workshop topics include: Maxon's Cinema 4D with Mograph, programming-based animation with Adobe Flash ActionScript, and creative motion design with Adobe After Effects and Photoshop.

The Motion Graphics Festival is the premier creative conference for motion design, visual effects, sound design and interface technology - presenting a wide array of events including: art showcases, workshops, studio tours, theater screenings, industry mixers, and audio visual showcases.

MGFest Austin is sponsored by: Adobe, Maxon, Stash, United States Art Authority, Art Seen Alliance, LumenBrite, VidVox, IdN, Netdiver, Gen Arts, Resolume, Boris FX, Livid Instruments, Red Giant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Digieffects, Lumen Eclipse, Toolfarm, Noise Industries, lynda.com, Total Training + more!

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$25 MGFest Austin Weekday Arts and Entertainment

$7 MGFest Austin Thursday Digital Made Analog Pass

(All Arts & Workshop Passes below include the Art Outside weekend)

$85 MGFest Austin All Arts Access Pass (Midweek Special)

$119 MGFest Austin Monday Animating w/ Actionscript 3 Workshop

$119 MGFest Austin Tuesday Interactive 3D in Actionscript 3 Workshop

$119 MGFest Austin Wednesday Creative Techniques w/ After Effects & Photoshop Workshop

$119 MGFest Austin Thursday Cinema 4D Essentials Workshop

$155 MGFest Austin All Arts Access Pass w/ Art Outside RV

MGFest Austin is sponsored by: Adobe, Maxon, Stash, United States Art Authority, Art Seen Alliance, LumenBrite, VidVox, IdN, Netdiver, Gen Arts, Resolume, Boris FX, Livid Instruments, Red Giant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Digieffects, Lumen Eclipse, Toolfarm, Noise Industries, lynda.com, Total Training + more!

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Boston Motion Graphics Festival 2010
April 1st through 5th, All Around the City
New Motion + New Sound + New Code = http://MGFest.com

The Motion Graphics Festival launches its 2010 tour by returning to Boston from April 1st to 5th. MGFest will bring a new wave of artists and technologists to awaken those sleeping synapses. Witness and participate in a convergence of motion, sound and interactivity, embrace new ideas, celebrate the inquisitive spirit, and at evening's approach, dance.

MGFest stands as the premier creative conference for motion design, visual effects, sound design and interface technology, presenting a wide array of events including: art showcases, workshops, panel discussions, studio tours, theater screenings, industry mixers and audio visual showcases.

Featured artists include: Herzog & De Meuron, Warp Records, LucasArts, N.A.S.A., Yoshi Sodeoka, Jean-Paul Frenay, Alan Sondheim, Addictive TV, Liquid Stranger, Royksopp, Assassin's Creed 2, Three Legged Legs, Larry Carlson, Pleix, Dvein, Psyop, The Mill, The Crystal Method, Ken Adams, Jen Stark, Shantell Martin and many more.

The Festival debuts the 2010 schedule with screenings by Lumen Eclipse, "Psychedelia" and "Somatic Death, Soma Life". Journey down the road set by thirteen artists exploring a new mind-manifesting experience, challenging afresh perceptions and pointing towards a reawakening unhindered by the prosthetic body.

The Boston Motion Design Conference on Friday, April 2nd is a full-day conference featuring diverse topics and inspiring presenters from AVID, Fox, MIT, Maxon, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a keynote presentation from technical lead of the Processing.js project that is porting Ben Fry's Processing language to javascript. He will be featuring the new 3D capabilities of the next version of the Firefox web browser.

Friday night's Best of 2009 screening by Stash DVD Magazine highlights music videos, virals, short films, commercials, broadcast designs and game cinematics from top-tier studios across the world. Something will grab your attention, setting off a chain reaction thus igniting a fresh set of ideas.

Hands-on Workshops happen Saturday, April 3rd with Maxon Cinema 4D Essentials, Animating with ActionScript 3, and Animation in a Browser with jQuery.

