Release Date: 2025
Country: Mexico
Workshop: 5 hr
Performance: 1 hr
Colour, Stereo
Ratio: 1.33:1 x 3
Format: 3 x 16mm
A practical workshop lead by Steven McInerney at Arte Abierto in Mexico City September 6, 2025. Part of FISURA’s academic programme, this workshop proposes an exploration of the connections between light and sound through 16mm film and optical feedback processes. Working across three film projectors, participants creates intermittent loops by scratching, drawing, and splicing individual frames onto an opaque black base.
As these loops were projected, they triggered analog synthesizers from the projector's light source, functioning as a multichannel audiovisual instrument that combines image and sound in real time. The various combinations of loops generated visual and sonic patterns that formed a collective composition.
CREDITS
Workshop by Steven McInerney
Performance by Steven McInerney, Jael Jacobo, Ezekiel Reyes
Photodiode eurorack module designed by Tom Richards
Curated by Carlos Cruz & Estefania Dias
Commissioned by Arte Abierto
EXHIBITIONS
FISURA Festival Internacional de Cine y Video Experimental. Arte Abierto. Mexico City. September 6, 2025