It’s time for Pixelache Helsinki again and this year the Vidiots and CJ Rosén will be representing Sweden at the festival. It’s not too late to jump on the boat or catch a flight. The program looks really interesting – see for yourselves. Hopefully the boys will give us a report on what went down.

The next edition of the french Mal Au Pixel festival is being held in St-Ouen on may 29 – june. The program will be nailed sometime by the end of february, so there is still time to apply. Mal Au Pixel is part of the Pixelache network.

The Swedish VJ Union is not a booking agency. To book a VJ or a VJ Crew that is a member of the union, please contact each artist through their profile pages.

The 5th edition of the Mapping Fesival will take part on may 8-17 in Geneva, Switzerland. It’s Garagecube, the creators of the VJ software Modul8 that hosts the festival. This year the theme is to take the projections to the streets of Geneva. Beside the main theme: lectures, workshops, performances, installations and club gigs. Last day for applications is january 26, every thing you need to know is here.

Keep this in mind: The Mapping Festival is pretty close to Pixelache, Helsinki (April 2-5) and will probably clash with the New Media Meeting in Norrköping that is scheduled to take part already in may this year.

On christmas day there will be a big party at Berns where Lysbang and visuals by nino will represent with projections in the main salon to the tunes of Axwell & Alex Lewerentz.

Read more about the event on Berns’ home page or the party’s Facebook event.

Instructions & Vidiots are co-operating doing visuals for Chambertronica, a project where three electronica musicians and three chamber musicians collaborates in 7 compositions. The first performance will take place in Uppsala  Concert Hall on november 27. Read more about Chambertronica here.

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!

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.

VJ Union @ New Media Meeting
In the last moment it was finalized that VJ Union will be represented at this year’s edition of the New Media Meeting. Mikael Wehner (Instructions), Linnea Forslund a.k.a. Morrsken and Joel Dittrich (Svaj, I <3 AG Studios) are the ones who will be VJing back to back on friday september 19 11pm – 3 am on the main floor.

From newmediameeting.se

NEW MEDIA MEETING is an annual international media art festival taking place in Norrköping, Sweden. The festival premiered in 2006 and is devoted to innovative works and projects in electronic art, media, music and visualization. In only two years NMM has become one of the most important media festivals in the Nordic Region – attracting an impressive line-up of renowned and upcoming international artists on the Media art and electronic music scene.

NEW MEDIA MEETING invites to a dialogue between a wide range of artists, media activists and academics working within the realms of digital art and culture. With a focus on current trends, research and technologies, the festival encourages interdisciplinary discussion and participation.

NEW MEDIA MEETING visualizes the current state of arts and media during 2 days and 2 nights. The days are crammed with inspiring lectures, seminars, workshops and talks. The nights are a celebration of performing arts with VJing, DJing, installations, performances, showcases and hands on DIYing. NMM presents an extraordinary assembly of international artists, media workers and a broad public attendance, all in a dynamic and intimate atmosphere.

NEW MEDIA MEETING is arranged by the non-profit organization Resistans in collaboration with Interactive Institute, Citilab and Norrköping Science Park. The festival is also promoted and sponsored by the Municipality of Norrköping, Regional Development Council Östsam and Destination Norrköping.

THEME

This years lucid thematic focal point PLAY is originated from the idea that when work isn’t fun the results often tends to be minimal. By focusing on the process of play, New Media Meeting 3 analyzes the very idea that playful creativity and meaningful work can be combined, not only to improve development but also to obtain superior results.

The naive but sincere thesis was put to the test by the curators of NMM 3. The work, or play if you prefer, of the topics 2008 was executed in an extremely playful fashion. A stack of scribbled notes with names, places, beliefs, thoughts, personal favourites, public information, statistics, wishes and even other wanted curators written on each one became the foundation of NMM 3. Channelized in an array of discussion, negotiation, bargaining and elimination, the consequence of these actions resulted in these semi-themes:

Interactive architecture, socio-digital marketing, surveillance, artificial emotions, future fashion and the digital playground today.

These topics are to guide, or misguide, the guests, participants and audience in the jungle of threads at New Media Meeting 2008, but above all to celebrate the concept of PLAY in method, style and idea. New Media Meeting 2008 will commemorate the differences and similarities to deliver another standard of excellence, composing a platform for creative exercises that pushes beyond the boundaries for all local, national and international practitioners of all ages alike.

Lets play!

We had a gig at a LG party together with the club Ficks at F12 last week. A drunk buddy succeeded in the art of poring beer in to our Evolution UC33 midi controller. Anders noticed that it started to behave a bit strange and that the faders were wet. He yanked the usb cord quickly and turned it upside down to dry on top of a t-shirt. I tried the UC33 again a couple of days ago and it worked as normal. Apparently it had been worse if it had been wine, Coke or salt water. What gear and what fluids have you combined with a good result?