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		<title>Mad Mapper Workshop in Brussels</title>
		<link>http://www.vjunion.se/2011/10/mad-mapper-workshop-in-brussels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>VJ2MCH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So it&#8217;s been now one week since I participated in the Mad Mapper workshop that was held by 1024 Architecture&#8216;s François Wunschel and Modul8&#8216;s founder Boris Edelstein. I can&#8217;t stop coming up with new ideas for future projects after this so I felt I should enlighten those who don&#8217;t know about the software or the new [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So it&#8217;s been now one week since I participated in the <a href="http://todaysart.org/be/events/madmapper-by-modul8/" target="_blank">Mad Mapper workshop</a> that was held by <a title="1024 Architecture" href="http://www.1024architecture.net/" target="_blank">1024 Architecture</a>&#8216;s François Wunschel and <a title="Modul8" href="http://www.modul8.ch/" target="_blank">Modul8</a>&#8216;s founder Boris Edelstein. I can&#8217;t stop coming up with new ideas for future projects after this so I felt I should enlighten those who don&#8217;t know about the software or the new features it packs.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.vjunion.se/2011/10/mad-mapper-workshop-in-brussels/"><em>Click here to view the embedded video.</em></a></p>
<p>First of all these guys are funny as hell, especially Boris, and also very friendly and helpful. After a presentation of the both companies and their thoughts about mapping we got to see a presentation about <a title="Mad Mapper" href="http://www.madmapper.com/" target="_blank">Mad Mapper</a>. This software let you output video/images from any <a href="http://syphon.v002.info/" target="_blank">Syphon </a>supported application. The idea is very simple but yet very effective. It works in 2D layers that let you adjust the images to basically any form or angle. The program also has a very clever function that let&#8217;s you use your projector together with a SLR-camera as a scanner to get a perfect pixel per pixel mask of your projection area. This also let&#8217;s you work from home instead of staying for hours on location and setup your show, if you don&#8217;t move your projector that is. In the past this kind of setup would take hours if not days to get right. Now it just takes a few pictures and some photoshopping to get a good mask. We did it in less than 15 min. This program is really simple to use!</p>
<p>Here is a short video from the same workshop during the <a href="http://mappingfestival.ch/" target="_blank">Mapping Festival</a> this year.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.vjunion.se/2011/10/mad-mapper-workshop-in-brussels/"><em>Click here to view the embedded video.</em></a></p>
<p>Check out the videos of <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/the1024/videos" target="_blank">1024 Architecture on Vimeo</a> to get some inspiration.</p>
<p><a title="Mad Mapper" href="http://www.madmapper.com/" target="_blank">Mad Mapper</a> is still coming out with updates that adds new features, their philosophy is that they rather release new things a soon as they come instead of letting their users wait until they got everything sorted. Hence the<a href="http://www.madmapper.com/madlab/"> Madlab</a> which is a bunch of separate programs that adds a few tricks to <a title="Mad Mapper" href="http://www.madmapper.com/" target="_blank">Mad Mapper</a>.</p>
<p><a title="Modul8" href="http://www.modul8.ch/" target="_blank">Modul8</a>&#8216;s new update added the <a href="http://syphon.v002.info/" target="_blank">Syphon</a> support which lets you output via <a title="Mad Mapper" href="http://www.madmapper.com/" target="_blank">Mad Mapper</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://syphon.v002.info/" target="_blank">Syphon</a> also supports a bunch of other cool software like <a href="http://openemu.org" target="_blank">OpenEmu</a>, see why I can&#8217;t stop thinking of ideas&#8230;</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Audio-visual/VJ workshop @ Norbergfestival</title>
		<link>http://www.vjunion.se/2011/07/workshop-norberg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel Dittrich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will be conducting an audio-visual lecture and workshop featuring Modul8, at Norbergfestival in Norberg, Sweden, friday 29/7, 17:00-19:00 in the 8-Bit room. Participator need to bring her/his own Apple computer as well as buy a ticket to the festival, but the workshop is then for free. The festival ticket cost is 1000 SEK (three days) or 400 SEK [...]]]></description>
