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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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The first version of iMixHD by VJ Fader and VJ Leo has just been released. This software controls the TvOne 1t-c2-750 dvi mixer that we have been raving so much here on the blog. We were lucky to try the beta which had pretty limited functionality and now the guys have added some more controls.

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