klip//collective


Klip Collective, Super Luminous, 2004


SUPER LUMINOUS

Klip//collective is a group of video jockeys who cannot restrain themselves from glomming onto a space, decoding its form and its purposes, and engineering a metamorphosis. They amplify and play with, potentially, the unconscious social mythology of a room. What is occurring is difficult to label using the terms of the aging art paradigm. Perhaps a kind of Hyper-Runt emerges somewhere between Klip//collective and the tribal order of the site.

This innovative group shares some of the vestiges of their work on this website and are preparing a bionic takeover of the National Building, site of the analog component of the Hyper-Runt exhibit.

--Ebon Fisher


For Hyper-Runt, the klip//collective will install a site-specific piece utilizing the existing architecture of the National Products Building. Content will range from abstract to pure video produced by the klip//collective's principal artists, Ricardo Rivera, Pier Nicola D'Amico, Dominic Savini and Nicolas Dominguez.



Bio

Ricardo Rivera's mind-bending music visualizations and collaborations with prominent DJs/performers have earned an ever-growing reputation in Philadelphia and beyond. In the January 2004 issue of Wired, David Michael Grossman featured Mr. Rivera's progressive work:

 "Projector art has been stuck in the '80s far too long.  Now Ricardo Rivera is bringing the medium into the future with klip//effect, a technique that's part code, part graffiti. He first uses custom software to digitally map a room.  From this blueprint, he decides which surfaces to project his images on - say, a wall, a ceiling, and a cabinet.  Then he selects what videos to stream, often choosing pictures that juxtapose technology and nature.  Finally, Rivera's [software] app splits the digital video projector's single beam into as many as 10 separate streams of light.  The artist's clientele ranges from clubs to retail stores like Puma, and even The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. “

Mr. Rivera's recent work includes permanent installations for W Hotels, New York's Crobar, Puma, and others. He created video installations for the famed Winter Music Conference in Miami, Brooklyn-based band Mixel Pixel, New York's Superluminous art event, and has projected onto work by Philadelphia painter Anthony DeMelas.

For more information: http://klip.tv/