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<p>I will be conducting an audio-visual lecture and workshop featuring Modul8, at Norbergfestival in Norberg, Sweden, friday 29/7, 17:00-19:00 in the 8-Bit room. Participator need to bring her/his own Apple computer as well as buy a ticket to the festival, but the workshop is then for free. The festival ticket cost is 1000 SEK (three days) or 400 SEK (one day only). For further details see <a href="http://norbergfestival.com" target="_blank">norbergfestival.com</a></p>
<p>With support from the Audio-visual Production program at Högskolan Dalarna University College, <a href="http://www.du.se/audiovisuell" target="_blank">du.se/audiovisuell</a></p>
<p>About Modul8 at <a href="http://modul8.ch" target="_blank">modul8.ch</a></p>
<p><a href="http://modul8.ch" target="_blank"> </a></p>
<p><a href="http://modul8.ch" target="_blank"></a>About me at <a href="http://modul8.ch" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://joeldittrich.se" target="_blank">joeldittrich.se</a></p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Mapping worshop at Arvika Music Camp</title>
		<link>http://www.vjunion.se/2011/05/mapping-worshop-at-arvika-music-camp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2011 10:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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<p>The Midi Thief will be holding a video mapping workshop at the Arvika Music Camp and a live performance at Arvika's Tiki Room.</p>]]></description>
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I (<a title="The Midi Thief's home page" href="http://themidithief.com">The Midi Thief</a>) will be holding a video mapping workshop at the Arvika Music Camp. Saturday night I will be doing a live performance at the local Tiki Room with about 50% traditional projection and 50% video mapping. <a title="D-Nox &amp; Beckers home page" href="http://www.beckers-music.com/">Frank &#8220;D-Nox &amp; Beckers&#8221; Beckers</a> and <a title="ATMO's home page" href="http://atmotech.com/">Tomasz &#8220;ATMOS&#8221; Balicki</a> will handle the music.</p>
<p>Go to <a title="Arvika Music Camp on Facebook" href="https://www.facebook.com/ArvikaMusicCamp?sk=info">AMC&#8217;s Facebook page</a> for info on how to participate (in Swedish).</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Nino S på Belgrade of light</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The MIDI Thief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a title="Nino S profile page." href="/vjs-crews/vjs/visuals-by-nino-s/">Nino S</a> will do an audio-visual performance, lecture and VJ workshop at the <a title="Belgrade of Light" href="http://www.gradbeograd.eu/index.php?id=70&#38;lang=en">Belgrade of Light festival</a>, 9-16 september.</p>]]></description>
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<p><a title="Nino S profile page." href="http://www.vjunion.se/vjs-crews/vjs/visuals-by-nino-s/">Nino S</a> will do an audio-visual performance, lecture and VJ workshop at the <a title="Belgrade of Light" href="http://www.gradbeograd.eu/index.php?id=70&amp;lang=en">Belgrade of Light festival</a>, 9-16 september.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Pixelache 2010 festival report</title>
		<link>http://www.vjunion.se/2010/04/the-pixelache-2010-festival-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 23:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The MIDI Thief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>I was invited to the Pixelache festival to hang out and network. For once I didn't have to perform or give a speech, so I could fully indulge in all the activities that time and energy permitted during my three day long visit. That included a day long Bar Camp with a lot of talk about open source software, architectural video mapping, an Arduino workshop and some great VJ performances.</p>]]></description>
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<p>I was invited to the <a title="The Pixelache festival homepage" href="http://www.pixelache.ac/helsinki/festival-2010/">Pixelache festival</a> to hang out and network. For once I didn&#8217;t have to perform or give a speech, so I could indulge fully in the activities. I only went friday to sunday and got straight from the airport in to the <a title="Bar Camp on Wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_camp">Bar Camp</a> session at the <a title="Kerevan Taidemuseo" href="http://www.keravantaidemuseo.fi/press.htm">Keravan Taidemuseo</a> located in one of Helsinki&#8217;s outer suburbs. For those who are not familiar with the term &#8220;Bar Camp&#8221; I could describe it as a user generated conference where the content is provided by the participants, anyone can post a subject to discuss. This went on the whole day and several interesting discussions went on parallel, so it was pretty hard to pick. I went between groups dealing with guerilla gardening, software presentations, audio visual experiments and open source technologies. The day ended with the opening of two exhibition at the Kerava museum, How to Build a Dishwasher and chmod x+ art and later a Pixelache network dinner in Helsinki.</p>
