PACMAN OUROBOROS
Looped video projection
2010

‘Video games are the first stage in a plan for machines to help the human race, the only plan that offers a future for intelligence. For the moment, the inseparable philosophy of our time is contained in the Pac-Man…Perhaps because he is the most perfect graphic metaphor of man’s fate, he puts into true perspective the balance of power between the individual and the environment. And he tells us soberly that though there may be honor in carrying out the greatest number of victorious attacks, it always comes a cropper.’ Chris Marker, Sans Soleil

Truncated, repetitive, coin-operated nihilism. We were told that play would desensitise, depoliticise and disconnect us, and now games are presented by the museum as the latest historical and contemporary cultural artefacts. The time has come for arts institutions to intervene; playtime is over.

JAYGO BLOOMS solo show – ARCADE
Public viewing from October 15 – November 14 2010

Modernism, Maths and High Art.
Dedicated to Calder, Cage and Cunningham
Directed and produced by Default FX.
Music by HAMMERSCHMIDT

DEFAULT FX – Shortlisted for a new music short award by the BBC Electric Proms.
Pre treatment visualisation by Default FX
Music by Metronomy – On Dancefloors
And you can view the treatment HERE

Video Home Training.
One from the archive -
An Atari mod bought to you by JAYGO BLOOM
Recontextualising the sounds of Mongolian Tibetan Chants through the playing of popular
atari game classic ELEKTRA GLIDE.

One of the Audio Visual Mixes created by participants on the FUTURESHOCK project facilitated by DEFAULT FX for YEASTCULTURE, working with VJ SOFTWARE Resolume and showcased at The British Film Institute. Southbank.

One of the Audio Visual Mixes created by participants on the FUTURESHOCK project facilitated by DEFAULT FX for YEASTCULTURE, working with VJ SOFTWARE Resolume and showcased at The British Film Institute. Southbank.

Video promo for BOX CODAX
Produced and directed by DEFAULT FX

Everything I like to see in digital tech messy play.
Processing by ERQIUDAO

DOMINO Records superstar Lightspeed Champion drops by the DEFAULTFX studios and performs a few tracks from his latest album.

A stereoscopic Realtime Performance based on Kafka´s “The Trial”
by 1n0ut (Robert Praxmarer, Reinhold Bidner).
Live performance incorporating digital processing examining what steers mankind?
what goes? what lies? what is the logic of the absurd and what the illogicality of reality?
Performed for Ars Electronica FUTURELAB

Video by DEFAULTFX for Berlin based YO MAMA and her delicious electro synths.
With clothes by London designers FANNY and JESS

The art of Re Skinning
Re shape, Re brand and Re Create!
Find more work from Niek Pulles HERE

A Super Wide remix of the music video Cant Stop Feeling for Franz Ferdinand by Default FX.

Default FX Providing visuals for DEATHDISCO
Supporting Jokers of the Scene and Brodinski
For video mix downloads contact me at myspace
Music by Shadow Dancer

Consumption and commercialization in New Age philosophies. The spirit of Mondrian, Georgia O’Keeffe in New Mexico. Psychedelic low-tech video. Maya Deren. Shana Moulton draws from it all. Here in The Whispering Pines, Cynthia, a bored, hypochondriac housewife persistently seeks salvation in the household consumer world; inevitably, it eludes her.

Ryans work makes me feel mostly engrossed, interested, happy, multidimensional, nauseous and self questioning. Nonetheless, I can’t stop watching – Fact.
In his latest work I-BE AREA, 2007, Trecartin weaves together several unruly stories with fast-moving, fast-talking characters that deal with such themes as cloning, adoption, self-mediation, life-style options, virtual identities and larger questions of an existential nature.

The logic that twirls the fiendishly tortuous narrative of Ryan Trecartin’s second feature-length video, I-BE AREA (2007), is grounded in a powerful understanding of our new millennial world as composed of manifold realities that are created, copied, or canceled at the will of life’s advanced players. The guiding drama of the video is how the ensemble cast of shifting, splintered identities exploits, submits to, or breaks free of the existential frictions caused by inhabiting multiple realities at once—through different public personas, online avatars, the ongoing lives of cloned versions of yourself (or, if you happen to be a clone, any new identities you download for yourself), the erasures of previous identities that have been overwritten, or the old standby of children serving as vessels for anything you’ve ever wanted to be but aren’t. An “Area” functions as a coalescence of a character’s accumulated realities, the turf to which the character is symbiotically and metaphysically bonded. The course of the film is a complete unraveling of I-Be’s Area, which is to say of itself.

Tim Brown (Colonel Blimp) & Christopher Hewitt (Knucklehead) team up for the the new release from Hecq Vs Exillion, titled Spheres Of Fury. Stunningly shot using the latest Canon D7

Superwide visuals to accompany the Franz Ferdinand 2009 ‘Tonight’ World Tour.
Created by Default FX

New Visuals created by Default FX exclusively for the Franz Ferdinand Japan 2009 Tour. Premiered at the Brixton Academy, London. October 2009.

A Default Halloween Freaky preview of the set I will be playing for Jon Berry ( of Kompakt fame ) to accompany his new label Fright Records. Performing live @ Brixton Academy 24 October 2009.
Music by Gatekeeper