I don’t know if there is a better way to express this than with singing cats in this VJ-esque video.

After Vision’R 2011 success, focused on nomadic hybridations and local minorities cultures international resistances, for 2012 up to you to express your singularities and alterities, reactive or not to the geo-strategic actual contexts. Resistances and relative autonomies are both singularization sources.

Next Vision’R will take place around month of May 2012, with Paris days at the Mercoeur Center based on the May, 12 weekend.

Proposals reception period is open until December 5, 2011.

Read more on the VJ France Forum (English & French)

As ElectricKingDan pointed out earlier this week, it’s about time to apply for the 2012 edition of the Mapping Festival. This is what you need to know:

Your imagination is full of audiovisual projects? You have performances, installations, workshops or other audiovisual multidisciplinary projects to discover?

Submit your project to the Mapping Festival!
As every year our curatorial committee develops the Mapping Festival program through an open call for submissions.

For it, you have to submit a COMPLETE file and register on line on: www.mappingfestival.com

BEWARE: Mapping Festival 2012 call for entries start OCTOBER 18h TUESDAY until NOVEMBER 18th FRIDAY included.

Different categories:
- Clubbing: VJing / scenography / Set AV
- Audiovisual performance
- Installation / Exhibition
- Outdoor projection
- Workshop / Lecture / Software demonstration

Resolume 4 is due to be released as beta in two new versions on september 19, with a set of new exiting features such as advanced video mapping, soft edge blending, DMX input, SMPTE timecode input, auto pilot, etc.!

More info at resolume.com/software/whatsnew.php

CoGe v 1.0 (OSX) has been released and is no longer free. The creator made the decision to go commercial to be able to keep the project going. The software costs only $99 and is right on sale for $79 which is good bang for the buck.

The software has been reworked an now features arbitrary layers, effects, the mixer chain, native Syphon support and even a beat detector. CoGe supports Quicktime, Quartz Composer comps, Flash files and Collada 3D meshes and Core Image effects which makes it pretty damn powerful software. Go to the CoGe site to download the demo and purchase the program.

Garagecube has announced a bunch of minor updates and releases: Modul8 2.8.3, a new printed manual for Modul8, an on-line Modul8 module manual, Mad Mapper 1.0.3 and MadLabs, a series of small apps for MadMapper.

http://www.modul8.us/?p=812
http://www.modul8.ch/documentation/modules_manual/
http://www.madmapper.com/2011/08/08/mad_lab-and-more/

My first reaction: The MadLabs apps seems like a fun playful addition. I noticed that MadMapper’s slightly awkward masking tool didn’t get updated and there is still no (official) Syphon input in Modul8.


Do you have an old stereo, amplifier, casette player, vinyl player, speakers, tape recorder, analog projector or similar? That you don´t use? If that´s the case, we would really like to adopt your stuff and use it in our audio-visual sculpture H-A-C-K, which is exhibited at Färgfabriken 25 aug – 16 oct 2011!

Even if they´re not really working we want them anyway! We´ve hired a skilled guy to help us fix the stuff. So, you can become an art patron, how about that! And the reward is our forever lasting appreciation and being honourably mentioned at the exhibtion and at h-a-c-k.se/patron

If you can leave stuff at Färgfabriken, send an email to emilia [at] fargfabriken.se.  If Karlaplan or Skanstull suits you better, send an email to hakan [at] hakanlidbo.com.  If Bergshamra or Telefonplan suits you better, send an email to joel [at] joeldittrich.se. If Årsta suits you better, send an email andreas [at] repeatle.com.

As you probably understand “ [at] ” should be replaced with @

Thank you!

It’s the time of the year when Swedish VJs lay very low. We don’t have that many sun hours per year so we try to enjoy the little we have. So don’t expect too many post the next month or so.

Have a great summer!

The gates of a national film treasure opened today: The Archival Film Collections of the Swedish Film Institute. About 300 movies dating as far back as 1897 has been digitized and put up for public viewing on the web site. When will we see the first mashup using this archive material?

Note: a lot of the material is still under copyright. This page clearly states the regulations.

The French Iduun collective has finally released their eagerly awaited mapping module “MapMapMap” for Modul8. This module helps you with the perspective transformation, rotation of placements of layers as well as other useful functionality. Have a look at the documentation:

www.iduun.com/blog/2010/09/12/the-module-is-there-mapmapmap/

www.anomes.com/site/sticky/mapmapmap/

As a module maker myself, I must say that the Iduun collective makes some of the most interesting modules and they use techniques you don’t really know are possible to achieve within Modul8. If you’re in to Modul8, Python and module making be sure to look and learn from their code.