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Participatory media · Creative production

Nasty.

The audience becomes the image

Green screens, live mixing, improvised rigs, and a dance floor with a sense of mischief.

Nasty: live media, improvised equipment, and participation.
Nasty: live media, improvised equipment, and participation.
01

Made in the room

At Nasty, the visuals came partly from the people who had turned up to dance. The project combined a green-screen booth, live video mixing, filters, and clip capture and replay. Attendees became part of the visual material in real time.

02

An invitation to play

I worked on the participatory media setup: the point where cameras, playback, physical objects, and people met. Custom stage props and an improvised webcam rig—the HorseCam—added to the possibilities. The material did not arrive finished. It was made and remixed during the event, with the audience inside the process.

03

A little mischief helps

Cable-TV promos extended the project beyond the room. Inside it, the setup offered an invitation to try something ridiculous. A camera could be a performance tool. A green screen could become an excuse to participate. The system made space for what people brought to it.

Inside the setup / 2018

From the booth
to the room.

The green screen hung inside a pop-up event tent, lit with aluminum clamp lamps. A camera fed the laptop; the mixed video travelled to the projector and two TVs.

Video flows from the green-screen camera through HDMI-to-Thunderbolt capture to a laptop, then through Thunderbolt-to-VGA to the projector. A VGA feed converts to HDMI, then CAT5, passes through an Ethernet switch and returns to HDMI at two TVs.
Nasty Dance Party: Jefferson video setup, 2018
In motion

As seen on cable TV.