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Will Luers
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 22 พ.ค. 2007
Will Luers is a media artist, writer and educator living in Portland, Oregon.
Film of Sound
Film of Sound is a semiotic surface, a skin of image and text on the body of sound. Constructed out of collaborative, indeterminate and remix processes, layers and juxtapositions of disparate media hint at a narrative trajectory - a sleeping man, an evening in a hotel room, and a journey across vast and challenging spaces. But the incipient narrative constantly breaks down into disordered memories of violence and repression, undefined threats, splintered subjectivities, analog and digital glitches.
10 minute, single channel video
Artists: Roger Dean, Will Luers and Hazel Smith
an australLYSIS commission
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Electronic art video and interactive works generally prioritize image over sound, this is also the case in commercial culture at large. For this work, we chose a different approach, in keeping with the central focus of the commissioning ensemble, austraLYSIS. That focus is sound : musical, spoken, electroacoustic and environmental. In Film of Sound sound was chosen to be the initiator, sometimes even driver, of the text and visual processes at work in the piece. Three collaborators were involved, respectively with focus on the video composition (Luers), the text composition (Smith) and the sonic composition (Dean). In the first stage of creating the piece, a pair of sound compositions were made by Dean, and Luers and Smith began generating responses to them. After considerable exchange of materials, an overall plan for one imagistic narrative layer, to be constructed first in sound, was agreed. After the drafted sound layer was produced, all the ongoing text- and video- generation processes joined into an iterative amalgamation, interaction, and refinement sequence.
The result reveals at least two continuous narrative and process layers. There are ideas about the continuation of physical objects and processes - such as the life of the ocean - despite the termination of life. These ideas swirl with and against questions of language, the communicative powers of humans, and the resilience of human engagement even when resources and opportunities seemingly diminish.
Through the interweaving of text, sound and image -sometimes complementary, sometimes antithetical - the work explores a number of continua from the pre-verbal to the articulated, from the glimpse to the gaze, from noise to music. It also simultaneously projects both rapidly transforming affective intensities and sustained emotional states.
10 minute, single channel video
Artists: Roger Dean, Will Luers and Hazel Smith
an australLYSIS commission
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Electronic art video and interactive works generally prioritize image over sound, this is also the case in commercial culture at large. For this work, we chose a different approach, in keeping with the central focus of the commissioning ensemble, austraLYSIS. That focus is sound : musical, spoken, electroacoustic and environmental. In Film of Sound sound was chosen to be the initiator, sometimes even driver, of the text and visual processes at work in the piece. Three collaborators were involved, respectively with focus on the video composition (Luers), the text composition (Smith) and the sonic composition (Dean). In the first stage of creating the piece, a pair of sound compositions were made by Dean, and Luers and Smith began generating responses to them. After considerable exchange of materials, an overall plan for one imagistic narrative layer, to be constructed first in sound, was agreed. After the drafted sound layer was produced, all the ongoing text- and video- generation processes joined into an iterative amalgamation, interaction, and refinement sequence.
The result reveals at least two continuous narrative and process layers. There are ideas about the continuation of physical objects and processes - such as the life of the ocean - despite the termination of life. These ideas swirl with and against questions of language, the communicative powers of humans, and the resilience of human engagement even when resources and opportunities seemingly diminish.
Through the interweaving of text, sound and image -sometimes complementary, sometimes antithetical - the work explores a number of continua from the pre-verbal to the articulated, from the glimpse to the gaze, from noise to music. It also simultaneously projects both rapidly transforming affective intensities and sustained emotional states.
มุมมอง: 70
วีดีโอ
Hypnagogia (palindrome)
มุมมอง 37310 ปีที่แล้ว
by Will Luers (video) and Roger Dean (sound) 2013 | 6min Hypnagogia is a state between wakefulness and sleep, in which dream-like impressions may cross the mind. The video was constructed specifically for the live performance by austraLYSIS (an ensemble of trumpet, piano, and live electronics) at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music on November 30th , 2013. video by Will Luers will-luers.com/ sou...
Motions (video simulation of a web book)
มุมมอง 6710 ปีที่แล้ว
Motions takes human trafficking and contemporary slavery as its focus. Human trafficking is an accelerating form of crime and is a world-wide problem. It is one of the darker outcomes of globalization, the breakdown of the nation-state, and increasing ease of travel. Static and moving, variable and sequential, the piece presents programmed text, image and music fragments to evoke the subjective...
Fingerbend (video simulation of a web book)
มุมมอง 5210 ปีที่แล้ว
An insomniac writer moves to a small coastal town to investigate the work and disappearance of a cult web artist. Like the subject of his research, he can leave nothing outside the narrative: lists, blog entries, mobile photos, loops, and draft sketches of stories. This multimedia fiction, in which no single page is ever the same, explores the liminality of the "web book" as a space between abu...
Citizen Dwarf
มุมมอง 16412 ปีที่แล้ว
the iconography of a receding twentieth century. the relics of oil culture - big motor vehicals and shock and awe fireworks. set to "Citizen Dwarf" by the legendary Reagan's Polyp.