<p>There were a couple of things from the Bar Camp that I found extra interesting. One is the open source project <a title="Link to Puredyne" href="http://puredyne.goto10.org/">Puredyne</a> which is a GNU/Linux package for artists. It&#8217;s an operating system bundled with a load of open source software for artists and the whole system is bootable from a USB stick or a CD and will run on your Intel machine.</p>
<p>The second thing was the project Brainwave Music Lab where they were making music from alpha and beta brain waves. I&#8217;m not going to tell more just watch the video, it give me the chills, you know, in a good way.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.vjunion.se/2010/04/the-pixelache-2010-festival-report/"><em>Click here to view the embedded video.</em></a></p>
<p>The Saturday started with Breakfast Club III, a breakfast with a discussion about open source technology led by cyber feminist Nathalie Magnan. It got pretty interesting, with many different views. There were the extremists looking for the utopian open source society, there was Li from Shanghai who explained how Open Source was not relevant for young people in China at the moment since people don&#8217;t think software costs money and then of course the people complaining that they will become less productive with Open Source applications. For me personally, the more interesting discussion about Open Source technology was on the boat back to the hostel where I came to speak to Italian design students, <a title="Emanuele Bonetti's page at the Piet Zwart Institute's homepage." href="http://pzwart.wdka.nl/networked-media/2010/01/03/emanuele-bonetti/">Emanuele  Bonetti</a> and Loredana Bontempi from the <a title="Piet Zwart Institute" href="http://pzwart.wdka.nl/networked-media/">Piet Zwart Institute</a> in Rotterdam, who are in a program that runs only on open source software. They said that they couldn&#8217;t really find good replacements for the standard design applications but they had other applications that let them do other things and take their designs in new directions. That sounded very appealing to me and we immediately started bouncing more or less realistic ideas.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2281" title="The Arduino + Fritzing workshop" src="http://www.vjunion.se/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/arduinofritzing-workshop.jpg" alt="The Arduino + Fritzing workshop" width="445" height="298" /></p>
<p>After lunch there was the Fritzing+Arduino workshop. <a title="The Arduino homepage" href="http://arduino.cc">Arduino</a> is an open source prototyping platform that makes it easy for artists and designer types like you and me to create physical interaction devices. <a title="The Fritzing homepage" href="http://fritzing.org/">Fritzing</a> is an application that let you document your electronic prototype and help you take it steps closer to production. I&#8217;ve been wanting to get in to the Arduino for a few years and this was the perfect time to get started. I bought the neat little starter kit from the Fritzing people that had an Arduino and some basic components.</p>
<p><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/10497522" width="445" height="250" frameborder="0"></iframe></p>
<p>At night I went to see The Urban Projection Lab, that was an architectural video mapping on the front of the Finnish National Theater. The environment was a little bit to lit up for my taste which made the projections a bit washed out. We actually walked past in without seeing it and had to circle the block. If I understand it correctly we saw a visualization of Helsinki&#8217;s energy consumption in form of bubbles going up the facade.</p>
<p>The night continued at IHME Party located at the Vanha Student House. The night started bad with some hipster DJ playing the a Finnish version of a Pippi Longstocking tune and drunken Finnish girls dancing awkwardly. BUT then came the Black Horse + <a title="Sakke Soini's homepage" href="http://www.sakkesoini.com/">VJ Sakke Soini</a> performance that was AMAZING. It&#8217;s rare to see such good band + visuals combination and they got the lighting and smoke to blend in as well. The band and the VJ had never worked together before and it was the band&#8217;s first live performance ever. One of those magic moments.</p>
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<p>I never got a chance to speak to Sakke Soini that night but emailed him to ask some questions.</p>
<p>(<span class="qaq">TMT</span>= The Midi Thief/Me, <span class="qaa">SS</span>=Sakke Soini)</p>
