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Mark Ridder, a brave 3rd year Interactive/Media/Design student from the Royal Academy of Arts in the Hague wrote to the Swedish VJ Union to promote his show:
“Crowd VJ is an interactive visual show where visuals are defined through movement. You only need to bring your favorite light source and the visuals are generated for you while dancing. Easy as that! No vj is involved anymore, just party.”
Nothing says Merry Christmas like Slayer and some sequenced christmas lights. With courtesy of my old Instructions colleague Anders Carleö.
I was surfing some VJ related sites when I came across a few DIY projects that I really liked. The one I fell for instantly was the securing of the Firewire 800 connector to an ethernet cable.
Ben Cook (Synthetics) and I went to the VJ Festival in Erlangen, Germany, to perform with our act Instructions. It’s a new festival that I became aware of when they contacted the Swedish VJ Union about half a year ago, right in the backwaters of the Visual Berlin festival scandal. What started up as a small festival became a pretty big one with 8 VJs, 11 A/V live acts, 3 movie screenings, 7 installations and 9 DJs.
I’ve been very exited about the new possibilities that are opening up with Syphon, the new revolutionary open source technology for Mac OSX by Anton Marini (Vade) and Tom Butterworth (Bangnoise). There has been a lot of talk about it lately but it was not until this week Syphon came out in Public Beta that everyone can download and try out for themselves.
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.
Skynoise just published some interesting stats on Google search terms related to VJing.
The French Iduun collective has finally released their eagerly awaited mapping module “MapMapMap” for Modul8.
Nino S will do an audio-visual performance, lecture and VJ workshop at the Belgrade of Light festival, 9-16 september.
The “Nordic Council Film Prize 2010 – Remixed” competition invites creative artists, filmmakers and VJs from the Nordic countries to reinvent and remix material from the 5 nominated films in an original and creative way. Read more about the competition on Facebook. The competition rules are here and the trailers can be found on Vimeo.