The Walking Man
มุมมอง 31814 ปีที่แล้ว
2009, 8:45 "Obstacles become playgrounds, playgrounds obstacles." An electronic voice comments on a pedestrian's comic and poetic encounters with the city. walking performance by Joel Sugerman written, shot and edited by Will Luers
Cannibals - sustainable art
มุมมอง 68114 ปีที่แล้ว
Pammela Springfield asks that all her gallery artists be a gas tank away from the door and show only work created in the past year. In this way the art at Cannibals is always local and fresh. Cannibals 518 Northwest 21st Avenue, Portland, OR
PDX Swift Watch
มุมมอง 18415 ปีที่แล้ว
Every September, at dusk, thousands of migrating swifts fly down the chimney of an elementary school.
mediartZ | experiential, participatory, electronic
มุมมอง 20315 ปีที่แล้ว
From October 2-31, a month-long celebration of media art at North Bank Artists Gallery in Vancouver, WA Mark Amerika Jeannette Altman Alan Bigelow Jim Bizzocchi Christopher Doulgeris Brian Evans Doug Gast Doug Jarvis Will Luers Reza Savafi
Arden live on drums
มุมมอง 14215 ปีที่แล้ว
Arden played at the Rock n' Roll Camp for Girl's winter showcase.
Richmond Eementary Japanese Immersion School
มุมมอง 35815 ปีที่แล้ว
Richmond Elementary Japanese Immersion School is an award-winning school in Portland, Oregon. It is also where my own kids spend most of their week. My five-year-old sings Japanese songs. My eight-year-old now reads and writes in the English alphabet, hirigana, katakana and is starting to learn kanji. We are really lucky. This is a video I made to promote our school.
Richmond Elementary Japanese Immersion School
มุมมอง 19K15 ปีที่แล้ว
Richmond Elementary Japanese Immersion School is an award-winning school in Portland, Oregon. It is also where my own kids spend most of their week. My five-year-old sings Japanese songs. My eight-year-old now reads and writes in the English alphabet, hirigana, katakana and is starting to learn kanji. We are really lucky. This is a video I made to promote our school.
Greg Hanson - collage artist
มุมมอง 8K15 ปีที่แล้ว
A portrait of collage artist Greg Hanson. His work can be found on Last Thursday, The Alberta Street Art Walk, in Portland,OR. by Will Luers www.taylorstreetstudio.com
City Garden Farms | Portland, OR
มุมมอง 11K15 ปีที่แล้ว
Dan Bravin cultivates and harvests a diverse group of sub-acre plots, lots and yards in and around the city to provide the Portland community with ultra-local and truly fresh picked vegetables. Live Urban - Eat Local www.citygardenfarms.com video by Will Luers Taylor Street Studio www.taylorstreetstudio.com
he is a superman and goodlooking
Thanks. I had not thought of garage sale media. Great!
Excellent video on Greg! Love his personality as much as his works of art! Thank you for sharing this with us!
Oh yeah. Portland 14 years ago vs antifa portland.
Very cool. You certainly have an imagination. I love it
Dear Greg are you still out there creating?just found you 2022.hope so
I was wondering the same thing.
Just graduated from yujin gakuen Japanese immersion school.
i need more of him
I saw this mini documentary in 2008 on Current TV in the UK, it inspired me to take up collage and I've been doing it ever since. I've been looking to watch it again since that first time and stumbled across it completely randomly. Brilliant surprise!
Good job, and great soul patch! 😉
2008...and here it is 2019 now. My fondest hope is that Mr Hanson is still creating his art. I absolutely love it. His creativity is truly inspiring!
AMY SENSEI My name is Zachary Diaz and I’m a 5th grader at Richmond in 2019. It’s so weird seeing these teachers looking so much younger!
Dang I want to go there to just learn Japanese and Kanji
Great stuff
Hey HI !!! Just Found Your Stuff And I LOVE Your Ideas!!!!
Ore ye ye o
awww
That’s where I go
Beautiful work !!
Wow this is so great.
I also collage and it's very therapeutic. Tx for sharing your work. Do more vids pls 😊
The tribute is actually for the ancestors that were brought from several parts of Africa and not for yemanja (mostly Nigeri)
love this!
was that some of Greg Hanson's work I saw there??? yea it was ☺
ここで働きたいよ！超可愛い〜
I think we all need Japanese elementary schools regardless of age ... ahh I was so jealous watching that lol
+I Heart Nihon Hehe, really, your jealous that children at your old school has a Japanese heart meaning a childhood knowledge of the language Japanese? I also wish I got taught Japanese as a little girl too.
+I Heart Nihon Hey, it's been 3 years why have you not reply me a question to answer?
I love your art! I really like the 3d nature...almost sculpture!! do you make your own shadow boxes? what kind of adhesives do you use? do you modpodge over them.... scissors or xacto?