<p><span class="qaq">TMT</span>: Your style with, what looks like old optical experiments or maybe just fx part out of old sci-fi movies, is that found footage or have you created it yourself, or some combination in between? And how do you work with your compositions while VJ-ing?</p>
<p><span class="qaa">SS</span>: Yeah, they are all my creations. I utilize the same techniques I use for my illustrations. I create clips that are easy mix together a sort of a continuum of each other. Therefore it is really easy for me to mix dynamically during the performances, create dynamic changes quickly and with the music.</p>
<p><span class="qaq">TMT</span>: What hardware and software is involved in your creation process as well as the performance?</p>
<p><span class="qaa">SS</span>: Mostly I create my graphics with Illustrator and After Effects. During the performance I use Resolume 2.4 running on my Macbook through Bootcamp and a MIDI controller.</p>
<p><span class="qaq">TMT</span>: Why are you using Resolume 2.4 in Windows and not Resolume Avenue in OSX?</p>
<p><span class="qaa">SS</span>: I tested Avenue a bit when it came out on my white Macbook, but I didn&#8217;t see any point upgrading. The program was a disappointment. And why fix something that isn&#8217;t broken. But I do very little post-processing during my live show anyways. I mainly just adjusting the colors.</p>
<p><span class="qaq">TMT</span>: Your visuals works extremely well together with this music (Black Horse) but what music do you normally VJ to? And how does the look and the tempo of your graphics work then?</p>
<p><span class="qaa">SS</span>: I basically have two vjing styles. The one you saw and the other one is more vector based. For the more uptempo i use the vector based stuff. The clubs i normally VJ for is more Electro/Disco/Dubstep oriented.</p>
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<p>The second performance of the the night was Swedish <a href="http://www.smk.just.nu/">Slagsmålsklubben</a> and <a href="http://galakse.dk/">VJ Motorsaw aka Sune Petersen</a>, an awesome Danish guy that I shared rooms with at the Hostel on Suomelinna. The extremely happy uptempo music of Slagsmålsklubben seemed to work really well with this crowd and so did the visuals. Sune had a project set up in <a title="The VVVV homepage" href="http://vvvv.org/tiki-index.php">VVVV</a> that he based his whole performance on. It looks like vector lines but is really to slanted rectangles, one masking the other that he can tweak the shit out of with a <a title="The Korg Nano series" href="http://www.korg.com/nanoseries">Korg NanoKontrol</a>. I think that one quality that I particularly liked was the possibility of changing the stroke weight. This might seem trivial but I actually can&#8217;t remember seeing it used that much. It&#8217;s really useful for interpreting nuances in the music.</p>
<p>The classic after party for those who didn&#8217;t want to go home or those who couldn&#8217;t get back to Suomelinna took part at a design agency. Slagsmålsklubben, Sune Petersen the <a title="The Mal Au Pixel homepage" href="http://malaupixel.org">Mal Au Pixel</a> crew and others from the Pixelache network. All kinds of alcohol appeared auto-magically when some other alcohol ran out.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t think I really managed to do anything productive the following Sunday. There were a few performances I would have liked to have seen but I missed them and then had to leave for the airport.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Undervisning på Sigtuna Folkhögskola</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel Dittrich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Så här en månad innan jag och Martin Söderblom blir examinerade lärare i Konst, Design och Visuell Kultur, fick vi förfrågan om att hålla i två dagars undervisning i visuals på Sigtuna Folkhögskola. Det var givet att tacka ja då det är vår ambition att få in denna rika uttrycksform och breda studieämne i fler skolor, inte minst med tanke på potensialen för sociokulturellt lärande genom större samarbeten med t. ex. dans-, teater- och musikutbildningar.</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Så här en månad innan jag och Martin Söderblom blir examinerade lärare i Konst, Design och Visuell Kultur, fick vi förfrågan om att hålla i två dagars undervisning i visuals på Sigtuna Folkhögskola. Det var givet att tacka ja då det är vår ambition att få in denna rika uttrycksform och breda studieämne i fler skolor, inte minst med tanke på potensialen för sociokulturellt lärande genom större samarbeten med t. ex. dans-, teater- och musikutbildningar.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.vjunion.se/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/live_visuals_vastersalen_445.jpg" rel="lightbox[890]" title="Sigtuna Folkhögskola"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-902" title="Sigtuna Folkhögskola" src="http://www.vjunion.se/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/live_visuals_vastersalen_445.jpg" alt="" width="445" height="296" /></a></p>
