The 5th edition of the Mapping Fesival will take part on may 8-17 in Geneva, Switzerland. It’s Garagecube, the creators of the VJ software Modul8 that hosts the festival. This year the theme is to take the projections to the streets of Geneva. Beside the main theme: lectures, workshops, performances, installations and club gigs.
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Huge christmas day party at Berns
On christmas day there will be a big party at Berns where Lysbang and visuals by nino will represent with projections in the main salon to the tunes of Axwell & Alex Lewerentz.
Did you say wide screen?
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.
Steim releases Junxion v4 for OSX
I haven’t used JuXion for quite a while, but today I got an email from Steim saying that JunXion has been updated to version 4 and that they have added support for a lot of techniques: MIDI, OSC, HID (joysticks, mice, touch screens), audio, Arduino and video tracking.
VJ Central is back again
I just noticed that they’ve got VJ Central back up and running and this time they are using the Drupal platform. We just have to hope that it won’t get hacked again. This is the version 3 beta and you can’t accuse the site for being good looking but all the old good features seems to be in there.
Videos from Piksel ’08
Here are some videos from lectures, performances and workshops from the Piksel ’08 fesitval (member of the Pixelache network) that went down in Bergen december 4-7.
Mobile collaborative live video
Last spring me and Hinke Berggren did a VJ demo and discussion at the Interactive Institute in connection to the kick start of Arvid Engström’s project “Mobile Collaborative Live Video Production”. Dejakru has also been involved when Arvid later did interviews with VJs regarding how we work in live situations. The first reports are now available for download.
The Interactive Institute’s 10 year anniversary
On wednesday december 3 the Interactive Institute celebrated their 10 year anniversary with a big party at Enskilda Galleriet that I had the honor to produce. Together with a party committee from the institute we created a really successful evening.
More video mapping
Here is a reel from Neoproj with more video mapped projections. Not bad at all. It’s a french company that offers a commercial version of video mapping.
Chambertronica featuringInstructions & Vidiots
Instructions & Vidiots are co-operating doing visuals for Chambertronica, a project where three electronica musicians and three chamber musicians collaborates in 7 compositions.