Lyle Mays and friends explore music based on physics equations, Feynman’s speech patterns and more, using improvisation, algorithmic composition, live video mixing, and a custom designed linked laptop network while Jon 9 performs live video mixing on a souped-up Hippotizer… Part of the TedX CalTech event in Pasadena, CA in 2011.

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• PRESS COVERAGE
• PHOTOS

( EPK Produced  by Francois Bernadi, Contact Prods./NYC (www.contactprod.net)

LAX Public Video Art Project: SEE CHANGE

Permanent Installation:
Tom Bradley International Arrivals Terminal

Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) / LAX
Work by 17 Artists commisioned BY L.A. Dept of Cultural Affairs

System designed and Programmed by Jon 9
96 Screens, 60 Media Servers
Project Directed by: Felicia Filer,  Los Angeles Dept of Cultural Affairs
Art Manager, Los Angeles World Airports:  Sarah Ciffarelli
Art Consultant / Curator:  Anne Bray

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HOLONYNE TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE:  HIPPOTIZERS

For the last four years I have been working with Hippotizer Media Servers from Green Hippo in London, distributed in the US by TMB.  There are lots of cool reasons (besides the name – who doesn’t want a green hippo ??) why I have used these servers in two major commercial installations and lots of art projects, nightclub gigs, and production scenarios.

SOME HIPPOTIZER PROJECTS

• Cirque du Soleil, LOVE, Mirage Casino, Las Vegas (20 Hippotizers)
• “SEE CHANGE” public video art project, LAX International Arrivals Terminal (60 Hippotizers)
• supperclub, l.a., Opening (Holonyne Hippotizer Hi-Performance system)
• “Le Dome de Paris“ multi-image immersive dome projections for Vortex Immersion Media (3 Grasshoppers driving 8 projectors)
• “Digital Dreams in 9 Dimensions” psychedelic video art piece – using Hippotizer as a multi-layer realtime  production tool.
• TedX Caltech Conference, Improv Filmmaking with Lyle Mays/Chaos Collective  (Holonyne Hippotizer high Performance system)

(1) Hippo HD w/ HD-SDI input
(1) Panasonic digital image mixer
(1) Panasonic rmote control camera (1080P)
(1) Barco ScreenPro II
(1) Samsung Blu-Ray
All digital signal path, 1080P throughout

Here’s why I like Hippos so much…

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The inner life of plastic people…

Featuring LUCIA HWONG
Camera: Antonio Howard
Director / Editor: Jon 9

Created for Adele Rootstein / NYC

Part of a 60:00 minute hi-def video art piece by Jon 9.

In 2004 I created an HDTV video art show called FLO for broadcast on the first hi-def 24-hour satellite netowrk, VOOM / Cable Vision.

This piece, PROMETHEON, was our first show and features Courtney Marit displaying her art as a fire dancer and discussing her thoughts as a performer and artist.
(Part 2 below)

“While I was heading up LAB HD, a channel devoted to video art, I commissioned a sequence from FLO, an HD video cycle created by Jon9.  It was a remarkable feast for the senses, integrating hypnotic video with original music compositions, and it proved to be one of the more popular broadcasts that year. “

Ali Hossaini, Executive Producer, LAB HD, VOOM

More videos in the FLO series: (COMING SOON)
PHOTOSYNTHETIKA
EXSTASY
SHAMANDALA #9
PHREE

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Music arranged by Chuck Wild, performed by Michael Angel.  Directed and edited by Jon 9.

EVEL KNIEVEL Tribute created for the 1-year anniversary celebration of ICON Magazine at Ace Gallery in Soho, NYC.  Evel appeared in person, riding in on a red white and blue Harley.