Interactive hip-hop video to premiere at Wintec
Hip-hop group NDD wrote and recorded a song in two weeks for their interactive music video as part of NZ music month.
Hamilton hip-hop artist Nukz will premiere his latest music video as part of NZ Music Month at the BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer) evening at Wintec tonight.
The event, which is being hosted by Hamilton art collective Draw inc, is part of a series of one-night-exhibitions hosting artists and their projectors.
The night which is described as “an evening devoted to film, animation, net and video art and any projection based artworks,” invites artists to bring along projectors to show their work.
Tonight’s evening is being run in collaboration with BIT studios in Cardiff, UK, with previous events being held in cities such as Tokyo, Edinburgh and Munich.
The video was made by Wintec tutors Joe Citizen and Jason Long as part of the Survey Hamilton Project, which will be shown at the Waikato Museum on August 22.
Citizen said he wanted to do something for New Zealand Music Month, and the opportunity came up to work with Aaron Nuku, a second year student at Wintec.
The video was shot using a special 360 degree view camera. Citizen said it is part of a series he is creating to showcase the creative practices around Hamilton using 360 degree video which you can scroll around in much like Google Earth.
“In the final project you will be able to click on links inside these images and jump from scene to scene.
“So it’s more like a game than it is like watching a film,” he said.
“People get to choose how they interact with something, so it’s really about that. They are part of the art.”
Nuku, who goes by the stage name Nukz, was excited at the prospect of the unique collaboration.
“It was quite a cool vibe. When I first heard about it I thought, aw yeah cool and I was trying to think of stuff we could do for it.”
While he had previous material recorded he decided to write a whole new song and within two weeks they had H-Town Vibe.
They shot the video at the Fairfield skate park near where Nuku’s wife grew up and where he lived for a period.
Nuku said the song was“basically about the form of arts in Hamilton and what I see Hamilton is about for me”.
The BYOB evening is running from 6-8pm at the shared space in Wintec’s R Block, 106 Collingwood Street.
