Saturday, September 15, 2018

Palinopsia/seeing again

‘Palinopsia / seeing again’ is a laser projection work on a Glow-in-the-Dark (GITD) surface that Jurgen Meekel and Jill Richards made in collaboration with engineers Daniel de Kock and Jarryd Bekker.  


The Laser work
The most recent iteration of the work was the practical component for Jurgen’s MAFA exhibition: ‘Palinopsia: Images at their Ends: A Practice-based study in Traces, Temporality and Image Dissipation, using Glow In The Dark Laser Technology as a Medium for Contemporary Art.’
A short clarifying 3 min registration from an exhibition at Wits / Point of Order, 2018 can be found at https://youtu.be/N9zCj4SYF90.

With a purplish-blue UV laser as a projection source and using fully covered painted phosphorescent canvas as the projection surface, after-glowing images are projected that appear line by line (much like a fax or inkjet printer). In this way, the projection canvas records the image. The projected image/text elements will diminish in luminosity over time. New elements are projected as the older ones fade.

When projecting with lasers onto a glow-in-the-dark surface the image will leave a clear green trace and remains visible for some time (4-6 min). After that, one can re-project over the remaining image to create a visual layering.  The way temporality and perseverance leave a finite mark or trace of the projected image positions glow-in-the-dark laser projection between cinema and photography.


The Performance
The proposed work for ISEA will be a collaboration between Jurgen Meekel and Jill Richards. Similarly to G-I-T-D laser projection, music operates on the basis of time. Therefore we have chosen existing contemporary musical pieces (recordings of my performances), self-composed pieces and pre-produced soundscapes from various audio recordings that have a relationship with temporality and decay. There will be 5 sections of each 10 / 20 minutes. The individual sections are different ways to engage and play with the medium, wherein some parts the improvised and premeditated music and sounds propel the projection and vice-versa in other parts.
Like this, an audience will also be able to distinguish the difference between the sound and the visual approaches. There will be overlapping transitions in visual and audio depending on the dissipation of the images and timing of the soundscapes. It takes around 8 minutes for an image to fully dissipate and we will also use sounds that linger. 

The sections: 
Fragments and omissions
Palinacousis (hearing again)
Decay
Silence and edges
Impermanence


Thursday, February 23, 2017

Video work at the Centre for the Less Good Idea - Jurgen Meekel









Time / Louder / Faster 
Jurgen Meekel (2017)

The video installation piece includes three different projections in a triptych arrangement. It shows digitally manipulated video footage that was gathered during the first workshop held at the Centre for the Less Good Idea in December 2016. The video material, that contains mainly dance and boxing, is treated with a filter that takes a number of video frames before and after the current frame. This produces a wavery effect.

In addition, there’s an audio recording that runs simultaneously with the 3 videos, containing music and sounds that were also produced during the December workshop. The loudness-intensity of the audio track propels the footage forward, in a faster or slower manner. In other words, the higher dB’s (decibels) the faster the video moves forward in time and the lower the dB’s the slower it moves.The piece uses audio and video material that was recorded at the workshop, hence I would like to thank all participants that were subjects’ or involved in producing the recordings in this piece.

credits:
’Time, Louder, Faster' by Jurgen MeekelVoice: Ann Masina
Percussion: Tlale Makhene

Most prominent dancer in the video: Thulani Chauke
Camera: Dusko Marovic, Ivan Leathers, Jurgen Meekel

Sound Recording: Gavan Eckhart

This work is a triptych of 3 video and will be featured in Season 1 as part of the Blackboard Projections
exhibition which is free to the public between 1 and 5 March 2017. 

Wednesday, September 7, 2016



Palinopsia-(seeing again) is my new laser Projection work on a Glow-in-the-Dark surface that was made in collaboration with BushveldLabs. The premiere of this digital art project was shown the Alight festival on 1 Sept 2016 in Johannesburg. When projecting with lasers onto a GITD surfaces, the image will leave a trace and remains visible for some time. After that, one can re-project over the remaining image to create visual layering. The way temporality and the mark relate to each other, positions glow-in-the-dark laser projection between cinema and photography.

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

The Missing Link from Lausanne



'The Missing Link from Lausanne' (Jurgen Meekel - 2015)
 side and frontal view 
 glazed porcelain, (30 x 12 x 25cm - l,w,h) 

Monday, November 14, 2011

Animation


Made these two animations with Mileta and Sanja Postic, David Vannucci, Richard Markham and Ann-Marie Tully for the presentation / handover of the South African National Development Plan on 11-11-11.


Made these two animations with Mileta and Sanja Postic, David Vannucci, Richard Markham and Ann-Marie Tully for the presentation / handover of the South African National Development Plan on 11-11-11.





For the Jeff Barbee Cape to Amsterdam sea trip diary I designed this title sequence.
The size is small as it was sent to me from the sailng ship via satellite, which was quite costly. In the course of 3 months we uploaded 20 similar video's reporting on climate change in the Atlantic ocean.


Monday, May 30, 2011

Work and Play

Kammakastigland (short feature, ±12min)
a title seq and posters / banner from 2007










































mosaic

















photoshopped big guy





















Friday, December 11, 2009

I, the writer MUSIC VIDEO

Music Video for I, the writer - Come and see them.
Shot on 3 Kodak C913 camera's simultaneously using a custom made rig on 7th str 4 hrs in Melville, Johannesburg.
or
view and download on drop.io
View come-and-see-them-final-1-mp4



Sunday, October 18, 2009

HOUSES, SHOES, BELLA and WEIMAR

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view in Higher Quality on http://www.wix.com/purge63/Fiddlin-in-flash
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Houses

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stole a ... picture at ffffound.com
é animé overflakkéé..
merci

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tea cosy x 3

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l' homage _to_ William Wegmam

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Post Pancreatic Stress Syndrome


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Corregation

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Hedgehock

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24/7

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Sunday, April 5, 2009

WORK [kr4k] installation pieces
















'Dagsoep' (1994) Theater Aan de Werff fesival, Utrecht jurgen meekel























'Dagsoep' (1994) Theater Aan de Werff fesival, Utrecht jurgen meekel























'Vous êtes ici' (1991) Gallery het Recept jurgen meekel















'Warning this is not a life saving device,..' Centraal Museum (1989) jurgen meekel
























'Cornelis Coot' for Groninger Strip Museum (2004)


















'Golden Shower' (1995) Volia, Pignans (Provence) jurgen meekel

















'Golden Shower' (1995) Volia, Pignans (Provence) jurgen meekel
















'Golden Shower' detail (1995) Volia, Pignans (Provence) jurgen meekel





















'Untiled' (1995) DAAR, Amsterdam jurgen meekel



















'Beinvenue aux combattantes de la derniére heures' (1993) Lacoste (Provence) jurgen meekel

















'Beinvenue aux combattantes de la derniére heures' (1993) Lacoste (Provence) jurgen meekel























'Zinkgas' Amsterdam RAI (1989) jurgen meekel

















'Hospitality' (1996) Gappler W+P, Amsterdam jurgen meekel

















'Stoeprandtrappetje' pavement staircase (1993) de verloren zaak jurgen meekel
















'Worst' Arti et Amiticea (1994) Amsterdam jurgen meekel













'kerststal' nativity scene at DAAR (1992) jurgen meekel



















'het haar van de baard' oude kerk, amsterdam (1990) jurgen meekel

WATCH in HQ



I uploaded this to YouTube in High Quality,
Unfortunately, this blog format does not show the HQ switch
to activate viewing in HQ. Damn...