Please have a look at my Flickr photoset regarding my trip to Hong Kong in Spring 2007.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8955721@N04/sets/72157600364739830/

As promised, here you can find the PDF of my presentation sheets. The talk was held on April 25th 2007 at Knowles Building, Hong Kong University.

Presentation sheets

I will have a trip to southern China to continue the work on my timeslots series.

Thanks to Dr. Desmond Hui from Hong Kong University and Heiner Schilling, I will be able to stay at the Graduate House of HKU.

From April 25th to June 30th, there will be an exhibition of the existing and the additional work created on-site.

Ich wurde für den Preis der diesjährigen art.fair nominiert.

Der Gesellschafter art.award forderte junge Künstler auf, sich mit der Fragestellung: »In was für einer Gesellschaft wollen wir leben?« auseinanderzusetzen und ihre Assoziationen in einem Kunstwerk wiederzugeben. Die Gewinner werden zum einen durch eine Jury und zum anderen über eine Publikumsabstimmung ermittelt. Die Stimmabgabe ist auch online möglich.

"timeslots"
Chronofotografien von Ludwig Zeller

Vernissage: Donnerstag, den 8. Juni ab 19 Uhr
Kunstraum 22, Körnerstraße 22, 50823 Köln

Ausstellungsdauer:
8. Juni bis 10. August 2006

Öffnungszeiten auf Anfrage unter
0221 / 58919407 oder 0176 / 24142772

http://www.kunstraum22.de

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A tool for chronophotography through video-postprocessing

"timeslots" is a program that allows you to use normal video cameras (DV, HDV, anything) to be used as a scanning device. By using just a narrow slit out of the captured video, the working principle is comparable to normal desktop scanners, but with the benefit of better optics, portability and flexibility for experimental purposes.

My first use of this software was the creation of surrealistic imagery for the "timeslots" exhibition starting in June 2006 in Cologne. More documentation about this project will be available soon.

Basically, this software can be used comparable to the classic analog slitcam photography that is invoked for panoramas. There, the chemical film is transported against the rotating camera, so that the environment is "written down" as a panorama. But if you keep the camera still, while the film is moving, you get the changes of time within your slit projected in your resulting image. This is also the base of many other works by KHM artists like Sascha Blume or Irena Paskali, who have used a digital panorama camera by Spheron VR.

Since you can set the width of the slit as you like, you can fine-tune it to reproduce objects, that are moving through the slits, with little distortion while the background gets repeated and thus wiped away - because it doesn't change fast, normally. The look of the resulting image is very dependent of your footage and your processing settings as well. After some experimentation it gets easier to anticipate the results. Rapid-prototypes taken with little digital cameras can help to find good pictures.

My intention in writing this software was to be able to use every motion camera technology from simple cellphone cameras to high-definition video to broaden the use of this expterimental technique and to be independent of expensive equipment like the Spheron camera.

Furthermore, since it is a commandline program, it can be used efficiently through the powerful scripting techniques of shells like the bash (which is standard for most modern NIXes). Another design goal was to maximize processing performance which is useful for quickly adjusting parameters or generating motion imagery. The second is an application, which was not possible with still imagery approaches like the Spheron. The next release of timeslots will be dedicated to this application.

Comparable but different approaches:
"Querläufer" by Christian Keßler
"Streak Photography"
"Improvised Scanning Digital Camera" by Andrew Davidhazy
"Scanner Umbau" by Markus Keinath

Read more to download and use the timeslots. Comments are welcome.

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Einladung zur improvisierten Audioperformance von Jens Grünhagen, Moritz Grund,
Paul Nickel, Arne Münch und Ludwig Zeller.

Software, Synthies und Mikros.

Donnerstag, 11.5 ab 19h, Flur vor dem Neubau-Studio.

Über das semiotisch-konzeptionelle Referenzsystem
und das „Schamanische“ in der Kunst

Schriftliche Ausarbeitung zur Belegung der Teilnahme am Basisseminar
Spiel, Dogma, Phantasie von Prof. Dr. Hans Ulrich Reck, WS04/05.

Semiotisch_Schamanisch.pdf (Hausarbeit, 0,5MB)