pixelpusher (evan.raskob) is a live video performance artist, or "pixelist." After a few years of pixel-pushing across New York City, he now plies his trade on the mean streets of London. pixelpusher generates video out of a controlled chaos of photographic images, simple shapes, animations, sounds, and live video feeds. All software is homemade, all imagery are created live; things may go wrong in beautiful ways, and no performance is ever the same.


Guest of Cindy Sherman movie out

by pixelpusher on Tuesday 6 May 2008
[Blog]

A few years ago, my alter-ego did some work on this film while he was a semi-starving graduate student living in NYC. Paul H-O took me under his wing and showed me a world of art Tribeca lofts, Manhattan Special soda, art celebrities, how to sit and shoot the shit about art and sound like I knew what I was talking about, and most importantly, how to get properly thrown out of a gallery. We did some websites, blogs, test animations, and talked art, abused interns, and it was a generally a good time.

Now the result of all that, culminating in a few years of monk-like dedication by Paul and Tom Donahue, has produced a feature film for the Sundance Channel, currently screening at the Tribeca Film Festival. Rising to the occasion, Paul has an interview out on Salon.com.

Personally, I haven’t seen the (finished) film but what I’d seen before was compelling stuff. Certainly worth a look if you’re in New York City, and hopefully we’ll see it on Sundance soon enough.

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offset circles take two

by pixelpusher on Sunday 27 April 2008
[Software, Blog]

offset circles take two image
Originally uploaded by da mad pixelist on flkr

I’ve been playing with the offsetcircles patch from before, and came up with a whole bunch of nice results. Taking a page from Claude, I made the drawing recursive (hmm… makes me want to use Scheme…) and rendered out these two short videos. These are fun experiments in basic, rotary motion. Its really amazing what fun you can have with simple math, rotations, and some blending.

There’s also this one.

Here’s the actual sketch plus code (the last version, anyway):

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Area10 Media Lab Gig

by pixelpusher on Sunday 13 April 2008
[images, Blog]

the beardos

Originally uploaded by yaxu


Yaxu (Alex McLean of http://lurk.org) captured this great shot from Area 10 Medialab launch gig this weekend. I have a nice hi-res video of the event, plus some of the other performances, which I’ll upload soon. I also have some great audio and video (audio straight from the soundboard, really clean and clear as a mountain spring) from the last Immersion that I’ve been meaning to post. My computer had a Quicktime meltdown, but is back in fine working shape again and ready to spend hours rendering quality video once more.

UPDATE: Oli (yesyesnono.com) has some more photos

Some video and more can be found here

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Sine-Line visual experiments

by pixelpusher on Tuesday 1 April 2008
[Blog]

sine line sketch 01

Some works-in-progress I’ve been experimenting with - simple, colorful audio streams filtered according to frequency, sometimes rendered as 3D geometric shapes. I’ll be performing this with Rob A. and Jag at the Minesweeper gig coming up.

Read on for more images

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beardos at Area10 MediaLab

by pixelpusher on Sunday 20 April 2008
[images, video, Visuals]

Beardos at Area10 Medialab img 1

The Beardos at Re:Boot at Peckham’s Area10 Medialab launch party. Read on for images and video and more

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Area10 Media Lab Gig

by pixelpusher on Sunday 13 April 2008
[images, Blog]

the beardos

Originally uploaded by yaxu


Yaxu (Alex McLean of http://lurk.org) captured this great shot from Area 10 Medialab launch gig this weekend. I have a nice hi-res video of the event, plus some of the other performances, which I’ll upload soon. I also have some great audio and video (audio straight from the soundboard, really clean and clear as a mountain spring) from the last Immersion that I’ve been meaning to post. My computer had a Quicktime meltdown, but is back in fine working shape again and ready to spend hours rendering quality video once more.

UPDATE: Oli (yesyesnono.com) has some more photos

Some video and more can be found here

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Immersion 7 Feb 2008 Wrap-up

by pixelpusher on Wednesday 13 February 2008
[images, video, Visuals]

My first thought after (and during) this past Immersion at The Flea Pit, London - Where did all you people come from?! People were queued up in the hallway leading to the performance wing of The Pit for almost the entire night. It got so crowded that I had to stop videoing the event, people were in the way of my camera. We had to trust our laptop screen in the back while doing visuals because we couldn’t see past the crowd to the screens!

Of course, this is a good thing. Thanks to everyone who showed up! Your enthusiasm and energy makes these (free) events worthwhile.

Immersion 7 Feb 2008 Set 1a
PixelPusher Set 1 with Gabrial Da Piaz (Quicktime divx, 19MB)

Read on for videos and images and more

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video - Immersion 6 Dec 2007 Set 2 with 0 > 1

by pixelpusher on Monday 10 December 2007
[images, video, Visuals, Past Performances, Performances]

Energetic and and intense set from PixelPusher (visuals) and 0 > 1 (sound). Dang it, there was such good bass in the room when I recorded this track, but my camera microphone didn’t pick up any of it. To get the full experience, get out a large metallic drum and give it a good whack whenever you see the visuals in the background flicker (they were working off the bass volume). I might have 0 > 1 re-do this track if/when we decide to put out an Immersion DVD.

PixelPusher and 0 > 1 2007-12-6 Immersion 1
Quicktime dvx ~189MB

more pics:

PixelPusher and Gareth Mitchell 2007-12-6 Immersion 2
PixelPusher and Gareth Mitchell 2007-12-6 Immersion 3
PixelPusher and Gareth Mitchell 2007-12-6 Immersion 4

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