Video Workshops
Video Workshops are by appointment only. Please contact info@subliminalstate.org for details.
Click on the gemstone to view a calendar of upcoming events. Look for events called “video workshop” or “video shoot.”
At each stop along the Subliminal History of New York State tour, Carrie Dashow will host one video workshop with a group of 12 diverse members of the community selected by our liaison.
The workshop will begin with a remedial video workshop. This is followed by an hour-long synchronized unedited 12 camera video shoot where participants will walk around their town starting and leaving from a center point together. The footage shot will be processed through a artist-designed system called “the 13th screen” (explained below). It will be shown at the final event on two video screens, as a multichannel synchronized video installation to express subliminal visions of the town itself.
The 13th Screen
Subliminal history now has a tool. With the help of programmer Matt Raibert, we have fashioned a 16-channel video multiplexer (a surveillance camera grid) into a live video editing system. The system will be used at each location stop on the Subliminal History tour as a two-channel video installation made with the town (people and place) with 12 invited participants representing diverse views of the location. Please see documentation here (Palmyra) and here (Lily Dale)
Shot with 12 synchronized video cameras, the multiplexer chooses one view to project based on the shooter telling it by putting a hand over the lens. The audience viewer is given both the multi-channel gridded viewpoints and the chosen or 13th screen, to watch.
Images from a test of the “13th Screen” video workshop at Not an Alternative, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, April 2007.
“The 13th Screen” is a device specifically designed and used to gather subliminal information only possible through the interaction of multiple people in a particular space. As shooters unconsciously edit the 13th screen through their interactions with space and each other a rotating view point is culled to show a single view, that is unconsciously chosen by the people, the terrain, the place, the combination of elements out of our control. This viewpoint becomes a transient portrait created through this combination. “The 13th Screen” is funded through a New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artist grant.
Read more about the project in the Subliminal History of New York State section of this site or read about the singing workshop component of the Subliminal History tour.