AntiVJ, the kings of video mapping, will be presenting a new audiovisual piece directed by Romain Tardy at the Norrköping Visualiseringscenter this upcoming saturday (May 29th). The Vidiots will also feature something they call a “video sculpture”.

“Projecting immaterial information (data) on something very concrete and real (a building) is also an opportunity to think about the relationship between intangible and pratical work, statistics and factual, labour and its finality, which are all very current questions about our dematerializating world.”

Read all about the event on Facebbook.

I’m in Yokohama for Siggraph Asia. I’m helping out with a demo of Instant Broadcasting System, a software for live mixing of videostreams from mobile cameras. We’re in the Emerging Technologies section, if any one is stopping by. I will write more about the software later but first I thought I’d share this Christmas tree from Queen’s Square, Yokohama. Our boss, Oskar, voted it best in show (a bit premature since Siggraph hasn’t started yet and the tree is not part of the exhibition in any way).

This installation at Heineken’s Green Room Sessions party at Malmen, Stockholm, is a was a group effort. Jakob Grandin, head of Grandins Flying Circus asked the Vidiots to set up a triple screen video installation displaying film and photography from a number of artists. One wall displayed a slideshow and the other two video. Every 8th second a strobe went off the movies and the slideshow changed.

The gear used in this project was 3 projectors, a Triplehead2go and a Macbook Pro running Modul8 (VJ software). A Modul8 module, that was programmed specially for the occasion by The Midi Thief, sent a midi signal to a DMX light board causing the strobe to flash and the video plus slideshow to forward to the next piece.

Contributing artists:
Curator – Tony Cederteg
Left wall – Ruben Broman
Middle wall – Mathias Sterner
Right wall – Nakkna

So I went to this vase party at Nordic Light Hotel last week. Iittala was showing off their vase “Lantern” by Harri Koskinen in a two piece video installation called “Light Reflections” by the Vidiots.

The first piece was a 4:3 projection on a screen (and on a sequence of monitors in another room) portraying light shooting through the the glass surface while the vase turning on a rotating foundation going in and out of focus.

In the second piece they had vases put up on a wall and video overlapping the vases so that it looked as if streams of light were shooting up from the vases. This was the more spectacular of the two even if the “analog quality” of the first one was nice too.

The students in NYU’s Big Screen class shows their exam projects on a 120 foot wide video wall in the IAC building on Manhattan’s west side. This is totally worth checking out.