<p>Första dagen började vi med att föreläsa om visuals; historia, kontexter där det förekommer, kort om några teoretiska bitar hämtade från VJam Theory [Realtime Books 2008], om hård- och mjukvara, fundamentala grunder såsom loopen som idé och &#8220;in the now&#8221; eller (non)time och 3.5 D som är mina egna uttryck/idéer. [Dessa redogör jag för i min C-uppsats "Live Visuals och VJ-ing", ej publicerad i skrivande stund.] Bl. a. visade vi Lightsurgeons/D-Fuse från DVDn som kommer med boken &#8220;VJ: audio-visual art + VJ culture” [Laurence King 2006] och min egen film “(Non)Time Will Tell / In 3.5 D” (2008) som är den konstnärligt gestaltande delen av mitt examensarbete.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.vjunion.se/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/sigtuna_08_vju_xx.jpg" rel="lightbox[890]" title="Sigtuna Folkhögskola"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-907" title="Sigtuna Folkhögskola" src="http://www.vjunion.se/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/sigtuna_08_vju_xx.jpg" alt="" width="445" height="296" /></a></p>
<p>Studenterna fick också en snabbintroduktion till Modul8, främst för att ha idéer för vad de senare skulle kunna göra med looparna de producerade under handledning resten av första dagen. De jobbade både enskilt och två och två. De filmade, redigerade och exporterade i rätt format och codec. Ett par jobbade med klassisk animation som lutade åt manga. En annan använde klipp filmade i sommras vid ett nedlagt tivoli i Berlin. Ett annat par experimenterade med att filma lysdioder och displayer.</p>
<p>Vi gav dem temat puls, vilket också är en del av begreppet Formless (G. Bataille), vilket jag och Martin själva jobbar med nu sista terminen på Konstfack.</p>
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<p>Under första dagen hade också jag och Martin tid att möblera om föreläsningssalen, rigga tre projektiorer, transparanta dukar och en TV, fyra datorer, videomixer, högtalare, installera Modul8 2.5, osv.</p>
<p>Dag två började med en djupare genomgång av Modul8. Var på vi drog igång ett VJam med live visual performance, som sedan pågick hela dagen, till några olika DJ-mixar med deep och progressive housemusik. Studenterna turades om att VJa live och många fortsatte jobba två och två då. Andra installerade demoversionen av Modul8 och satt med sin egen laptop och undersökte möjligheterna mjukvaran eller fördjupade sig i vår litteratur medan de köade till datorerna som var kopplade till mixern.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.vjunion.se/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/sigtuna_07_vju2.jpg" rel="lightbox[890]" title="Sigtuna Folkhögskola"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-908" title="Sigtuna Folkhögskola" src="http://www.vjunion.se/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/sigtuna_07_vju2.jpg" alt="" width="445" height="296" /></a></p>
<p>Vi valde att inte gå in på FreeFrame-filter och inte heller så mycket moduler utan höll oss till de mer fundamentala sakerna som A till B-mixning, LumaKey-ing (skapa transparanta lager), pixeleffekter, global BPM-kontroll (för att styra rörelser i takt till musiken), 3D-effekter animerade i realtid, för att undersöka det virtuella rummet i kompositionen/projektionen. Några studenter var intresserade av att kunna jobba på PC, varför vi också gav enskilda introduktioner till Resolume 2.4.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.vjunion.se/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/sigtuna_09_vju.jpg" rel="lightbox[890]" title="Sigtuna Folkhögskola"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-911" title="Sigtuna Folkhögskola" src="http://www.vjunion.se/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/sigtuna_09_vju.jpg" alt="" width="445" height="296" /></a></p>
<p>Vi blev väldigt glada över att Sigtuna Folkhögskola blev så pass intresserade, att de planerar att köpa in ett antal licenser för Modul8, i akademisk/utbildningsversion. Denna säljs vid köp av fem, tio eller tjugo licenser med 66% rabatt, vilket ger ett pris på ca 1000 kr st (ord. pris ca 3000 kr st).</p>
<p>Slutligen presenterade vi ett antal länkar för de som vill fördjupa sig och söka sig vidare t. ex. mötespunkten vjunion.se som jag är en av grundarna till och vjtheory.net som samlar den lilla mängd kvalificerad teoretisk text som finns om samtida visuals/VJ-ing. Vi tipsade om videokonst/musik klubben fLiM och festivalerna New Media Meeting och Norbergfestivalen där jag kommer agera curator för ett treårigt visuals-projekt med både svenska och internationella performances. Mer om det i kommade inlägg!</p>
