lightpirate is an art duo working in time based media
Evelyn Delgado
Evelyn is an interdisciplinary artist working with various forms of animation styles including shadow puppets, hand drawn frame by frame animation and stop motion. She combines choreography with motion capture and rotoscoping to create punk goth vignettes that reference storybook style.
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Jeff Read / brcn / triturador
Jeff works with digital systems, loves exploration and the natural systems found in the remaining wilds. This has influenced his compositions to focus on their own passage of time like an unfolding path, searching for surprise around the bend. Documenting the obstacles that we face, modulating the speed which we move through life. He works in digital environments, as well as with guitars and electronics he modifies and builds himself. Jeff is also interested in musical historical narratives and explores this in his work through varied compositional and sonic strategies that hopefully combine to novel effect.
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Work:
Lullabies for robotic children
Lullabies for Robotic Children are 4 chapters in the life of a young being. Bombarded by media, children speak the language of robots whose experiences and memories have been pre-programmed by filters, edits, and retouches: predetermined by forgotten histories. Reprogramming might be possible, but if it not, robotic children grow into robotic adults.
Norther Lights: Projection Mapping Installation presented by MAPPERZ
As part of ChinookBlast 2024 Lightpirate joined Mapperz and other projection artists in projecting 20 second animations in front of the Jack Singer Concert Hall.
Illustrations by Vanja Kragulj
Blackfoot Animation Project presented by CAOS
In 2020, CAOS began a two-phase Blackfoot Animation Project that combine the creative efforts of the Grade 9 students and a selection of animation artists.
Sponsored by the Government of Canada’s Canada Learning Bond program this phase was extended to members of the community.
Learn more about this program here
Nothern Reflections Augmented Reality Art Walk
In 2020, Calgary Neighbourhoods Inglewood and the east village pair artists, musicians and animators to animate the windows culminating in a winter art walk.
Learn more about this program here
Homestead, 2019
Homestead is about the nervous feeling of isolation both in our homes and in our heads. Exploring the fear and anxiety of intrusion
This was commissioned by @prairie_av_art for their instagram account. The account is cataloging and promoting prairie based and experimental audi/visual performance and single channel artists working the in the age of covid-19
Evelyn loves the look of simple black and white cross-hatched drawings and bringing them to life through hand drawn animation, we are currently exploring taking these same drawings and making them as 3D sets that include trippy visuals. Hoping that when restrictions are lifted the live experience will be a combination of 3D set design manipulated in real time and mixed ith live animations creating a children’s story time feel.
Thank you @prarie_av_art for this amazing opportunity.
Wreck City: Phantom Wing, 2013 Calgary
Jeff and Evelyn, along with a group of science centre coworkers and friends created an immersive space where we reimaged a school from our memories, all of a sudden returning to the place of your childhood the walls seemed smaller, caving in. Inside we had space for hangouts, and a chalkboard, the chalkboard was attached to contact mics sending sound through the space as people wrote.
Freakshow: Forbidden Spectacle, 2011
A combination of video footage and shadow puppetry evelyn and jeff create a world where an excited bunny rabbit travels through the forest meeting all sorts in interesting creatures. Created as a site specific work for Swallow-a-bicycle’s Freak Show.
Soundasaurus: Optic Nerve, 2010
For Optic nerve we were influenced by science videos of the 80s. We wanted to recreate a visual environment using only lofi materials. With a small tub of water and different color explosions mediated through a computer video program, all effects were made live on stage with simple eye droppers filled with dyes, and tables to recreate explosions. The live music created ripples in the visuals so that both audio and visuals were connected.
High Performance Rodeo Freakshow 2009: Mermaids
Evelyn choreographed a piece where three mermaids danced on skateboards. Jeff composed a piece that sounded like mermaids singing underwater, the lights pulsated to the beat.
Ignite! Festival For Emerging Artists, 2009 pandas 8:48
For Ignite festival, Evelyn choreographed a dance inspired by artificial love. Dancers moved on stage as awkward cartoon characters unable to “connect”. Jeff played an electroacoustic piece live on stage. Evelyn drew an animated sequence which played in the background.
Performance :
Winterruption:
Lightpirate will be doing Live Visuals for Matthew Cardinal as part of Winterruption
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Lust for Dust:
LightPirate created kinetic light shows mixing video, animations, moire patterns and liquids. Resulting in an all encompassing psychedelic visual expression of music, nature and the human experience.
SYNC Sound and Image Conference:
Performance – Live Visuals – November 2024 Calgary AB
This two-hour performance featured live liquid light and lo-fi animation, creating an immersive visual experience alongside two electronic music performers. The piece explored the interplay between analog and digital aesthetics, using hand-crafted visuals to complement and respond to the evolving soundscapes.
These performances where part of SYNC sound and Image Conference, put on by Ossil8 collective.
w/Idlefon (Hesam Ohadi), a computer musician and sound artist based in Tehran, Iran. His music is mainly associated with the broad spectrum of IDM, Ambient, and Glitch styles. Idlefon tends to make music which is relevant and in harmony with the urban life in his hometown of Tehran.
AI HALLUCINATIONS at Beakerhead 2024
Performance – AI visuals – August 2024 Calgary AB
360-degree kaleidoscope of sound, light and colour transforming in TELUS Spark’s Infinity Dome theatre.
This one-of-a-kind Dome Infinity experience, took audiences on a joy-ride through the future with immersive audio and visual techniques – all powered through AI. This is a first of its kind in Canada, and all produced by the Jeff for TELUS Spark.
TELUS Spark presents Beakerhead, proudly funded in part by Government of Alberta, Government of Canada, Travel Alberta, City of Calgary, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Calgary Foundation, Amazon Web Services, and Dairy Farmers of Canada. Hack the House, a Beakerhead program, is proudly sponsored by Imperial
Tales of a robot girl – Electronicas: Latinas Thriving in Media Arts Live Animation – April 2024 Calgary AB
This live animation performance tells the story of a young child navigating a world saturated with media and robotic language. As children interact with their surroundings, they adopt the pre-programmed language of filters, edits, and retouches. For an immigrant child, reprogramming and assimilation become possible only by identifying and prioritizing what needs to be reprogrammed. The performance combines traditional liquid light show elements, frame-by-frame animation, and live motion capture, reimagining visual imagery through the lens of traditional Costa Rican motifs.
Wonderbriefs – Festival of Animated Objects Crankie Puppet Show – March 2024
Through the generous support of the Canadian Association of Mask and Puppetry, this crankie puppet show brought to life a psychedelic nighttime bike ride. Audience members played an active role in the performance, operating the character while the crankie mechanism was manually controlled, creating an intimate and immersive storytelling experience.