April 28, 2011
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eMotions

eMotions

I discovered this software through the Syphon project’s Twitter. It’s a a tool for creating interactive motions of objects for live visual performances.

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April 26, 2011
CATEGORY: Education

Course on Final Cut at Konstfack

Final Cut

Do you feel like taking part in a beginners course on Final Cut, the number one video editing software for Macs? It´s held at Konstfack, 13-17 june 09:00-17:00, by the very skilled Andreas Gaunitz. This course is for free if you are a Swedish citizen and the instruction language is Swedish. It gives you 1,5 [...]

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April 23, 2011
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Draw live with TagTool at SPX 2011

TagTool

Cartoonist Tinet Elmgren and artist/illustrator/vj Ilan Katin (also known as the community man from Garagecube) will present TagTool at the Small Press Expo (SPX) 2011. TagTool is a DIY kit for drawing and animating live. Come and see how it works and try it out.

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April 13, 2011
CATEGORY: event, festival

SWElectronica 2011 (Russia)

SWElectronica

SWElectronica 2011 2nd festival of swedish electronic music feat. Goto80, Random and Raquel Meyers will take place on 30 April – 4 May 2011. Join us in Moscow, St.Petersburg and Petrozavodsk! 30th.04 – Squat Cafe, Moscow 01st.05 – Tsokol, Petersburg 02sd.05 – Porshen, Petrozavodsk <<<< Facebook event here

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April 06, 2011
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The new Twitch controller

The new Twitch controller

Novation has just announced the Twitch controller that has been developed together with Serato. It’s a hybrid of a conventional DJ controller and controllers made for softwares like Ableton Live. It has also been inspired by the Monome and the controller hacking communities.

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April 01, 2011
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VJs on the radio

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So it’s time for VJs on the radio again. The Swedish radio show Ström (P2) has dedicated a whole show to the VJ scene. The interviews were carried out by Hanna “Knivflickan” Kihlander a few months ago and has now been edited together to a fabulous show with electronic music between the interviews. The show [...]

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March 25, 2011
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Syphon Recorder

The Syphon Recorder beta was released earlier this week. This is a new app in the Syphon family for OSX and it does exactly what it sounds like: it records video from any Syphon abled application and it also records sound from your source of choice.

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March 19, 2011
CATEGORY: Education TAGS: ,

Time to apply to Audio Visual Production, 180 ECTS

Audio Visual Production

It´s about time to apply to the cutting edge program Audio Visual Production, 180 ECTS! It´s given at Högskolan Dalarna University College in Falun, Sweden (instruction language is Swedish). This education teaches you the practices as well as theories needed to work as a professional in emerging fields such as audio visual art and communication, [...]

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February 12, 2011
CATEGORY: lecture

Must-see lecture/discussion in Stockholm

Image from Quayola's Strata series called Strata #1 - Rome

This is a must-see lecture/discussion in the series From another point of view about the moving image with Torben Meier, Daniel Bergmann and Quayola.

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February 12, 2011
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Real-time motion tracking with Isadora + Kinect

Bodyscapes by AfterMe

We did a similar experiment when the Swedish VJ Union gathered for our January Tech Show & Tell session. It wasn’t as advanced and beautiful as this experiment and we had no naked volunteers.

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