When we’re still working on the first report from the VJ jam our brazilian friend and VJ colleague, Bete Rum, already wrote a report on her blog.
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The article in it’s original format.
Tonight it’s the season premiere of Kristoffer Karlssons club fLiM at Nordic Light Hotel. We are looking forward to many cosy wednesdays with ambient music and video projections.
fLiM on MySpace
Nordic Light Hotel
Be there or be square pixels!
The poll covering what softwares we’re using is over. Modul8 and Resolume are the favorites among the named applications, but what softwares are hiding among the anonymous? And what do you thing is out standing in the softwares that your are using? Use the comments to reply.
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Before the VJ jam we gave an interview for Metropol – Ute. Participants from the union were: Micke Wehner, Roberto “La Noche” Peyre, Joel “The video artist” Dittrich and our guest from Brazil, Bete Rum. A big thanks to Rasmus Almerud at Metropol who’s spreading the vibe to the people!
Sveriges Radio stores their programs for 30 days. Click here to find the interview, pick 18:30-19:00!
Förra måndagen höll jag i en VJ-workshop i Svarta Havet på Konstfack. Deltagarna var precis som jag själv, blivande Konst- och Medialärare som nu studerar 5:e och sista året.
Vi började med att se några filmer från DVDn som följer med boken “VJ: audio-visual art + VJ culture” [Laurence King 2006].
Därefter följde en genomgång av grundläggande funktioner och möjligheter i Modul8 2.5.
Temat var formless – precis som i vår ordinarie kurs, utifrån teorier av fransmannen George Bataille (1897-1962), som var filosof och författare. Han var 1929-1930 redaktör för tidskriften “Documents” som blandade konst, arkeologi, etnografi och populärkultur på ett sådant sätt att koventionella idéer om det så kallade primitiva och det så kallade ideala omkullvältes. Bataille motsatte sig den akademiska världen och dess idé om ett system med en allomfattande ordning och mätbarhet.
Detta gör formless intressant att ha som utgångspunkt under en VJ-workshop i en akademisk kontext. Kanske man kortfattat kan säga att begreppett formless handlar om att ifrågasätta vad som egentligen är “hög konst”, om nu något alls kan vara det i vårt efter-postmodernismen-samhälle…?
Formless har 1996 av Rosalind Krauss och Yves Alain-Bois delats in i fyra kategorier: låga material, horisontalitet, puls och entropi. Live visuals/VJ-ing förhåller sig ofta till alla fyra, precis som man också kan relatera live visuals/VJ-ing till samma områden som det skrevs om i Documents.
Hur som helst, det är alltid spännande att sätta verktyg i händerna på någon som aldrig använt dem. Vi använde mobilkameror för att filma råmaterial, gjorde några korrigeringar i Final Cut och blandade upp med live feed från en DV-kamera. Mot slutet av dagen blev det en hel del aha- och wowupplevelser, vilket glädjer mig mycket!
Självklart visade jag även vjunion.se och kan redan nu tipsa om att öppna workshops kommer anordnas så småningom. Håll koll på bloggen för info.
Tack till Martin Söderblom för foto och den spontana genomgången av Resolume 2.4.
Stay sharp!
It’s time for this year’s edition of the VJ jam that will be hosted by the Swedish VJ Union in co-operation with Pixelvärk and Berns.
The event takes place friday october 17 11pm – 4am at the club 2.35:1 at Berns.
Participating VJs/VJ crews:
BeteRum (Brazil), Dejakru, Fetish23, I <3 AG Studios, Instructions, Kirves, La Noche, Morrsken, Refekation, Sim On Wall, Startsladd, Vidiots, visuals by nino s
The DJs are:
DJ Jethro, Håkan Lidbo, Adrian Lux & Oscar Wedrén (half of Le Choix).
Also be sure to check out Pixelvärk’s other events on saturday and sunday.
All ways are good except the bad ones. I was at a friend’s birthday party the other night and he had made a simple and funny backprojection solution. The party was held at an office and in one of the smaller rooms they had a big glass window facing the big big main room. On the glass window they had taped two paper table cloths and projected video from within the little room with a normal office projector. The quality was quite okay with exception from the visible line in the middle where the table cloth had been taped together.
We cruised down to Stockholm Zoo’s party at Berns last friday to check out Richie Hawtin and his über digital techno set (he runs two laptops, a Allen & Heath-mixer and some midi madness). Dejakru were doing the visuals. With the help from Tobe Joelsson and his cellphone camera we succeeded in documenting a few clips. It’s grateful to be able to project onto such a huge screen. Go Dejakru!
Please enable Javascript and Flash to view this Blip.tv video.Ana and Brendan from VJ Theory asked us to spread this through our network. The book that is printed on the print-on-demand service Lulu costs only $13.70 and is available for downlowd for $5.44. You can also read the text for free at VJ Theory’s homepage.
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At last the book VJam Theory: Collective Writings on Realtime Visual Performance is ready and available for purchase. For those of you who don’t know, the book is the outcome of our third experiment in collective theoretical writing, VJam Theory. You will find on the website the necessary information to buy the book online: http://www.vjtheory.net/realtime_books/vjam_theory.htm
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Stanton will soon be releasing the SCS.3d, a muti-touch MIDI controller at the wallet frienly price of $299. It would be nice to see what this control could do for a VJ. We will see if we can can get our hands on a SCS.3d for testing.
There is a good report at Future Music (I really recommend to subscribe to their news letter if you want to get the latest news about new midi controllers), so it feels unnecessary to write more here. There is also more info at Stanton.
There are more products within the same SCS range: The midi dj mixer SCS.1m and the player SCS.1d which are also looking delicious. For people making music, the SCS.1m also has a built in FireWire sound card. But what makes me happy as a VJ is that both units seems to have 4 endless encoders. But I don’t believe it until I see it with my own eyes.