1. Odudua came down to earth and told the yoruba people that Orula, the prophet was coming. Odudua was a white guy. 2. Orisha practice has survived and thrived in the New World by all that love and respect the Orishas 3. it's believed that EVERYONE, regardless of skin color or belief system, chooses a main Orisha, to guide their life, when their soul was in heaven (before birth) in front of Olodumare, Eshu and Orula. 4. the babalawo offers bitter kola nuts to the river in this video. Once the babalowo takes out the seed, the obi obata (bitter kola nuts) are consecrated. 5. The Orishas choose who they want to be in the Religion, and they chose who they want to initiate. Human beings do not chose. Because Orishas chose, you see men and women of all different skin colors as initiates. 6. In this video, I'm not sure exactly what the head babalowo is saying, but I'm guessing he's asking Oshun if She accepts the ebo (offering) the community has for Her, and is willing to bless them. Then the babalowo is casting the obi obata to get a yes/no from Oshun. Finally, Yeiye kari imbomoro ofi kereme oguwa meri kokuasi ago.
Very cool. I do the same thing! www.flickr.com/photos/angienaron
Oh my god. My older brother is in the video...
did he retain his Japanese skills?
+Catgirl1619 Did you see Ocelotl Chimalpahin's comment asking you about your bro's Japanese was like now, why didn't you answer her/him for a year now?
Kawayoporu oh no i didnt
Ocelotl Chimalpahin he still has em! he's in college right now taking japanese
***** Catgirl1619 lol I totally forgot about this video XD So he's taking japanese eh? Awesome, he has a leg up at least
3:48 I just got that homework!! LOL Now I know what they are talking about!!
Aidan...
+PDX Productions Hey, didn't you get my reply, it's been 3 years you haven't!?
Kawayoporu what do you want me to reply to?
+PDX Productions To the question from 3 years ago that I've been waiting forever, can you see it on view replies?
Kawayoporu I don’t see any reply other than the one you posted an hour ago, sorry
Ando sensi looks so young there
I would love the lyrics to oshun song...
I wish I went to a school like this.
+Ryan Spann Me too, I wish I had Japanese immersion too as a child, but I know in your country the US have them, but I don't know if Canada have them too.
Ryan Spann I went to this s school and it was awesome
+Tunes Me Really, how old you started learning Japanese? And how old you lasted learning Japanese?
+Stella Bielavitz Hey, are you really, Tunes Me, please reply to answer my 2 questions that you didn't answer for a year now, please answer my questions?
ok, dumb question of the week: how do I put a video into my favorites?
Just like the video 😅
Interested in your work, but your link goes to subtle fish.
Wow! Fantastic. Love. TFS.
I am Japanese. I'm glad to see this video. Thanks.
+Yudai Ogawa Hello, I have wished I had a Japanese immersion school when I was a little girl so that I'd be nearly fluent in Japanese as now, but it never happened and so would you like to be my Japanese friend?
+Yudai Ogawa Hi, have you not get my reply a long time ago, what happened to you not reply me?
@@Kawayoporu thanks.I am still alive lol.
I wish I went there :P
아이리스필 I do
hehe i still go here
+Paul Skiles4 Did you reply this in grade nine, so are you in highschool now?
I'm definitely putting my kids into an immersion school like this someday. It's such an awesome way for kids to literally become fluent in something other than English.
if anyone can plz write out rge songs , so I can learn and sing to osun too. modupe
I go to this school right now! I am in 4th grade right now, but this was made when I was in PreK! I am the girl with the pink shirt at 0:31! The other blonde girl is also a girl that I know. She is in the other class.
+Nanako Shindo-Chu Hi, I have a question, do you speak Japanese like a native speaker now and can you understand anime characters like Doraemon, Sazae-san and other anime shows in Japanese?
I go there though this is as made a while a go
Mojuba Oloye Aikulola
Really cool
What a great video. Really enjoyed this. His collages and mine are quite similar in subject matter. It was also ironic that he found that early 1900's medical book because I have the same one which I found at a book sale for a few dollars. Good work!
NIICE WORK!! Keep it green:)
Forgive my ignorance but I often see "ashe" next to Oshun's name and the other orisha. What does it mean?
Awesome Vid Greg...! ;-)
i went to this school, and while i enjoyed most of it, I'm pretty sure that most of the principals got fired for being very rude to the children. The first pricipal i remeber was a racist, and was way to strict to the Japanese and african american kids. And throughout my years there, they let a horrible bully stay, even when he tried to rape another student.
+Lego Sumo Really, is the principle who was racist is a African-American who hates Japanese as I heard sometimes African-American people don't like European-American people I once seen a news video? Oh my gosh, a principle try to rape a student, was it a boy or a girl and did the student didn't get raped when the teachers came on time saving her from engaging in a rape attack? And what you mean another student, did he almost raped two students you meant, so are their private parts never got invaded, because I hope their private parts are safe so they will never get a traumatized nightmare feeling dirty life, I hope they are like my case never ever got raped?