I am usually pretty quick at publishing news about the Mapping festival in Geneva. This time however, due to a heavy workload, I am extremely late but I hope the news will make some people happy. The Mapping Festival is closely tied to Garagecube, the makers of the VJ software Modul8. But you don’t have to be a Modul8 user to attend to or perform at the festival. The festival is known to be well organized and display high quality work. Read Startsladd’s report from the last festival to get an idea what they are all about.

Here’s the info from Gäelle Amoudruz at the Mapping festival:

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The open call of submissions to the Mapping Festival 2011, from May 19 to 29th in Geneva, Switzerland. If you have had any ideas now is the time to share them with us! The festival promotes the concept of mixed disciplines and will accept  proposals for the following categories:

  • VJing
  • Audio Visual performances
  • Installations
  • Lectures/Workshops/Presentations/Demos

The application is available on our web site: www.mappingfestival.com.
Be mindful that the deadline for submissions is November 20th, 2010.

We are looking forward to receiving your submissions!
Mapping Team

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Here’s a video from the Opening night of the 2010 edition of the festival:

[vimeo width=”445″ height=”250″]http://vimeo.com/16274584[/vimeo]

Published by The MIDI Thief

I started VJing in 2003 after being introduced to the topic by my friend, the digital artist, Marius Watz. “My style can be expressed as intensively colorful compositions with rhythm based animations of images and particles combined with a modest amount of video loops. I try not to continuously fill upp the whole screen with graphics in an attempt to illuminate the feel of a square screen. I work mostly with my own material that occasionally gets mixed up with stuff from the lost and found department. I like programming my own modules for Modul8, my favorite VJ software.”