Saturday night's realtime A/V performance in the 2012 Lounge at Machine features Liquid Stranger with the Psymbolic visual show and Z.E.E. The visuals are rendered in realtime, seamlessly spread across 3 full-HD resolution projections. The entire evening experience brought to you by Zebbler, Vermin Street and MGFest.

Monday April 5th, MGFest hosts a Boston Meetup and Barcamp, encouraging meetup groups across the city to overcome the alienation of specialties and explore the patch panel of skills and technologies that contribute towards great video, audio and code-based design. The super-meet promotes healthy cross-pollination for a creative industry that regularly celebrates our diversity. The event is an open-discussion for designers, artists and programmers to have an interactive, collaborative environment to begin and innovate next-gen visual-audio projects, and takes place from noon to 4pm at the Bocoup Hack-space. Participating groups include: Boston Motion Graphics, Boston Final Cut Pro Users Group, Boston PHP Meetup, Upgrade! Boston, Boston jQuery, Boston Anime & Japanese Film Meetup Group, Boston Web Design Meetup Group, Nettime.org and more.

For those further interested in animation and video on the web, MGFest concludes by hosting two jQuery presentations, one beginner, one advanced. Michael Bourque of Boston PHP presents Intro to jQuery at MIT, while at the same time across town Paul Irish of Molecular will be presenting an advanced jQuery development workshop.

The Boston Motion Graphics Festival is sponsored by Maxon, MassArt, Lumen Eclipse, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Stash, Future Media Concepts, Bocoup, Netdiver, IdN and Cambridge Arts Council.

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DecaDance :: a Chicago New Years Celebration
NYE2010 :: Thursday, December 31st
http://www.Psymbolic.com/events

Celebrate the New Year at an incredible space with friends and
amazing talent! Experience a full integration of music, vision
and movement. Providing full-scale environmental design in
multiple rooms, bringing together a wide range of creative
talents to inspire, awe, and activate your mind.
This Event will only happen once.

Catalyst Stage:
*) 1000 Vertical Feet / 1kvf --- [Live Jam / DJ / Rock]
*) Environmental Encroachment / EE --- [Magic Circus Band]
*) Estesombelo --- [Live Instrumental Ambient / Experimental]
*) Searchl1te / Dubfront --- [DJ / IDM / Dubstep / Experimental]
*) Carla Starla --- [DJ w/ Live Vocals / House / Electronica]
*) Duke --- [DJ / Electro / Techno]
*) Dominic Johnson / New Millennium Orchestra --- [Live Viola w/ DJ set]
*) Weston Rose --- [Ukulele]
*) Jason Seed --- [Live Guitar / Nu-Jazz]

Chilluminati Stage:
*) Primordial Ooze --- [Live Psychedelic / Trance / Downtempo]
*) Alberto / Cosmic Traveler --- [DJ / Minimal Techno]
*) Chris Widman / Abstract Science --- [DJ / IDM / Dubstep]
*) M50 --- [DJ / IDM / Techno]
*) Jeekoos / Dubfront --- [DJ / Dubstep / Experimental]
*) S.O.T --- [DJ / Psymbient]
*) Kaiser Soze --- [DJ / Psymbient]
*) Aktif --- [DJ / Minimal Techno]

Synchronistic VJing Visuals:
*) Merkaba visuals --- [Live VJ / Visual Performance]
*) Audrey Sica / Stoptime341 --- [Live VJ / Visual Performance]
*) Nathan Peck / RookTV --- [Live VJ / Visual Performance]
*) Nat Soti / Chicago Art Department --- [Live VJ / Visual Performance]

Multimedia Visual Installations:
*) Galina Shevchenko --- [Floating Visual Orbs]
*) Edyta Stepien --- [Suspended Self / Video Installation]
*) Gordon Kummel / mindfield --- [Interactive Visual Stations]

Cocktail and Beer Bar
Complimentary New Year Champagne Toast

Happening @ Catalyst Collective in Chicago
Held in a beautiful artist loft in the North & Pulaski neighborhood.
Complete Event Info emailed after ticket purchase, week of event.

