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Dual 56k at Mass MoCA
Saturday August 15^th 2009
Live DJ / VJ Performance

Photos on Flickr / Mass MoCA blog

For our presentation, we were granted special permission to carry out a series of simple gesture-based performances in Mass MoCA’s galleries. Wearing chroma-key green body suits and occasionally rocking hotel bathrobes, we shot a series of playful videos based on spontaneous reactions to our first in-person encounters with works in Sol LeWitt’s wall-drawings retrospective. Assuming the role of ‘just two friends on vacation’ we performed waves, walks, falls, lifts, and some simple rule-based motions with LeWitt’s works as backdrops.

Night-vision cameras, a cellular automata video synthesizer by Critter and Guitari, limiters, a vintage Atari Video Music, customized software patches, and other treats from M@’s toy-chest made our videos come alive on Mass MoCA’s 3 story projection screen. To bring LeWitt down off the walls and to our party under the stars, we keyed out the greens in both our suits and his paintings, flattening our bodies and integrating them into the work. This created a psychedelic blend of abstract shapes, silhouettes, and motions that both lit up the dance floor and paid homage to a true 20^th century great.

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Along with the video work, we played the following tracks:

M.I.A. – Bingo (Diplo remix)
LCD Soundsystem – Losing My Edge
Aaliyah – Tell Me Your That Somebody
Justice – D.A.N.C.E.
Daft Punk – Vs. Gwen Guthrie (U-Tern edit)
Escort – All Through the Night
Michael Jackson – Remember the Time
Outkast – Rosa Parks (DJ Mel remix)
O.D.B. – Got Your Money
A Tribe Called Quest – Oh My God
Naughty By Nature – O.P.P.
Rick Ross – Hustlin’
Missy Elliot – Work It
Alter Ego & Ghostwriters feat. Lil Keke– Ghostmusick (Baltimoroder edit)
Daft Punk – Da Funk
Cam’ron – Hey Ma