Machinima Video Productions by Jeff Bush
In January 2006 Beta Technologies was commissioned by the Xerox Corporation™ to create an introduction to the Second Life™ platform for a corporate leadership meeting. Drawing on years of experience in video production, Jeff produced the video shown on the “channel” below called “Introduction to Second Life™ by Xerox™ CTO Sophie Vanderbroek”.
It was a huge success, and it’s led to the creation of other Beta Technologies videos shown below. The production team includes Mike Sudyn, editor, of Flying Dreams, and Walter Koehli, file tech, of Trackwise.
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Beta Technologies Video Channel on Vimeo
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Videodance by Jeff Bush
In 1973 Jeff received a position at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, part of the City University of New York, teaching media education as part of a special project called the Thematic Studies Program (TSP). This project gained its inspiration from the educational concepts being promulgated by Dr. John Culkin (who himself was associated with Marshall McLuhan and his significant media/culture contributions) at the Center for Understanding Media, later to be associated with The New School. Jeff’s specific task was to assist interested students in using newly available portable video equipment to enable them to find means of expression beyond the “pen and paper” medium of traditional eduction.
One of the projects he immediately became involved in with a number of students was the use of the video with modern dance. His work there, in some of the very first experiments with video and dance, led to significant work now archived at the Dance Collection of the Lincoln Center Library, numerous projects with the hotbed of “downtown” modern dance happening during that era, and a seminal article (with co-writer Peter Z Grossman) in Dance Scope Magazine entitled “Videodance”.
During the years that followed, Jeff worked with many of the major modern dance companies and choreographers in New York, both in routine documentation of their work on video, as well as experimental collaborations leading to dance works created specifically for video. Indeed, one of those has been featured in the Dance on Film Festival at Lincoln Center (2000) as well as numerous festivals across the United States and around the world. A number of these video pieces are viewable below.
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Videodance is a duet of dance and camera, a creation uniquely video. The image is a stream of compositions, each a perfect still, and the finished work is not a separate stream of dance movement and stream of camera movement, but a single unified movement creation. It is the transformation of human movement art into kinetic video composition.
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ARC Videodance Channel on Vimeo
