Aurora Picture Show's Media Archeology Festival: Liquid Light to the Laptop

This video features excerpts from a recent performance by Joshua Light Show and Silver Apples, two sixties pioneers way ahead of the curve and still very relevant today. Also features excerpts from the Q&A session (Joshua White speaking) and Simeon Coxe showing us his oscillators.

Aurora Picture Show, recognized as the most innovative microcinema in Texas, held it's sixth annual Media Archeology Festival on April 17-18, 2009. The mission of this festival is to showcase artists who use, manipulate, recycle and reinvent electronic media to create live multidisciplinary performances. The theme of this years festival was the evolution of live visuals from the psychedelic light show to the real-time visual culture of today.

Venue: Brown Theater at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX

Joshua Light Show
Director: Joshua White
Performers: Bec Stupak, Seth Kirby, Brock Monroe
Light Show Music Curator: Nick Hallett

Silver Apples
Music: Simeon Coxe
Sound Engineer: Adam Daedalus

Robin Oppenheimer: Media Arts Historian

Festival Curator: Bree Edwards / Be Johnny

With additional support from The University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Houston Arts Alliance and the Film Department at the MFAH

Video: Johnny DeKam

References:
aurorapictureshow.org
joshualightshow.com
silverapples.com
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Light_Show
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_apples
rhizome.org/editorial/2522
bejohnny.com

Technical data:
Filmed with Canon XH-A1 in widescreen DV mode 24p.
854x480 native resolution. Stereo Audio from built in mic.