All Profits go towards supporting the Arts and Artists.

Very Limited amount of $20 Advanced Tickets
then $25 / $35 day of event

Advanced Tickets + Event Info:
http://www.Psymbolic.com/events

Written by Jameson Wallace
Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Advertisers designing retail spaces have coined the term "Experience Design" to describe the full coordination of the digital technology used in the store.

Event producers on the other hand create temporary versions of these designed experiences, and with the proliferation of digital devices into nearly every area of our lives, those that produce large-scale multimedia events are increasingly looking to new emerging media forms to enhance the excitement of participants.

Event producers like Psymbolic's Troy Milstead and Julee Wood orchestrate mediums such as music, video, lighting, digital kiosks, flat panel televisions, mobile devices, camera crews, actors, interior decorating, installations, sculptures and web-enabled interactive custom devices.

"As artists, we strive to create something that engages an audience and captures their imagination without distracting them from the social environment around them." Troy explains.

In 2008 for the first time, the Chicago Convention & Tourism Bureau integrated live video projection and new media elements into their annual Burnham Bash by working with Psymbolic. This annual event is a gathering of approximately 1,000 of Chicago’s top industry professionals and decision makers as well as distinguished representatives from government, non-profits, civic organizations and the media.

In follow up to the gala, creative director, Rani Woolpert expressed, "Psymbolic mixed a gorgeous canvas of imagery that played out beautifully in the space. I loved the montages of four images at a time. They were like master canvases. Combined with the lighting, the video canvases you created put guests into a rich landscape of color and a celebration of Chicago as a beautiful city. The space seemed to inspire people."

Rani continued, "I spoke with at least two individuals who have produced events in the Navy Pier's Grand Ballroom who said they had never seen it look like that. I wish you could have seen the look in the eyes of the person I was talking with, who is the president of one of the leading destination management companies in the city. He was just in love with the room. You get the idea. I am still living in the painting, and it is beautiful. Thank you for your professionalism and aesthetic sensibilities. I am so glad you were available for this event! To many more!!!"

Another event being an award ceremony put on by 40 North | 88 West - Champaign County's Arts Council presents the ACE Awards for recognition in Arts, Culture and Entertainment given out annually during the National Arts & Humanities Month.

In 2008, 40 North called upon Psymbolic to create an effective way to capture, display and visually communicate the award ceremony. What was being awarded, the meaning of the award, and the background information about the award winner was visually delivered to multiple rooms of the venue uniting the entire audience. Following the award ceremony, Psymbolic performed again during the after party showing real time visuals coordinated to live performances and diverse music.

In follow up to the award ceremony, director of operations, Steven Bentz expressed, "I want to thank Psymbolic again for the outstanding efforts surrounding last week’s 40 North ACE Awards. Your video elements helped make this year’s ceremony a complete success and something that people around the community are still commenting on." The Champaign News-Gazette, in one of their two follow-up articles praised the "glitzy" production values at the event.

Steven continued, "[Psymbolic's] excellent pre-production and live execution gave the ACE Awards a much greater impact for people attending the event, and we can’t thank you enough for your support. With your help, 2008 was the smoothest, most effective ACE Award presentation yet."

Psymbolic has been invited to design the experiences of both events again this year.

With the ever increasing speed of computer processors and mobile devices, these technologies offer a bold new palette of options for event architects.

"We're living in a time where computers are finally fast enough to be used for high-resolution realtime visual performance." commented Troy. "There's nothing quite like the feeling of introducing something new and witnessing the amazement. The art and challenge is to create visual environments that synchronize with the mood of the moment."

Psymbolic started out as an artist name for Julee & Troy (soon to be renamed V-DUO) and over the past decade Psymbolic has evolved into a Multimedia Label representing a select roster of audio, visual and multimedia artists that go above and beyond to create memorable events.

You can learn more about these newest changes in multimedia event production at Psymbolic's nationally touring Motion Graphics Festival. The Festival offers educational workshops on many of the technologies used to create unique event experiences in addition to showcasing the explosive artists and creators that develop them.

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