Media, Events, Experiments
Events
Steve Madden’s Tokyo fashion show.
Oct 5th
Hfour collaborated with fashion show producer 6inch to provide visual content at the first Steve Madden Fashion show in Japan. Titled ‘Love and Peace Parade’ to match the brand’s direction for the upcoming year, the show included dogs, cheerleaders, 3 motorcycles, several cars, 3 hummers and a truck with a dancing pole.
Update: Nov. 15th 2008. The full video is now online.
Live video performance excerpt.
Aug 28th
An excerpt from a live video performance piece by Hfour. Originally performed at Ultra’s grand opening event, June 2008.
Music: Micah Lukasewich’s remix of Tommib by Squarepusher – Oldschoolin’ Booty.
Software: Modul8
Some loops in this clip were provided by: Lightryhthmvisuals and AnalogRecycling.
Wet Paint Redux
Aug 28th
Hfour did a live painting show at Ever on the 29th of May 2008. Musical accompaniment by Esie and a traditional flute player.
Here is the write-up from the flyer:
Hfour explores the transience and ephemerality of life using paint as a metaphor. By intentionally repurposing traditional artists’ materials, he expresses a paradigm shift which suggests the awareness of the impermanent nature of contemporary society (disposable). Hfour channels primal expressions incorporated with reactive gestures to perform a painting without termination.
A collaborative performance with Flyflyfly reinforces the convergence of technology and human instinct; the postmodern city and the condition of society.
Two pieces were performed, both canvases were destroyed after the show.
Also included are photographs from the first live painting show performed in 2002 in Canada.
Animated Blacklist Logos
Aug 23rd
Produced for the August 2008 BlackList event at Crystal Lounge. Original Crest courtesy of Euroculture & Antique 505 stock imagery book.
Animated BlackList logos from Stuart Ward on Vimeo.
Exivision
Aug 23rd
A friend of mine emailed me to express his wish to attend my Art show and misspelled the word exhibition as exivision. I was impressed with his new word and named the show after it. The longer title was “Thunder Dragons and Flying Tigers: Visions of Bhutan.
Exivision toured through three exhibition spaces, two in Tokyo (2006 and 2007) and one in Kyoto (2007).
P1X3L5
Aug 22nd
Digital photographs from outward journeys, Digital prints from inward journeys.
December 10th-20th 2005, at Art Cocktail in Nakatsu, Osaka, Japan.
Guy Perryman
Aug 22nd
Hfour produced themed video content for Guy Perryman’s Autumn 2007 event at Mado Lounge, a club on the 52nd floor of the Roppongi Hills tower.
Volvo
Aug 22nd
Hfour collaborated with FlyFlyFly to project on a car for a Volvo sponsored event organized by Chikyuya.