Spooky Skype Interview

For the last in our series of Video Press Releases to promote the Nevada Museum of Art’s Art + Environment Conference at the end of September, the musem wanted to capture an interview with recording artist DJ Spooky, AKA Paul Miller. Miller will be performing with the Reno Philharmonic at the event on September 29th. Problem is that Miller lives in New York and wouldn’t be able to get to Reno before the event. The natural option was to use a video chat interview with Skype. However, that presented a challenge of how to capture and present a coast-to-coast skype call in an engaging way on video to suit the amazing visual presence of the Nevada Museum of Art. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjQiNJBCFeU&feature=channel_video_title[/youtube] Our idea was to use the same venue that Miller and the Reno Philharmonic will be appearing in, The Wayne and Miriam Prim Theater, to stage a larger-than-life interview via Skype between Miller, projected onto the giant screen, and Art + Environment Director Bill Fox on the couch. Using two cameras, the skype feed and DJ Spooky music we were able to create a much more personal and engaging video than we could have with just a picture-in-pictue skype feed. -Mike

About the Center for Art + Environment

The Center for Art + Environment (CA+E) is an internationally recognized research center that supports the practice, study and awareness of creative interactions between people and their natural, built, and virtual environments.

About DJ Spooky

Paul D. Miller is a musician, conceptual artist and writer based in New York City. He was the first editor-at-large of Artbyte: The Magazine of Digital Arts, and his articles have appeared in The Village Voice, Artforum, Rap Pages, Paper Magazine, The Source, and many other outlets. His artwork employs a wide array of digitally created music and multimedia to create a form of post-modern sculpture in the tradition of composers such as John Cage and Afrika Bambaata. He is author of The Book of Ice [Mark Batty Publisher (July 19, 2011)].]]>