LUZIDEN!

Luziden is coming up quickly. Very quickly.

I want to invite everyone out to the premiere, which is at Space 242, connected to the Dig Offices.

Here's the specs:

April 24th
6-8pm
242 E. Berkeley St.
Boston MA.

You can get there easily by taking the Silver Line from Boylston, into the South End. Get off at the East Berkeley stop and take a left.

There will be an open bar, so get there early if you actually want free beer. The line gets long. Luziden is showing as part of the Weekly Dig's Final Fridays, which is an event designed to showcase their new exhibit of the month. This month it's DESTROY BOSTON. I'm excited for that as well. It's a really sweet space, too, if you haven't been there.

Luziden was also selected to show at the Huret and Spectre Gallery at Emerson (being an Emerson kid doesn't get you in automatically, trust me). That's running May 1-18th, in the Tufte Building.

A short documentary called "In the Dreaming Mind", which I guess I'm making, will be showing at the Coolidge Corner Theatre on May 15th. I'll post the times as soon as I know.

Wait, something I'm making is going to play at the Coolidge? I'm sorry, that just occurred to me and it blew my mind a little. Wow. Yeah. Okay, moving on.

If you go to the BFA screenings (which you should, in any case), they will be May 17th at the Museum of Fine Arts. Still don't know the exact time of that, either. But stills, and possibly production stills, for Luziden will be playing at intermission. At that point though, there will only be one more day to see it at the Huret and Spectre, so you better get with the program.

Here is an overview of the entire deal:

If traditional cinema is, as Jacques Lacan claims, a Freudian dreamstate, Luziden
attempts to be the cinematic equivalent of a lucid dream - one in which the viewer
asserts some degree of control over what transpires.
To create the materials for the piece, numerous individuals were asked to submit dreams
they had experienced. Submissions were made via first-person interviews, anonymous
emails, and via the official Facebook group. These dreams were analysed in order to find
common themes running throughout. The themes discovered in this way were used to generate
original examples of dream elements, which can be combined dynamically. This process is
designed to attempt to tap into a Jungian collective unconscious, and make the dream
experience more authentic for viewers.
The materials include HD video (shot in 1080p), audio, and HDR (high dynamic-range) photo
backgrounds. The installation is being programmed in Quartz Composer and Ableton Live.
The triptych widescreen display is being handled by a Matrox TripleHead2Go breakout box.

If you want to see some composite stills, go here, and scroll past the giant mouth: http://www.capseat.com/John/resume/newmedia.html


How did I end up with so much work? At least it's awesome. Go Capseat Go!