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I finnaly got my LANBOXES [1 LCX + 1 LCM] and just finnalized my two first projects using them. And I must say that it was amazingly simple and fast and effecdtive to use them. It is the first time I am dealing with DMX, and even so, for both projects - one using the LCX, the other using LCM - I could set it up and run in 10 or 15 min. I was amazed. thankx Focco, Matthijs and all the team behind it. You've done a really good job. The projects are part of my Solo exhibition at Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Oporto, Portugal [opened last Friday - with great success :-) ]. I'm a visual artist and all my projects for this exhibition all the projects were developed around Light, Colour, Space and Time. Here's a description of my experience with the two pieces in which I use the LAN-Bs: GLOW WOW. It is essecially a light fountain, installed in a patio, outside the museum. I'm ussing a system of pulverized water to produce a henispheric cloud of about 2,5 mt ø On its base there are 6 RGB projectors [Pulsar ColorScape], alll synced and acting as one - I put a half bowled white plastic cup on top + a diffuser filter on the projectors. So this really behaves like on single light source bellow the Cloud. The idea was to create a colour composition. On the timeline, not on the plane or in a space. The colour play is then made with the help of memory, because we don't see colours side by side, but only succeding in time, as they apear in the Cloud. I used the LCX to play a about 80 different cuelist in sequence. the "composition" is about 30 mins, and then loops back to Cuelist 1. Actually, after 30 min its very hard for people to notice the repetition. So the piece looks really alive, as if colour combinations, rythms, crosfades, pauses, accelerations, flashs, black outs.. etc... never repeats. It took me dozens and dozens of hours preparing and executing the program. I started by collecting small bits of imagesthat looked intersting, in terms of colour /palletes/combinations. Then extract RGB values from the pixels and pasted them in lists in spreadsheets. About 80 different colour matrixes. In LCEdit, I built my Stage Setup (preatty simple) and wrote a very simple cuelist > just steps,playing a scene for 0.10s, no fading, 3 chanels for RGB values. I imported the cuelist into excel and pasted the RGB values in my Colour-Lists. Saved all new lists with different ClueList numbers [1 to 80 ] and imported them into LCEdit [using Backup & Restore]. That moment I had 80 cuelists, with different RGB values to play on my RGB projectors. I did all this before having the LANBOX, and just using the LCEdit and the TCP/IP LanB. As soon as I got the LCX I connected to the one Pulsar and start programming on the LANBOX. As the cuelists were all withe same action, with same duration, it all looked mechanical. And not all the color combination looked right (far from it). So the job was then to "compose" using the colours I had (as RGB values). It was a long hardous job, although exciting and very amuzing. The last week, I had the Cloud ready and could make the final programming on site (at night, outsite, with really nice weather ;-) eh, eh, eh, this is Portugal...) I could then make final adjustments to the lightshow. In the end I sequenced all cuelists, by writting a last cuestep on everylist, telling it to go to Step 1 of next list. Saved everything and the LCX, disconected my G4 Titanium, run the LAN-B and there it was the Colour playing cloud. DAZED & CONFUSED This pieces uses a 200sq mts room, all white (walls, floor + ceiling) with a big window (3mts high 8 mts long). Visitors can look at the piece through the window, standing ouside (well, sinside the museum, but outside the room) or they get in the room. The room is permantly filled with thick withe fog . produced by 2 Rosco Fog Machines (running on their timers, not on dmx). On the four top corners there are 1500W Xenon strobe-lights (by DTS), all synced and acting as one. The LCM controls the strobes. For this I just made one cuelist, with "random" strobe effects, playing with different speeds and intensities. A quite basic usage for the amaizing possibilities of the LANBOX. But I must say that it does the job perfectly. And the end result is amazing. Quite strong. People have great fun and excitement. Visitors really "get lost" in the room - depth of field is about 3 mts. All looking white. When itb is crowded, poeple meet with other people, with amazing expressions. When the strobes come in and strike the smoke, all the room gets filled with pulsating white light, and one starts to see intense patterns, colours; sapce becomes abstract, infinite, the other people look sort of artificial, mechanical, video-like. It is quite intense. Now that I had my hands on this BlackBoxes, I know I've expanded possibilities ;-) anyway, If I may tell you (Focco and Matthijs), from this first experiences , for the bad and the good, there is a long way to go for the LAN-Bs. João Paulo Feliciano www.houselab.net/jpfeliciano
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