<p>Här citerar jag några ord från den skriftliga utvärdering studenterna fick göra:</p>
<p>&#8220;Jag tycker den här workshopen varit både intressant, lärorik och bara så kul. /&#8212;/&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It was awesome.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;BRA! <img src='http://www.vjunion.se/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> &#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Bra med mycket praktik och &#8216;hands on-tänkande&#8217;. Ni ger positiv och bra energi. /&#8212;/&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Det var kul. Något ovanligt som man aldrig har provat förut, men tekniken skrämde mig lite. Känns som att man måste kunna en del om datorer för att det ska kännas bra.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I stort sett mycket roligt. Det enda mindre bra skulle väl vara att vi inte hade mer tid. /&#8212;/&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Det var kul som f*n! Grymt kreativt och det var ganska lätt. Det fanns hur mycket olika grejer att göra som helst! Det var helt nytt för mig och därför blev jag så fascinerad. Kommer eventuellt fortsätta med det här om jag kan. /&#8230;/ TACK!&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;..Kul och jättespännande med att lägga på en massa olika effekter på bilderna som man hade lagt in i programmet och det blev roligare med musik <img src='http://www.vjunion.se/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> . Skulle gärna behövts fler dagar och hålla på med det, skulle säkert lärt oss att använda mer effekter. Men jättekul som sagt <img src='http://www.vjunion.se/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> .&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;/&#8212;/ Tack så mycket för att ni skapade bra stämning! Det var liksom riktig studio!!&#8221;</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>VJ-workshop på Konstfack</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 07:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel Dittrich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>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.</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>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.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.vjunion.se/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/010_x.jpg" rel="lightbox[571]" title="The Light Surgeons"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-579" title="The Light Surgeons" src="http://www.vjunion.se/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/010_x.jpg" alt="" width="445" height="296" /></a></p>
<p>Vi började med att se några filmer från DVDn som följer med boken &#8220;VJ: audio-visual art + VJ culture&#8221; [Laurence King 2006].</p>
<p><a href="http://www.vjunion.se/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/002_x.jpg" rel="lightbox[571]" title="Modul8 2.5"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-581" title="Modul8 2.5" src="http://www.vjunion.se/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/002_x.jpg" alt="" width="445" height="296" /></a></p>
<p>Därefter följde en genomgång av grundläggande funktioner och möjligheter i Modul8 2.5.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.vjunion.se/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/acephale1.gif" rel="lightbox[571]" title="Documents"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-583" title="Documents" src="http://www.vjunion.se/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/acephale1.gif" alt="" width="220" height="313" /></a></p>
<p>Temat var<em> formless</em> &#8211; 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 &#8220;Documents&#8221; 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.</p>
<p>Detta gör <em>formless</em> intressant att ha som utgångspunkt under en VJ-workshop i en akademisk kontext. Kanske man kortfattat kan säga att begreppett <em>formless</em> handlar om att ifrågasätta vad som egentligen är &#8220;hög konst&#8221;, om nu något alls kan vara det i vårt efter-postmodernismen-samhälle&#8230;? <em></em></p>
<p><em>Formless</em> 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.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.vjunion.se/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/005_x.jpg" rel="lightbox[571]" title="Hands on"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-580" title="Hands on" src="http://www.vjunion.se/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/005_x.jpg" alt="" width="445" height="296" /></a></p>
<p>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!</p>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>Tack till Martin Söderblom för foto och den spontana genomgången av Resolume 2.4.</p>
<p>Stay sharp!</p>]]></content:encoded>
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