Extra date added due to popular demand!

This is a workshop for digital artists, designers, VJ's, painters, and anyone interested in video mapping using the “Painting with Light” software, which allows you to easily 'paint' 3D objects with light using a computer and video projector. Learn the basics of how to get started, setting up a projector, painting with moving video, and the software’s very latest features. An ideal course for anyone wanting to explore a new medium and an artistic approach to video mapping. Please bring your own laptop/projector if possible or share one of several projectors that will be supplied. Suitable for all levels.

Costs: £35
Days: 1 Saturday
Times: 11:30am – 5:30pm
Date: 22nd March 2015
Room: Green
Maximum: 12

Alex May is an artist working with video projection, projection mapping, software programming, interaction, performance, and robotics to explore the boundaries between human perception and digital technologies. Painting With Light is one of several software tools created by Alex to facilitate his art practice, each written from scratch to explore different aspects of digital creativity and to make these (often complex) processes available to a wider audience. He has performed art at Tate Modern and Watermans, and exhibited internationally including at the V&A, Science Museum, Bletchley Park, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Caracas, the Science Gallery in Dublin, and the Grande Halle de la Villette in Paris. Alex is a Visiting Research Fellow: Artist in Residence in the Department of Computer Science of University of Hertfordshire and a sessional lecturer on the Masters in Digital Media Arts at The University of Brighton. http://www.alexmayarts.co.uk